{"id":24761,"date":"2025-05-27T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=24761"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:48:34","slug":"ronaldo-declares-end-of-al-nassr-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=24761","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo declares end of Al-Nassr journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo indicated that he could leave Al Nassr after declaring that a \u201cchapter is over\u201d hours after the Saudi Pro League finished. The 40-year-old Portuguese forward joined Al Nassr in 2022 from Manchester United and his contract with the Saudi club ends this summer. A special transfer window runs from June 1-10 to allow the 32 clubs involved in the Club World Cup to sign players. Al-Nassr aren\u2019t at the Club World Cup unlike fellow Saudi side Al Hilal. FIFA president Gianni Infantino last week said \u201cthere are discussions\u201d over the former United, Real Madrid, Juventus and Sporting Lisbon star playing at the enlarged tournament in the United States starting on June 14. \u201cThis chapter is over,\u201d Ronaldo cryptically said on social media with a photo of him in an Al Nassr shirt. \u201cThe story? Still being written. Grateful to all.\u201d Al Nassr lost in the semi-finals of the Asian Champions League last month to Japan\u2019s Kawasaki Frontale and finished third in the Saudi Pro League. Ronaldo was the league\u2019s top goal scorer on 24. Last year, the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner said he could end his career with Al Nassr. Ronaldo\u2019s great rival Lionel Messi will play at the Club World Cup with Inter Miami. During a recent interview with YouTuber and streamer IShowSpeed, Infantino said: \u201cAnd Ronaldo might play for one of the teams as well at the Club World Cup. \u201cThere are discussions with some clubs, so if any club is watching and is interested in hiring Ronaldo for the Club World Cup\u2026 who knows, who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo indicated that he could leave Al Nassr after declaring that a \u201cchapter is over\u201d hours after the Saudi Pro League finished. The 40-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24762,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}