{"id":3712,"date":"2026-02-20T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:29:43","slug":"saudi-pro-league-star-celebrates-goal-with-one-piece-pose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/saudi-pro-league-star-celebrates-goal-with-one-piece-pose\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Pro League star celebrates goal with One Piece pose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid Al Ghannam drew widespread attention on social media after celebrating his goal with a tribute to <em>One Piece<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Al Ettifaq winger opened the scoring in his side\u2019s Roshn Saudi League clash against Al Fateh on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following his goal, the 25-year-old ran to the sidelines, donned a straw hat and struck a pose associated with Monkey D. Luffy, the main character of <em>One Piece<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u062e\u0627\u0644\u062f \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0646\u0627\u0645.. \u0628\u0639\u062f \u062a\u0633\u062c\u064a\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0647\u062f\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644 \ud83e\udd20\u270c\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u062f\u0648\u0631\u064a_\u0631\u0648\u0634\u0646_\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u0648\u062f\u064a<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0644\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0627\u0647\u064a\u0631<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DFnNzKA0Fz\">pic.twitter.com\/DFnNzKA0Fz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u062f\u0648\u0631\u064a \u0631\u0648\u0634\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u0648\u062f\u064a (@SPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPL\/status\/2024564940124905616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The celebration referenced Luffy\u2019s well-known \u201cGear 2\u201d stance from the long-running Japanese anime and manga.<\/p>\n<p>First serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997, <em>One Piece<\/em> has since grown into one of the most successful media franchises globally, expanding into films, video games and a Netflix live-action adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia international Madallah Al-Olayan and former Liverpool star Georginio Wijnaldum were also on the scoresheet as Al Ettifaq won 4-3.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uAhfOo9wjE?si=anMCqnFPzJWiFM5g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid Al Ghannam drew widespread attention on social media after celebrating his goal with a tribute to One Piece. The Al Ettifaq winger opened the scoring in his side\u2019s Roshn Saudi League clash against Al Fateh on Thursday. Following his goal, the 25-year-old ran to the sidelines, donned a straw hat and struck a pose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/saudi-pro-league-star-celebrates-goal-with-one-piece-pose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudi Pro League star celebrates goal with One Piece pose<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[127,198],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-football","tag-saudi-pro-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}