{"id":669881,"date":"2026-10-30T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669881\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:22:11","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-scores-hat-trick-to-edge-closer-to-1000-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669881\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo scores hat-trick to edge closer to 1,000 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick helped Al-Nassr to a 5-3 win against Al-Kholood in the Saudi Pro League and took the Portugal striker to 985 career goals. <\/p>\n

With the game evenly poised at 2-2 following goals from Angelo Gabriel and Sadio Mane for for Al-Nassr, Ronaldo secured the win for his side by scoring three times in 15 second-half minutes. <\/p>\n

His Portugal team-mate Joao Felix contributed four assists, including for two of Ronaldo’s goals.<\/p>\n

It was the 67th hat-trick of the 41-year-old’s career as he continues to chase another milestone in a glittering career.<\/p>\n

He has scored seven of his hat-tricks for Al-Nassr – along with 44 for Real Madrid, 10 for Portugal and three each at Manchester United and Juventus.<\/p>\n

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has won league titles in England, Spain, Italy and Saudi Arabia and is the all-time top goalscorer in men’s international football.<\/p>\n

He has spent almost four years at Saudi Pro League champions Al-Nassr, with whom he has one year remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n

In August, he hinted at retirement by saying it was “probably” his last year playing.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Al-Nassr are defending champions in the Saudi Pro League and sit second in the table, although they have a game in hand on leaders Al-Qadsiah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick helped Al-Nassr to a 5-3 win against Al-Kholood in the Saudi Pro League and took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-669881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}