Ronaldo failed to bring championships during current season

Cristiano Ronaldo, the international legend of Al-Nassr Club, failed to bring home any championships and trophies during the current season. This was the fourth time, the Portuguese star went out without winning any titles in a season since the beginning of his brilliant professional football career.

Al-Nassr failed to clinch the Saudi Professional League title from Al-Ittihad Jeddah, which in turn emerged as Roshn Saudi League champions after defeating Al-Feiha 3-0 in the 29th round of the competitions on Saturday evening.

Ronaldo arrived in Riyadh in January after being released from his contract by English Premier League powerhouse Manchester United and had to settle for second place in the 16-team Saudi Arabian league. Al-Nassr’s 1-1 draw with Ettifaq meant that Al-Ittihad’s 3-0 win at Al-Feiha gave the team from Jeddah a five-point lead with one game remaining and its first league title since 2009, and thus ending Ronaldo’s first season in Saudi Arabia without a trophy.

Ronaldo began his career with the first team of Sporting Lisbon in the 2002-2003 season during which Sporting Lisbon had won the Super Championship. In the following season he moved to Manchester United where he won the English FA Cup.

Ronaldo went out without winning any tournaments for the first time in the 2004-2005 season, after losing the Community Shield title to Arsenal 3-1, and Milan surpassed it at the cost of the European Champions League final with 2-0 in the aggregate of the two matches, and Manchester United finished the league in third place behind Arsenal and Chelsea Mourinho. Man United finished runner-up in the FA Cup after being defeated by Arsenal in the final.

Ronaldo was crowned with eight tournament titles after this season until he moved to Real Madrid in the 2009-2010 season, but he went out again without tournament titles for the second time in his career in the first season with the Spanish giant.

Ronaldo was part of the eight deals concluded by Florentino Perez, president of the Spanish club, to overcome the upper hand made by Barcelona in the previous season.

Ronaldo scored 26 goals in 29 matches in the Spanish League in his first season, but his team finished the championship race behind Barcelona with three points, and the Portuguese faced two embarrassing eliminations from the Champions League against Lyon in the round of 16, and from the Corconas in the King’s Cup in the round of 32.

Ronaldo spent the most successful period of his career with Real Madrid after this season, winning 16 different championships, including four Champions League titles, before moving to Juventus.

Ronaldo had spent three seasons with the Bianconeri during which he crowned it with five championships, before announcing an emotional return to Manchester United for the 2021-2022 season. The team won the League and Confederation Cups at the hands of West Ham and Middlesbrough,

respectively, and finished sixth in the league.

In the current season, Ronaldo terminated his contract with the English team in November 2022, after which he joined Al-Nassr during the last winter transfers, and lost the league title to Al-Ittihad, in addition to Al-Nassr’s elimination from the semi-finals of the Super Cup and the King’s Cup against Al-Ittihad and Al-Wehda respectively.