{"id":24109,"date":"2026-02-22T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=24109"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:44:12","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-portuguese-star-says-he-is-still-committed-to-al-nassr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=24109","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo: Portuguese star says he is still committed to Al-Nassr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cristiano Ronaldo says he is happy at Al-Nassr following doubts over his future at the Saudi Arabian club.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 41-year-old Portuguese had reportedly been unhappy with how the club were being run by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and missed three recent games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c178dk11lgqo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">returned last week<\/a> and after scoring twice in Saturday&#8217;s 4-0 win over Al-Hazem, which sent his side one point clear at the top of the Saudi Pro League, insisted he wanted to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy,&#8221; the Portugal international told Saudi broadcaster Thmanyah. &#8220;As I say so many times, I belong to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a country that has welcomed me very well, and my family and my friends. I&#8217;m happy here, I want to continue here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The most important thing is we keep pushing [for the league title], we are there at the top. We do our job, we win, make pressure, let&#8217;s see at the end of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ronaldo<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/63805297\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> moved to the Middle East in December 2022<\/a>, shortly after his contract with Manchester United was terminated by mutual agreement, becoming the best-paid player in football history with an annual salary of \u00a3177m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But since his arrival, the 10-time league champions have only won the 2023 Arab Club Champions Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s win saw them move one point ahead of Al-Hilal and they are also into the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwy8x9n9w8lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo says he is h&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}