Ronaldo intends to boycott Al-Nasr's match with Al-Riyadh

Cristiano Ronaldo, the striker and captain of the Saudi football club Al-Nasr, intends to miss the team's next match against Riyadh, scheduled for February 2. The publication A Bola wrote about this the day before the meeting.

"Cristiano Ronaldo is unhappy with the management of the club, for which he has been playing for three years, carried out by the State Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), mainly in comparison with how things are with rivals, also managed by the same fund," the article says.

The athlete complained that investments in the club were declining, while 21-year-old Haidir Abdulkarim, the midfielder of the team, received the only transfer window. It is noted that two Portuguese work in the management structure of Al-Nasr: Simao Coutinho (sports director) and Jose Semedo (CEO), but their powers were frozen at the beginning of the month by decision of the board of directors.

Last year, on December 31, it was reported that Ronaldo ended 2025 without a hat-trick for the first time in the last 15 years. In total, the player scored 41 goals this year. It is specified that during his football career, Ronaldo scored 66 hat-tricks, 56 of them for clubs and 10 for the Portuguese national team. According to the portal, the series of annual hat-tricks began with the football player in 2009.

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