{"id":8879,"date":"2026-03-07T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/ronaldo-to-travel-to-spain-for-hamstring-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:15:01","slug":"ronaldo-to-travel-to-spain-for-hamstring-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/ronaldo-to-travel-to-spain-for-hamstring-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo to travel to Spain for hamstring treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published16 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo will travel to Spain for treatment on a hamstring injury that is &quot;more serious&quot; than first thought.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old forward, who has scored 21 goals in 22 games this season in the Saudi Pro League for leaders Al-Nassr, was substituted in a 3-1 win against Al-Fayha on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier missed a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the side&#x27;s match against Neom on Saturday, Al-Nassr coach Jorge Jesus said Ronaldo would visit Madrid where &quot;he will need treatment from his personal physiotherapist&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In the last game, Cristiano left with a muscle injury. After the tests he underwent, it became clear that it is a more serious injury than we were expecting,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He will need rest and recovery. We hope he will return soon to help the team.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the five-time Ballon d&#x27;Or winner will be fit to play in Portugal&#x27;s friendlies against Mexico on 29 March and the United States on 1 April.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, who has scored 965 career goals, has <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy070d71xj3o\">said he will not retire until he notches his 1,000th.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His injury comes a month after he returned to the Al-Nassr side having missed three games amid doubts over his future with them.<\/p>\n<p>He had reportedly been unhappy with how the club were being run by Saudi Arabia&#x27;s Public Investment Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/63805297\">moved to the Middle East in December 2022,<\/a> shortly after his contract with Manchester United was terminated by mutual agreement <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/63619074\">following an interview in which he criticised the club.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The switch saw him become the best-paid player in football history with an annual salary of \u00a3177m and he signed a new two-year contract in June.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/c178dk11lgqo\">\n<p>Ronaldo makes goalscoring return to Al-Nassr<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published14 February<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8e6y90g2jo\">\n<p>Follow your club with BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published17 October 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln\">\n<p>Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o\">\n<p>Get football news sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 August 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronaldo to travel to Spain for hamstring treatmentImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Cristiano Ronaldo was taken off in the 70th minute of Al-Nassr&#x27;s match on SaturdayPublished16 minutes ag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}