{"id":16456,"date":"2025-11-24T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=662459"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:05:22","slug":"still-flying-high-at-40-cristiano-ronaldo-produces-breathtaking-bicycle-kick-to-secure-4-1-victory-for-al-nassr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/still-flying-high-at-40-cristiano-ronaldo-produces-breathtaking-bicycle-kick-to-secure-4-1-victory-for-al-nassr\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Flying High at 40: Cristiano Ronaldo produces breathtaking bicycle kick to secure 4-1 victory for Al Nassr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At an age when most professionals consider winding down their careers, Cristiano Ronaldo has once again reminded the football world that he is far from done. The 40-year-old Portuguese striker produced a stunning overhead kick in stoppage time, sealing a commanding 4-1 win for his club Al\u2011Nassr against Al\u2011Khaleej in the Saudi Pro League.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo met a right-wing cross with perfect timing and athleticism, sending a fierce volley into the net, a moment that echoed his iconic 2018 bicycle-kick strike while at Real Madrid. With this goal, he capped off Al-Nassr\u2019s flawless start to the season, extending their win-streak to nine in nine.<\/p>\n<p>This goal isn\u2019t just another tally for Ronaldo. It\u2019s a statement: even at 40, he still possesses the athleticism, timing, technique and hunger to deliver league-defining moments. In a sport obsessed with youth and speed, Ronaldo defies the norms. His late-game bicycle kick underlines that age is perhaps becoming just a number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an age when most professionals consider winding down their careers, Cristiano Ronaldo has once again reminded the football world\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3434,4276,4274,321,3686,1823,3796,4275,4277,3438,181],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-al-nassr","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycle-kick","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-golazo","tag-mctominay","tag-portugal-football-team","tag-ronaldo"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}