{"id":10847,"date":"2025-11-24T12:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=10847"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:31:29","slug":"ronaldo-40-scores-spectacular-bicycle-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sports\/ronaldo-40-scores-spectacular-bicycle-kick\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo, 40, scores spectacular bicycle kick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) \u2013&nbsp;<\/em>Cristiano Ronaldo rolled back the years with a spectacular overhead bicycle kick for Saudi side Al Nassr in a 4-1 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Best caption wins!&#8221; the 40-year-old Portuguese international wrote on X after his 96th-minute wonder strike on Sunday home to Al Khaleej.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emphatic victory in Riyadh left Ronaldo&#8217;s side four points clear at the top of the Saudi Pro League after nine matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow former Premier League stars Joao Felix and Sadio Mane were also on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Real Madrid and Manchester United star Ronaldo has yet to win a title since moving to the Saudi club nearly three years ago.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) \u2013&nbsp;Cristiano Ronaldo rolled back the years with a spectacular overhead bicycle kick for Saudi side Al Nassr in a 4-1 win. &#8220;Best caption wins!&#8221; the 40-year-old Portuguese international wrote on X after his 96th-minute wonder strike on Sunday home to Al Khaleej. The emphatic victory in Riyadh left Ronaldo&#8217;s side four [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}