{"id":48187,"date":"2026-05-22T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48187"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:48:08","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-brace-fires-al-nassr-fc-to-saudi-pro-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/cristiano-ronaldo-brace-fires-al-nassr-fc-to-saudi-pro-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo brace fires Al Nassr FC to Saudi Pro League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, May 22:<\/strong> Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice as Al Nassr FC stormed to the Saudi Pro League title with an emphatic 4-1 victory over Damac FC on the final day of the season on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The win secured Al Nassr\u2019s 11th league crown and their first Saudi Pro League title since the 2018\/19 campaign, ending years of waiting in style.<\/p>\n<p>At Al Awwal Park, Al Nassr produced a dominant display with goals from Sadio Man\u00e9, Kingsley Coman and Ronaldo, who delivered a clinical second-half brace. Morlaye Sylla scored the only goal for Damac.<\/p>\n<p>Man\u00e9 gave the hosts the breakthrough in the 34th minute before Coman doubled the lead seven minutes into the second half. Damac briefly threatened a comeback after Sylla converted from the penalty spot in the 58th minute, but Ronaldo responded in superb fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese star restored Al Nassr\u2019s two-goal cushion in the 63rd minute before putting the result beyond doubt with his second goal of the night in the 81st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Al Nassr finished the season on top of the table with 86 points from 34 matches, while Damac ended 16th with 29 points and were relegated.<\/p>\n<p>It was also Ronaldo\u2019s first-ever Saudi Pro League title since joining Al Nassr, adding another major trophy to his glittering career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, May 22: Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice as Al Nassr FC stormed to the Saudi Pro League title with an emphatic 4-1 victory over Damac FC on the final day of the season on Thursday night. The win secured Al Nassr\u2019s 11th league crown and their first Saudi Pro League title since the 2018\/19 campaign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48190,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187\/revisions\/48190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}