FIFA thanks Cristiano Ronaldo and remembers the six Worlds

A FIFA today left on social networks a thank you to the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who abandoned the Portuguese national team, and marked the six World Championships in which Madeira participated and marked the service of Portugal.

“Thank you, Cristiano”, reads on the social network X, on FIFA’s official website for the Worlds, in a publication in which an image appears with two Ronaldos, one still wearing Portugal’s sweater ’17’, referring to participation in its first World Championship in 2006 in Germany, and another already with the ‘7’ and the captain’s armband, which took place recently at World Cup2026, in the United States, Mexico and Canada.

At the feet of the two, on a lawn, appear six balls, each referring to each World Championship in which the advanced participated and also scored. The now former captain of the national team was also in World2010, South Africa, World2014, Brazil, World2018, Russia, and World2020, Qatar.

Ronaldo is the only player in the history of the competition to score in six editions and shares with Lionel Messi, who also recently said goodbye to Argentina, the record for more presences.

Madeira was in 27 World Championships games and, in the World Cup2026, reached 11 goals, surpassing Eusébio's record, which was nine since 1966.

The 41-year-old forward Cristiano Ronaldo announced today the withdrawal of the Portuguese football team, through a video released on his social networks, on the eve of being known those called for the last two games of the qualifying phase of the League of Nations.

World recordr of games by selections, with 234 internationalizations ‘AA’, and goals, with 146, Cristiano Ronaldo has as high points of career in the selection the conquest of Euro2016, in France, as well as two editions of the League of Nations, in 2019 and 2025, after becoming European runner-up in Euro2004, held in Portugal.

On September 30, the advance dropped out of the Portuguese team stage on the eve of the match against Denmark, the League of Nations, in Copenhagen, at the beginning of the Jorge Jesus cycle in the technical command of the selection.

Ronaldo, who was a titular with Wales and an unused alternate with Norway, revealed that Jesus missed the floor more than once and that he therefore decided to leave the internship on his own initiative, a decision that cost him a 30-day sentence, already fulfilled, and a fine of 255 euros.

The last game by the team of 'quinas' ended up being the triumph against Wales (1-0) played on 24 September, on the first day of the A4 Group of the League of Nations, at the José Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, more than 23 years after the premiere on 23 August 2003, in Chaves, in a particular front of Kazakhstan.

The last goal with the Portuguese jersey was scored in the triumph against Croatia (2-1), in the 16th years of the World War2026 final, on July 3rd, in Toronto, Canada, by converting a major penalty.