{"id":4410,"date":"2025-05-06T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/the-heir-to-the-throne-cristiano-jr-debuts-with-portugal-under-15\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:43:23","slug":"the-heir-to-the-throne-cristiano-jr-debuts-with-portugal-under-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/the-heir-to-the-throne-cristiano-jr-debuts-with-portugal-under-15\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heir to the Throne: Cristiano Jr. Debuts with Portugal Under-15!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0506%2Fr1488880_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6994\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. has been called up to represent Portugal in the under-15 category.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s eldest son, known as Cristiano Ronaldo J\u00fanior, has been selected to join Portugal&#8217;s under-15 team. This will be his first participation in an international tournament to be held in Croatia.<\/p>\n\n<p>The young player&#8217;s outstanding performances in the Al Nassr academy have not gone unnoticed. The coach of the Portuguese U-15 team, Jo\u00e3o Santos, has included the 14-year-old forward in the list of 22 players called up.<\/p>\n\n<p>His father, Cristiano Ronaldo, who holds the record for the all-time leading international goalscorer with 136 goals and the most appearances with 219, expressed his joy.<\/p>\n\n<p>The captain of the Portuguese national team shared his pride in his son&#8217;s call-up on Instagram, writing: &#8220;Proud of you, son!&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/stories\/cristiano\/3626486997585143594\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The captain of the Portuguese national team shared his pride in his son&#8217;s call-up on Instagram, writing: &#8220;Proud of you, son!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The Vlatko Markovic tournament will take place from May 13th to 18th, and in it Portugal will face Japan, Greece, England, and a fourth opponent yet to be determined.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, who turned 40 on February 5th, expressed his desire earlier this year to play alongside his son before retiring.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I would like to play with my 14-year-old son, but we&#8217;ll see, it depends more on me than on him.<\/p><cite>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. has been called up to represent Portugal in the under-15 category. Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s eldest son, known as Cristiano Ronaldo J\u00fanior, has been selected to join Portugal&#8217;s under-15 team. This will be his first participation in an international tournament to be held in Croatia. The young player&#8217;s outstanding performances in the Al Nassr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[968,969,607,970],"class_list":{"0":"post-4410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo-jr","9":"tag-portugal","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-u15"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}