Ronaldo scored but the team still lost
Ronaldo has yet to win any championship with Al Nassr, except for the unofficial Arab Club Champions Cup trophy in 2023. While the current 2024-2025 season is the final season of the 39-year-old's contract with the Saudi Arabian team.
Ronaldo is always favored at Al Nassr Club
The dependence and necessity of placing Ronaldo at the heart of the team is partly responsible for Al Nassr's decline. Before the presence of this Portuguese star, the team had won the Saudi Pro League (in 2019) and won the Saudi Arabian Super Cup twice in 2019 and 2020.
This happened again at the beginning of the 2024-2025 season, with all the focus on Ronaldo so that this famous player could score regularly, but the team's overall performance was still zero, continuing to cause the team's decline to not stop.
Al Nassr lost the Saudi Arabian Super Cup to Al Hilal (losing 1-4 in the final), despite Ronaldo scoring in the semi-final and opening the scoring in the final. In the Saudi Pro League, they only won 1 and drew 2 matches. In the Asian arena, Al Nassr opened the campaign with a 1-1 draw against Al Shorta (Iraq) in the group stage of the AFC Champions League on September 17.
Coaches leave one after another because they can't compete with superstar CR7.
When Ronaldo arrived at Al Nassr, coaches Rudi Garcia, Dinko Jelicic and most recently Luis Castro all left one after another. The paradox is that these coaches, out of respect for Ronaldo's reputation, always had to choose a style of play that focused on the 39-year-old star. In most matches, Ronaldo was always the central figure. The other players on the field were almost all there to serve CR7, because the attacking directions were all aimed at the Portuguese striker.
Building a style of play with Ronaldo as the "center of the universe" to avoid upsetting this player, is the reason why Al Nassr failed and the coaches had to leave. Strong clubs like Al Hilal easily read Al Nassr's style of play to predict and win the match.
During more than a year and a half of playing in Saudi Arabia, Ronaldo and Al Nassr's encounters with the top clubs here have not been able to achieve satisfactory results.
However, for Al Nassr's leadership, simply when the team does not play well it is the coach's fault. Ronaldo's position in the team is inviolable.
The recent event was quite unusual, when Al Nassr issued a statement criticizing a very famous YouTuber in Saudi Arabia - Abu Omar - for mocking Ronaldo in the team's locker room. Abu Omar made a gesture of putting his hands on his ears like the famous player Messi celebrating a goal right in front of Ronaldo's position in the locker room when he visited Al Nassr Club. Al Nassr's leadership was annoyed and quickly issued a statement criticizing the action of YouTuber Abu Omar, which was considered to anger Ronaldo. The story shows that Ronaldo's power in Al Nassr is extremely large, covering every aspect of the team.
To please Ronaldo, Al Nassr has just appointed a new coach - Mr. Stefano Pioli, an Italian, former coach of AC Milan, to lead the team with a contract until the end of the season and an extension for the next year. Mr. Stefano Pioli won the Serie A (Italy) championship with AC Milan in 2022.
The first challenge for coach Stefano Pioli is to lead Al Nassr to face Al Ettifaq - the team ranked 3rd in the Saudi Pro League on September 21. This match is likely to see Ronaldo return to play after a recent absence due to illness.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/quyen-luc-cua-ronaldo-o-al-nassr-18524091923345568.htm
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