Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr, we’re here now. After having negotiated exremis with Olympique Marseille and Eintracht Frankfurt, the Portuguese champion seems to have definitively accepted the transfer to Saudi Arabia. Cristiano is currently in Dubai, waiting to fly to Riyadh to sign the very rich contract that will bind him to Al Nassr until 2025: for him, between engagement and various sponsors, 200 million euros per season are ready.
But which team will CR7 find in the Saudi Pro League? Fresh from a 2-0 victory against Al Adalh (yesterday in the King Cup), Al Nassr is one of the most successful and most supported clubs in Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1955, at national level it has won 9 national championships, 6 King of Champions Cups, 3 Saudi Prince Crown Cups, 3 Prince Faysal Bin Fahd Cups and a Saudi Super Cup, while internationally it has won a Saudi Super Cup. Asia, an AFC Cup Winners’ Cup and 2 Gulf Champions’ Cups, as well as participating in the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship.
Today the gialloblù coach is an old acquaintance of Italian football such as Rudi Garcia, who since last July has achieved six victories, a draw and a defeat in eight overall matches, with an average points of 2.38 points per game and a game proposal convincing. In the squad of the former Roma there are some noble foreigners such as the Brazilians Luiz Gustavo and Talisca or the Cameroonian striker Vincent Aboubakar, or the Spanish defender Alvaro Gonzalez, without forgetting the other great ex Serie A: David Ospina, who in the summer he greeted Naples precisely to defend the goalposts of Riyadh’s club. The preferred formation is 4-2-3-1 and, in all likelihood, Cristiano will play the role of top left winger or center forward if necessary. To guide Al Nassr towards what is the literal meaning of his name: victory (“Nassr”, in fact, in Arabic).
