Cristiano Ronaldo (37, Portugal), the sign player of Manchester United (hereafter referred to as Manchester United), a professional soccer player in England, is about to become a ‘Nalgangdo’ in Thailand.
Manchester United will play a friendly match against Liverpool, the same English Premier League team, in Bangkok, Thailand on the 12th.
However, Ronaldo, who has recently been rumored to be breaking up with Manchester United, will not participate in Manchester United’s visit to Thailand.
After this Thailand match, Manchester United will move to Melbourne, Australia, where they will face Australia’s professional football club Melbourne on the 15th and Crystal Palace, an English Premier League team, on the 19th.
On the 23rd, they will play Aston Villa (England) in Perth, Australia.
As local reports emerged that Ronaldo had recently communicated to the club that he wanted to transfer to Manchester United to another team, the possibility of playing for another team for the 2022-2023 season has been raised.
Although he has one year left on his contract with Manchester United, Ronaldo is known to have a strong will to transfer to a team that will participate in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) for the 2022-2023 season.
Archyde.com reported on the 10th that “Hundreds of Thai football fans came to the airport to welcome the arrival of the Manchester United squad,” Archyde.com reported.
“I was disappointed that Ronaldo did not come to Thailand this time,” said Natapong Charoenkul, 32, a Thai soccer fan, in an interview with Archyde.com. “I still respect him.”
Tickets for this match between Manchester United and Liverpool are on sale for up to 25,000 baht (about 900,000 won).
In the friendly match between Juventus and the K-League All-Star (Team K-League) held in Seoul in July 2019, Ronaldo, who was a member of Juventus at the time, broke the contract terms that ‘played for at least 45 minutes’ and kept only the bench.
At that time, fans who could not watch Ronaldo’s game even after buying a ticket worth up to 400,000 won filed a claim for damages against the company that hosted the game.
Domestic soccer fans also nicknamed Ronaldo ‘Nalgangdu’, a new word that combines ‘Nalgang’ and ‘Ronaldo’.
This Thailand friendly match is somewhat different from Juventus’s visit to Korea, which broke the terms of the contract in 2019, but it is similar to the disappointment of football fans excited to see Ronaldo in person.
/yunhap news