Al Hilal entered the great history of world football
.
This Friday they won 3-1 against Al Riyadh in the Saudi Professional League and reached
27 consecutive victories
in official tournaments (16 for the league, 8 for the Asian Champions and 3 for the King's Cup of Saudi Arabia) .
In this way, the team led by the Portuguese Jorge Jesús equaled the record of the Welsh team The New Saints FC and next Tuesday, for the rematch of the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League against
Marcelo Gallardo's Al Ittihad
( won 2-0 in the first leg) will be able to come out on top.
Al-Hilal 🇸🇦 by Jorge Jesús reached 27 consecutive victories and equaled the Guinness Record 🏅 mark that belongs to The New Saints FC 🏴.
Their next match will be on Tuesday, for the Asian Champions, against Marcelo Gallardo's Al Ittihad.
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The Welsh institution had managed to enter the Guinness book and history in the 2016/17 season, when it won 27 games in a row in its domestic league.
Before Saints FC, Ajax
had the record for consecutive victories
between 1971 and 1972 with 26 consecutive victories.
A brand that lasted for 44 years.
The arrivals of the star players to the most successful club
in Saudi Arabia
have made the club continue to grow and be unstoppable, despite the fact that its biggest star, the Brazilian
Neymar Jr
, was only able to play five games and is currently in the final phase of recovery after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee in a match with the Brazilian team in the Qualifiers against Uruguay, in Montevideo.
The team led by Jesús made a great transfer market that reflects the moment it is in, with the hiring of
Neymar Jr
,
Yasssine Bounou
,
Kalidou Koulibaly
,
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic
,
Aleksandar Mitrovic
;
Malcom
,
Rubén Neves
and
Renan Lodi
.
There is no one to stop Jorge Jesus' Al Hilal!
On Tuesday they will seek to become the team with the most consecutive victories in history 🤯 pic.twitter.com/8PwtMjnHXA
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This milestone that Al Hilal is about to break comes within the economic injection of the Kingdom of Arabia for the 'Vision 2030' project
, which seeks to achieve the largest sporting events in the world.
The records of
Al-Za'eem,
as the institution is nicknamed, reinforce the bet of Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and the current leader of the Saudi league is on its way to being the only club with the most consecutive victories in football.
Next Tuesday when they face Al Ittihad, it will not be just another day for this club, since if they manage to beat those led by Gallardo (they already beat them in the League 3-1, on March 1; and in the first leg, 2-0, last Tuesday), Al Hilal can enter the semi-finals of the Asian Champions League and the sports history books.