{"id":10463,"date":"2023-12-12T07:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=10463"},"modified":"2023-12-12T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:23:49","slug":"ronaldo-hits-50th-goal-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/12\/ronaldo-hits-50th-goal-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Hits 50th goal in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 50th goal for club and country in 2023 as Al-Nassr defeated Al-Shabab 5-2 in the quarter-finals of the King&#8217;s Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>The Portuguese superstar netted in the 74th minute after strikes from team-mates Seko Fofana, Sadio Mane and Abdulrahman Ghareeb, with Mohammed Maran also getting himself on the scoresheet in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Ronaldo has been on fire in the Saudi Pro League this season, the 38-year-old scoring 16 goals and registering eight assists in 15 appearances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo scored and provided an assist in Al-Nassr&#8217;s 4-1 victory over Al-Riyadh \u2014 the Portuguese forward&#8217;s 1,200th professional match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Ronaldo broke the deadlock after 31 minutes to notch his 16th goal in 15 outings this season, cementing his spot as the Saudi Pro League&#8217;s top scorer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>The 38-year-old posted on social media: &#8220;Three more points! Thankful to all my team-mates who helped me reach my 1,200th match. What a ride but we&#8217;re not done yet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Saudi Pro League sporting director Michael Emenalo would be delighted to welcome Lionel Messi to the division, despite being snubbed for Major League Soccer earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Emenalo said: &#8220;The reasons that he ended up in MLS is something that I don\u2019t have answers to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;If he decides next season that he wants to come here, we will be happy to welcome him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 50th goal for club and country in 2023 as Al-Nassr defeated Al-Shabab 5-2 in the quarter-finals of the King&#8217;s Cup. The Portuguese superstar netted in the 74th minute after strikes from team-mates Seko Fofana, Sadio Mane and Abdulrahman Ghareeb, with Mohammed Maran also getting himself on the scoresheet in stoppage time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ronaldo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}