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Indian club FC Goa midfielder Brison Fernandez expressed his expectation for a meeting with Cristiano Ronaldo (Al-Nasr), a 'immortal superstar.'
Goa won 2-1 in the Asian Champions League's TWO (ACL2) West playoff in the 2025-2026 season against Al Shiv (Oman) on the 13th (Korea time) to qualify for the group stage.
As a result, Goa, the 2025 Indian Super Cup champion, is more likely to face Ronaldo's team, Al Nasr, in the group stage.
Al-Nasr went straight to the ACL2 group stage, not the Champions League Elite (ACLE), with his third-place performance in the Saudi professional league in the 2024-2025 season. In the Saudi professional league, the first to third place in the league's final ranking will advance to ACLE and the fourth place to ACL2. However, as Al Ahli, ranked fifth in the league last season, qualified for next season's ACLE as the ACLE winner, Al Nasr, ranked third, was pushed to ACL2. Ronaldo, who won the European Champions League (UCL) five times and won the Ballon d'Or five times as a member of Manchester United and Real Madrid, went to ACL 2, the second part of the Asian Club competition.
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Unlike ACLE, the ACL2 group stage determines the teams that advance to the tournament with the old method of group stage. Thirty-two teams will be divided into eight groups of four teams, and the top two teams in the group will advance to the round of 16. Saudi Arabia is tied to western regions such as Qatar, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and India. In the Eastern District, clubs from Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, and Australia will compete. Pohang will participate in the K League as a representative. The drawing ceremony will be held on the 15th.
If Al-Nasr is in the same group as Goa or Mohun Began (the Indian League winner last season), he must go on the road to India at least once. India has the largest population (about 1.46 billion people) in the world and boasts a huge soccer fever. Ronaldo is expected to make a huge impact just by stepping on his feet.
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Fernandez, who was born in 2001 and debuted for India this year, told the Times of India"We all think about how wonderful it is to play against a star like Ronaldo. Personally, I'm a big fan of Ronaldo. I respect Ronaldo so much, and I always try to learn from him. He did not hide his excitement, saying, "It's my lifelong dream to play against Ronaldo."
Ronaldo will play in East Asia ahead of the ACL2 group league, which starts in September. This is my first football schedule since I proposed a ring to my girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez. Al-Nasr's squad visited Hong Kong on the 14th ahead of the final of the 2025 Saudi Super Cup against Al-Itihad at Hong Kong Stadium on the 19th.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
