Cristiano Ronaldo: Captain and leadership at the beginning of his journey in search of records in Arab football

“I came to break records”, he warned as soon as he set foot on Arab soil to close the best contract that a footballer could sign in history: 200 million euros per season until 2025 according to the Diario Marca. And in his first official match, he already began to fulfill his task. Cristiano Ronaldothe man of challenges, did not score on his debut as an Al Nassr player, but he was captain in the 1-0 over Al Ettifaq. A result that puts the yellow box as the leader with 33 points, one more than André Carrillo’s Al Hilal.

The Portuguese came to al nassr in early January, but was facing a two-game ban for throwing his phone at an Everton fan in a Premier League match when he was playing for Manchester United. Those gray days are over and CR7 saw the light after a long time.

In fact, he played a few days ago in the Riyadh Season, the friendly agreed between the paris saint germain of Messi and a team of Al Nassr and Al Hilal -the two best teams in Arabia-. The attacker was the great figure by scoring a brace (Lionel scored one) despite his team’s 5-4 defeat.

Away from the elite of European football, where he left his indelible mark for almost two decades, Cristiano Ronaldo He is in Arabia with the sole objective of breaking all possible records. Are there? Of course there are! Some obviously hard to reach; others closer. But the Portuguese will not stop until he achieves it. Here we review each one:

Top scorer in a season

Officially created in 1975, the Saudi league has Al Nassr as the first champion and the one that had in its ranks the man who has the record for goals in a single season. His name is Abderrazak Hamdallah, the Moroccan who played in the 2022 World Cup in which his team finished fourth.

thus winning the record held by the Arab Hamzah Falatah from 1999-2000 when he scored 33 goals with Al Ittihad Jeddah.

Christian he will need to score 35 goals, either this season or next, to break a new record. The downside is that the current campaign is almost half over: Al Nassr beat Al Ettifaq on date 14 of 30. Although the Portuguese already knows what it is to exceed 34 goals in a single campaign. In fact, he did it four times, all with Real Madrid: 2010-11 (40), 2011-12 (46), 2014-15 (48) and 2015-16 (35).

Top scorer in the Asian Champions League

Cristiano Ronaldo He is currently the all-time goalscorer in the Champions League. There have been 140 celebrations that have put his name at the top of the best tournament in the world at club level. However, in the Asian Champions League the number is much lower, something that the Portuguese can take advantage of.

Let’s remember that Al Nassr is the leader this season in the Saudi League with 33 points. If they qualify, they will be able to play the top Asian tournament and seek to be the top scorer of all time in the Champions League on two different continents.

Goalscorer history of Al Nassr

One of the main records that could achieve Cristiano Ronaldo with Al-Nassr he is the club’s top scorer in all of history. The ‘Bug’ must score 113 goals in these 2 years to be able to overcome Abderrazak Hamdallah, who has 112 goals. A difficult figure to reach, obviously, but the Portuguese will try to get as close as possible to enter the top 5.

• Abderrazak Hamdallah: 112 goals
• Mohammed Al-Sahlawi: 105 goals
• Talisca: 35 goals
• Giuliano: 31 goals
• Hassan Al Raheb: 30 goals

All-time top scorer in the Saudi Pro League

If we refer to being the all-time top scorer in the Saudi League, the number to beat is the 144 goals scored by Syrian footballer Omar Al-Somah. Although the mark seems to be complicated, let’s remember that ‘CR7’ already knows what it is to surpass this record, since with Manchester United he reached 145. Below we show you the first 5 places:

• Omar Al-Somah: 144 goals
• Nasser Al-Shamrani: 109
• Abderrazak Hamdallah: 93
• Mohammed Al-Sahlawi: 88
• Bafetimbi Gomis: 81