As per multiple reports, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr have tabled a world-record bid of €200m per season to lure Cristiano Ronaldo to wear their yellow and blue until June 2025. The Portuguese, who is entirely focused on his world cup campaign, has not made any decision.
Following Ronaldo’s interview with Piers Morgan, Manchester United and the 37-year-old had mutually parted ways, making the latter a free agent.
With the race to sign Ronaldo officially on, the first moves have been made by the Saudi club. Let’s know more about Al-Nassr who want to bring Ronaldo to the Arab country.
Who are Al-Nassr? And who manages them?
A very successful club in Saudi Arabia, Al-Nassr feature in the Saudi Pro League (SPL), which is the country’s top-tier men’s domestic football league.
Nicknamed Faris Najd, which translates as the Knights of Najd, Al-Nassr play their football in Mrsool Park in front of 25000 fans in the city of Riyadh.
They currently sit second in the league standings after eight games, three points shy of Al-Shabab. Last season, Al-Nassr finished third in the SPL while they were kicked out of the King Cup and the AFC Champions League by Al-Hilal, one of their main domestic rivals.
Six players out of the 26 representing Saudi Arabia in Qatar don the yellow and blue of Al-Nassr in SPL, including defenders such as Sultan Al-Ghanam, Abdulelah Al-Amri, and Abdullah Madu.
As of now, the club are managed by the French Rudi Garcia, who has previously managed Roma, Marseille and Lyon, and is best known for winning a domestic double with Lille in 2010-11. The merry-go-round of managers has been however a constant at Al-Nassr. Since 2000, they’ve chopped and changed 42 permanent managers plus two interims.
Al-Nassr Club Profile
According to the club’s old website, “Al-Nassr was established in 1955 by the brothers Husein and Zeid Al-Ja’ba in their house on Al-Ataif Street in Riyadh.” It functioned as an amateur entity till it was registered with the General Presidency of Youth Welfare in 1960. The club achieved promotion to the first division in 1963.
Yellow and blue, the colours of the club, are inspired by the environment of the country and symbolise the vast, golden sand in the Arabic deserts and the exquisite water in the Arabian seas respectively.
Al Nassr are one of the most successful clubs in Saudi Arabia, having won the league on nine occasions – only behind Al-Hilal’s tally – with the most recent triumph coming…
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