{"id":561668,"date":"2026-08-13T10:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=561668"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:14:08","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-set-to-miss-2-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-set-to-miss-2-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo set to miss 2 matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> DUBAI<br \/>\nAl-Nassr captain Cristiano Ronaldo, who celebrated getting married in his native Portugal on Tuesday night, is set to miss the club\u2019s first two matches of the new season, Arabic daily newspaper Arriyadiyah has reported. For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport<br \/>\nAccording to the publication\u2019s sources, Al-Nassr will begin the 2026-27 Saudi Pro League campaign against Al-Fateh on Saturday, and three days later face Al-Diriyah in the Round of 32 of the King Cup.<br \/>\nAnge Postecoglou\u2019s team will now be without Ronaldo for both matches, which are scheduled to be played in Riyadh. After an extended break following his participation in the 2016 World Cup, Ronaldo has already missed Al-Nassr\u2019s preseason training program.<br \/>\nThe Portuguese star was given extended leave by new Australian coach Postecoglou and used his time off to marry Argentine model Georgina Rodriguez, his long-time partner. 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For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport According to the publication\u2019s sources, Al-Nassr will begin the 2026-27 Saudi Pro League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cristiano Ronaldo set to miss 2 matches<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-set-to-miss-2-matches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cristiano Ronaldo set to miss 2 matches\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DUBAI Al-Nassr captain Cristiano Ronaldo, who celebrated getting married in his native Portugal on Tuesday night, is set to miss the club\u2019s first two matches of the new season, Arabic daily newspaper Arriyadiyah has reported. 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