Ronaldo's power at Al Nassr

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 season 2024 - 2025 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 putting Ronaldo at the heart of the team is partly the reason for Al Nassr's decline. Before the presence of this famous Portuguese player, the team had won the Saudi Pro League (in 2019) and won the Saudi Super Cup twice in 2019 and 2020.

This happened again at the beginning of the 2024 - 2025 season, focusing all attention 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 Super Cup to Al Hilal (lost 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 played out a lackluster 1-1 draw with 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 playing style that focused on the 39-year-old player. In most matches, Ronaldo was always the central figure. The other players on the field were almost all 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 offending this player, is the reason why Al Nassr failed and the coaches had to leave. Strong potential clubs like Al Hilal Club can 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 the Al Nassr leadership, simply when the team does not play well it is the coach's fault. Ronaldo's position in the team is untouchable.

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 dressing 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 dressing 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 have angered 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 next year. Mr. Stefano Pioli won the Serie A (Italy) championship with AC Milan in 2022.

Coach Stefano Pioli's first challenge 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