{"id":39630,"date":"2024-07-02T06:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-i-was-at-rock-bottom-when-portugal-needed-me-most-cristiano-ronaldo\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T06:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:04:28","slug":"euro-2024-i-was-at-rock-bottom-when-portugal-needed-me-most-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-i-was-at-rock-bottom-when-portugal-needed-me-most-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: I was at rock bottom when Portugal needed me most \u2013 Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted that he was at the rock bottom when his team needed him the most.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo spoke following his side\u2019s Euro 2024 Round of 16 win over Slovenia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>His penalty was saved in extra time with the last-16 tie goalless.<\/p>\n<p>However, just 15 minutes later, the Al-Nassr forward stepped up to the same spot to fire in the first of Portugal\u2019s shootout kicks.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper, Diogo Costa then made Euros history with three penalty shootout saves to send Portugal to the last-8.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Ronaldo said: \u201cEven the strongest people have their [bad] days. I was at rock bottom when the team needed me the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadness at the start is joy at the end. That is what football is. Moments, inexplicable moments. I feel sad and happy at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the important thing is to enjoy it. The team did an extraordinary job. We fought right to the end and I think we deserved it because we had more authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: I was at rock bottom when Portugal needed me most \u2013 Cristiano Ronaldo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted that he was at the rock bottom when his team needed him the most.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5556,2713,15,160],"tags":[1279,8,19578,5561,2716,2098,17535,180,3406,10255,3821,201,888,3349],"class_list":["post-39630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cristiano-ronaldo","category-euro-2024","category-news","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-bottom","tag-cristiano","tag-euro","tag-most","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-portugal","tag-rock","tag-ronaldo","tag-sport","tag-was","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}