{"id":92042,"date":"2023-08-26T08:50:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T08:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/?p=92042"},"modified":"2023-08-26T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T08:50:43","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-forced-to-change-in-sunday-league-dressing-room-for-al-nassr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/soccer\/cristiano-ronaldo-forced-to-change-in-sunday-league-dressing-room-for-al-nassr\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo forced to change in ‘Sunday league’ dressing room for Al-Nassr"},"content":{"rendered":"
Football fans were in stitches after seeing where Cristiano Ronaldo and his Al-Nassr team-mates had to change.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo led his side to a 5-0 victory away at Al-Fateh last night (August 25), scoring a hat-trick and also providing a delightful backheel assist for one of Sadio Mane's two goals.<\/p>\n
Fateh aren't as financially backed as a lot of their Saudi Pro League competitors, including the four owned by the nation's near-bottomless Public Investment Fund – Nassr, Hilal, Ahli and Ittihad.<\/p>\n
And that showed in their away dressing room, which was just an empty room filled with bog-standard chairs where Ronaldo and Co's kit was laid out.<\/p>\n
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Reacting to a clip of it being posted on social media, one fan joked: "I thought the Saudi league was rich." Another questioned: "In Saudi??? This can\u2019t be right."<\/p>\n
"Ronaldo getting changed in a conference room there," commented a third, while a fourth wrote: "Spend millions on players and salaries but can\u2019t do the same for something as simple as a dressing room."<\/p>\n
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A fifth echoed: "All that money on wages and their dressing room doesn\u2019t even come close to a Sunday league dressing room."<\/p>\n
"This is non-league football," argued a sixth. And a Manchester United supporter pointed out: "Imagine going from thinking the MUFC facilities were bad to this…"<\/p>\n
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The result was Nassr's first league win of the season having lost their opening two games away at Steven Gerrard's Al-Ettifaq and at home to Al-Taawon – which could have been even worse had a fan not reminded their goalkeeper the game had started.<\/p>\n
That 2-0 defeat left Ronaldo seething, and he was seen shoving away a fan who tried to get a selfie with him post-match. But he was back to his best against Fateh and managed to complete his treble in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n