{"id":106,"date":"2026-08-21T20:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/ronaldo-scores-on-al-nassr-return-to-close-in-on-1000-goals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:44:27","slug":"ronaldo-scores-on-al-nassr-return-to-close-in-on-1000-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Scores on Al-Nassr Return to Close in on 1,000 Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Cristiano Ronaldo made his return to Al-Nassr action in style, scoring as his side cruised to a <strong>4-0 victory over Al-Riyadh<\/strong> in the Saudi Pro League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The Portuguese superstar was named among the substitutes but was introduced after the interval as Al-Nassr looked to complete a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Ronaldo wasted little time making an impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Just 21 minutes after entering the pitch, the veteran forward found the net, scoring in the 83rd minute to complete the scoring and take his career tally to <strong>977 goals<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The goal leaves Ronaldo just <strong>23 strikes away from 1,000 career goals<\/strong>, a landmark that has become one of the defining targets of the final stage of his playing career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The forward had entered the new season with 976 career goals after his involvement with Portugal at the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">His goal against Al-Riyadh therefore marked his first competitive goal for Al-Nassr this season and another step towards the extraordinary milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">At 41, Ronaldo continues to demonstrate his ability to influence matches despite being carefully managed by Al-Nassr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">His latest appearance also comes during a season in which the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner has indicated could potentially be his final campaign in professional football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo made his return to Al-Nassr action in style, scoring as his side cruised to a 4-0 victory over Al-Riyadh in the Saudi Pro League. The Portuguese superstar was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7J_NDA:productID":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trendsmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_1023.jpg?fit=1236%2C927&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}