Cristiano Ronaldo joins Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr
Al Nassr of Saudi Arabia has announced that Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo signed for the club on Friday, in a deal said to be worth more than 200 million euros.
Ronaldo, who signed the contract that is till June 2025, said, "I can't wait to discover a new football league in a different country." The 37-year-old is a former Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus player.
He was shown on the Al Nassr Twitter feed, holding a blue and yellow shirt with his favorite number seven on the back, reports NDTV.
"The vision with which Al Nassr operates is very inspiring, and I am delighted to join my teammates, so that together we can help the team achieve greater success," said Ronaldo.
Al Nassr have won nine Saudi Arabian league titles, the last won in 2019.
"This is more than history in the making. This is a signing that will not only inspire our club to achieve even greater success but inspire our league, our nation and future generations, boys and girls to be the best version of themselves. Welcome @cristiano to your new home @alnassr_fc," tweeted the Saudis.
Ronaldo has joined the Al Nassr after a year that saw him being kept away from the field for Portugal and also being cut adrift from Manchester United.
While Ronaldo has long been one of the top-paid soccer players, he is, for Saudi Arabia, one of the latest high-priced sporting stars acquired.
Dustin Johnson reportedly signed a contract of 125 million dollars, following which, the club won more than 35 million in eight tournaments.
Saudi Arabia has also staged heavyweight boxing title matches, the Dakar Rally and a Formula One grand prix in the last two years.
Ronaldo has also been contesting against Lionel Messi for the titles of the greatest player and biggest earner in soccer. In addition, he has won five Champions League titles (2008, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018), league titles in Italy (2019, 2020) with Juventus, in Spain (2012, 2017) with Real Madrid and in England (2007, 2008, 2009) with United.
He is also the top scorer in the Champions League and with the Portuguese national team with whom he won Euro 2016.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
