Cristiano Ronaldo has rarely been a player to absorb frustration quietly. Across club and international football, his reactions have often become part of the story, alongside the goals and the silverware.<\/p>\n
One of the most talked-about moments came in a World Cup qualifier against Serbia, when Ronaldo believed he had scored a late winner after getting to the ball before the goalkeeper. Stefan Mitrovi\u0107 then cleared it from clearly behind the line, but with no VAR available the referee allowed play to continue. Ronaldo reacted with visible anger, threw his armband to the ground after being booked for dissent, and later wrote on social media: \u201cThere are difficult times to deal with, especially when we feel that an entire nation is being harmed.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was not the first time his armband became a casualty of frustration. In a 2010 friendly against Spain, Ronaldo produced a superb finish that should have stood, only for Nani to head in from an offside position. The goal was disallowed, and Ronaldo responded by making a strange little dance on the spot before dropping his armband to the grass. Portugal still won 4-0, though the decision clearly did little to calm him.<\/p>\n
There was also his reaction during a league match for Real Madrid against Almer\u00eda in the closing stages of the 2014-15 season. \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa scored from a cross when Ronaldo had been positioned at the back post and ready to add to his own tally. While the rest of the side celebrated, Ronaldo smashed the ball back into the net in anger.<\/p>\n
His Manchester United return in 2021 also produced an ugly moment. After a 1-0 defeat away at Goodison Park, Ronaldo was filmed swiping a phone from a young fan\u2019s hands as he walked down the tunnel. He later received a two-match ban and was cautioned by the police.<\/p>\n
The 2022 World Cup brought another difficult chapter. Ronaldo scored once from the penalty spot in the group stage, then reacted badly when substituted in a 2-1 defeat to South Korea. Fernando Santos later said, \u201cI didn\u2019t like it, not at all. I didn\u2019t like it.\u201d Ronaldo was then left out against Switzerland, where Gon\u00e7alo Ramos scored a hat trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ronaldo\u2019s outbursts have become part of his legacy, from armband throws to World Cup frustration and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[59,178,180],"class_list":["post-21409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-featured","tag-friendly","tag-player-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}