Join the Egyptian international, Mahmoud Hassan Trezeguet To the list of Egyptians who did not succeed in achieving victory over Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo, the all-time top scorer in football, after losing with his team Al Rayyan to Al Nassr in the AFC Elite Champions League.
And he managed Victory From defeating Al Rayyan by two goals to one, yesterday evening, Monday, in the second round of the league stage for the West Region in the AFC Champions League for the Elite, in a confrontation in which the two played 90 minutes.
The confrontation between Cristiano Ronaldo and Trezeguet was not the first for an Egyptian player against the Portuguese star, as there were many previous confrontations between Egyptian stars against the “Global” leader.
Who was the first Egyptian player to face Cristiano Ronaldo in European stadiums?
The former Egyptian international, Ahmed Hossam Mido, the star of Zamalek and the former coach of Wadi Degla Club, is the first Egyptian player to face Ronaldo on the field, as their first meeting took place in the 2005-06 season, in the tenth round of the Premier League on September 10, 2005, and the match ended in a draw. Positive (1-1), and neither of them scored goals.
Then Mido and Ronaldo met again in the 2006-07 and 2008-09 seasons, and the Portuguese was victorious on both occasions, as Mido in the 2006-07 season was still at Tottenham, and in the second confrontation he was with Wigan Athletic.
Egyptian knot in front of Cristiano Ronaldo!
After Mido, the second Egyptian player to face the “Portuguese Don” was Hossam Ghaly, during his career with Tottenham. He faced Ronaldo on two occasions in the 2006-07 season, and lost with Spurs (1-0) in the first round match, and (4-0) in the second round match.
Then, Mohamed Shawky, the former assistant coach of the Egyptian national team, faced Ronaldo, in a match dating back to the 2008-09 season, and at that time the former Al-Ahly star was a player in Middlesbrough, and the Red Devils, led by Cristiano, won (3-1) in the third round match in the English Professional League Cup.
In the same season, the other Egyptian, but one of the stars of Zamalek, Amr Zaki, had the opportunity to meet Ronaldo, during his short professional career in Wigan, and the Portuguese beat the Bulldozer that evening with a clean goal.
Years later, the meeting was renewed again between Cristiano Ronaldo and the Egyptians, this time through Mohamed Elneny, when he was a player in the Swiss club Basel. In the 2014-15 season, the two teams met twice in the group stage, and the victory went to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Even after moving to the English Premier League, and Ronaldo’s return to United, Arsenal and Manchester faced off on two occasions, the Portuguese prevailing in one in the 2021-22 season, while the second match was won by Elneny’s team (3-1), achieving the Egyptians’ second victory over Ronaldo after Salah in The same season, but with Liverpool, the duo broke the Egyptian knot in front of the Portuguese star.
As for Salah, he faced Cristiano Ronaldo on 5 occasions at the club level with two teams, Roma and Liverpool. In the first meeting between Cristiano and the Egyptian Pharaoh, Cristiano Ronaldo excelled in the round of 16, and led Real Madrid to victory over Wolves in the round of 16 in the 2015 season. -16, and the situation was repeated in the return match.
And in the 2017-18 season, specifically in the final UEFA Champions LeagueRonaldo came back to outperform Salah, who had moved to Liverpool, and Real Madrid beat Liverpool (3-1) in the final.
With the Portuguese’s return to the Red Devils from Juventus, Ronaldo faced Salah on two occasions, and this time Cristiano Ronaldo suffered his first loss against an Egyptian player in Europe, when Liverpool won (5-0) in the ninth round in the 2021-22 season, while in the second round. United came back to beat Liverpool (2-1).
Hegazy and Tariq Hamed are the “exception” in front of Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia and Asia
In the colors of his current club, Al-Nasr, Ronaldo’s conflict with the Egyptians was renewed, when his team met against Al-Ittihad Jeddah, which at the time included the Egyptian duo Ahmed Hegazy and Tariq Hamed.
That match bore a bad memory for Ronaldo, as he and Al-Nassr bid farewell to the Saudi Super Cup last January, after losing to Al-Ittihad 1-3 in the semi-finals at King Fahd International Stadium.
In his second official match with Al-Nasr jersey, Ronaldo did not succeed in beating Ahmed Hegazy, captain of the team, who received widespread praise for his ability to stop Real Madrid’s all-time top scorer. Hegazy is the only Egyptian who defeated Ronaldo twice, but Tariq Hamed, after moving to Damak, fell to… Ronaldo and Al-Alamy on two occasions last season 2023-24.
It is noteworthy that Ronaldo met with Al-Nasr Al-Zamalek of Egypt in the Arab Championship, and led his team to snatch a point from the White Knight in a match that ended in a positive draw (1-1), in a match in which Ronaldo and Ahmed Sayed Zizou scored, while at the international level, Cristiano led his country to victory over the national team. Egypt “friendly” as part of the preparations for the 2018 World Cup finals, where he scored a goal in the dead time in the 90th minute, giving Portugal victory over Egypt (2-1), knowing that Cristiano was the one who scored the first goal.
