{"id":157846,"date":"2023-06-07T01:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/benzema-leaves-real-madrid-for-al-ittihad\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T01:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:01:33","slug":"benzema-leaves-real-madrid-for-al-ittihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/benzema-leaves-real-madrid-for-al-ittihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema leaves Real Madrid for Al Ittihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to the media, the contract is valued at more than 100 million euros (about 106.89 million dollars).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited to experience a new football league in a different country. I have been lucky to achieve incredible things in my career and to achieve as much as I can in Spain and in Europe,&#8221; said the 35-year-old Benzema.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I feel the time is right for a new challenge and project&#8230;I am looking forward to joining my new teammates and, together with them, helping to take this incredible club and Saudi Arabian football to new levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ittihad captured the Saudi Pro League title for the first time since 2009 last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The arrival of Benzema is the most impressive signing in the club&#8217;s history to date,&#8221; Al Ittihad said in a statement.  &#8220;It also marks another big step on the Saudi Pro League&#8217;s path to becoming one of soccer&#8217;s premier destinations for the world&#8217;s best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At Real Madrid, Benzema won the Champions League five times, four LaLiga crowns and three Copa del Rey trophies, as well as five Club World Cups and four UEFA Super Cups.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n        FB.init({\n                appId : '162165018053926',\n            cookie     : true,\n            xfbml      : true,\n            version    : 'v8.0'\n        });\n        FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the media, the contract is valued at more than 100 million euros (about 106.89 million dollars). &#8220;I am excited to experience a new football league in a different country. I have been lucky to achieve incredible things in my career and to achieve as much as I can in Spain and in Europe,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":157847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22615],"tags":[25022,38038,11514,13052,11403,24936],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn-3.expansion.mx\/dims4\/default\/baf2c24\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/784x412%200%2015\/resize\/1200x630!\/format\/jpg\/quality\/80\/?url=https:\/\/cdn-3.expansion.mx\/92\/99\/b9f62611440fa2656b4fa9ec22c7\/benzemaequipo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}