{"id":11952,"date":"2018-08-18T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11952"},"modified":"2018-08-18T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:22:33","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-set-to-make-serie-a-debut-for-juventus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11952","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo set to make Serie A debut for Juventus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> is set to make his Serie A debut following his $117m move<\/a> from Real Madrid to Italian giants Juventus.<\/p>\n

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri confirmed Ronaldo will be in the starting line-up for the reigning champions’ league opener against\u00a0<\/span>Chievo on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Ronaldo is playing tomorrow,” Allegri told a news conference in Turin before the match.<\/p>\n

“He is settling in well and he’s a simple lad to deal with. It’s only natural that the more we play together, the better things will get, and this will only benefit the team.<\/p>\n

“However, we must not think that just because we’ve got Ronaldo, we’ll win. We still need to prove that Juventus are technically better now.”<\/p>\n

Following the move to Italy, the 33-year-old, who scored 451 goals in 438 games for Real, has shown no signs of resting on his laurels.<\/p>\n

“I am going to prove that I am a top player,” said Ronaldo. “I am very ambitious and I like challenges.”<\/p>\n

Ronaldo joined Real in 2009 from English side Manchester United and won two Spanish titles and four Champions Leagues with the club in addition to a host of individual awards.<\/p>\n

But he hinted his time at the Santiago Bernabeu could be up immediately after the last Champions League success and Juventus captured his signature.<\/p>\n

‘Raise the level’<\/h2>\n

Much is expected of Ronaldo’s presence in the Italian league this season after the low of Italy missing out on qualifying for the World Cup in Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He’s going to raise the level of the championship,” said Italian football legend Dino Zoff.<\/p>\n

“Everyone can benefit. With Ronaldo, all eyes will be on us and Serie A can regain ground. His purchase will result in the arrival of other big names to Serie A.”<\/p>\n

Chievo coach Lorenzo D’Anna was wary of the opposition as well as the threat that Ronaldo posed but remained confident of his side’s ability to contain the Portuguese.<\/p>\n

“If you think you can stop Ronaldo one-against-one, you will lose 100 times out of 100. You can stop him with the whole defence, and cutting his supply of chances to go forward. <\/span><\/p>\n

“You can stop him only with a well positioned and aggressive team, and this is what we will need tomorrow.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is set to make his Serie A debut following his $117m move from Real Madrid to Italian giants Juventus. Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri confirmed Ronaldo will be in the starting line-up for the reigning champions’ league opener against\u00a0Chievo on Saturday. “Ronaldo is playing tomorrow,” Allegri told a news conference in Turin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}