{"id":40137,"date":"2024-07-04T20:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-uefa-urged-to-punish-cristiano-ronaldo\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T20:04:25","slug":"euro-2024-uefa-urged-to-punish-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-uefa-urged-to-punish-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: UEFA urged to punish Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo could face punishment from UEFA amid accusations of \u2018ambush marketing\u2019 during their Euro 2024 clash against Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo\u2019s heart rate data after the last 16 fixtures was published by the wearable fitness technology company, WHOOP.<\/p>\n<p>WHOOP has Ronaldo as an investor and a brand ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old could be seen wearing a WHOOP device under a bandage on his left wrist, from which the company obtained his heart rate data.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo and WHOOP are not official UEFA sponsors at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-head of global sponsorships at Visa and Coca-Cola, Ricardo Fort, has now urged UEFA to fine them over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis chart has been circulating today,\u201d Fort wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCristiano and WHOOP is ambush marketing to Euro 2024. It is illegal and both the player and the company should be fined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: UEFA urged to punish Cristiano Ronaldo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo could face punishment from UEFA amid accusations of \u2018ambush marketing\u2019 during their Euro 2024 clash against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5556,2713,15,160,2543],"tags":[1279,5561,2716,180,2467,3821,201,2548,17102],"class_list":["post-40137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cristiano-ronaldo","category-euro-2024","category-news","category-sport","category-uefa","tag-1279","tag-cristiano","tag-euro","tag-news","tag-punish","tag-ronaldo","tag-sport","tag-uefa","tag-urged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137","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=40137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}