{"id":370851,"date":"2024-02-26T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=370851"},"modified":"2024-02-26T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:03:17","slug":"ronaldo-slammed-investigated-over-gesture-to-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=370851","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo slammed, investigated over gesture to crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> has come under heavy criticism after seemingly making an offensive gesture following Al Nassr\u2019s 3-2 victory over Al Shabab in a Saudi Pro League match.<\/p>\n

Footage posted on social media appeared to show the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or<\/a> winner cupping his ear and repeatedly thrusting his hand forward near his pelvis, seemingly aimed at rival Al Shabab supporters, after the match.<\/p>\n

In the background, chants of \u201cMessi\u201d could be heard.<\/p>\n

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Argentina star Lionel Messi is Ronaldo\u2019s longstanding football rival.<\/p>\n

While the incident was not captured by television cameras, criticism of the 39-year-old Portugal striker has been swift and local media reports say that the Saudi football federation (SAFF) has opened an investigation.<\/p>\n

\"Cristiano<\/p>\n

He could face a suspension, potentially jeopardising his availability for Al Nassr's next match \u2014 against Al-Hazem on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo, who completed a lucrative move to the Riyadh-based club in December 2022, has a league-leading 22 goals this season.<\/p>\n

His latest came against Al Shabab when he opened the scoring with a first-half penalty before Brazilian Talisca\u2019s late double \u2014 including a goal four minutes from time \u2014 secured the win for Al Nassr.<\/p>\n

Al Nassr trails fellow big-spending rival Al Hilal by four points, having played a game more.<\/p>\n

Al Nassr is also in contention for the Asian Champions League \u2014 a tournament it has never won \u2014 and will play Al-Ain of the United Arab Emirates in the quarter-finals next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo has come under heavy criticism after seemingly making an offensive gesture following Al Nassr\u2019s 3-2 victory over Al Shabab in a Saudi Pro […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370855,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370851\/revisions\/370855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}