{"id":358726,"date":"2023-08-14T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/brazils-neymar-to-play-for-saudi-arabias-al-hilal\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:56:06","slug":"brazils-neymar-to-play-for-saudi-arabias-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-neymar-to-play-for-saudi-arabias-al-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Neymar to play for Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian striker Neymar <em>(pictured above)<\/em> agreed to play for Saudi club Al Hilal on a two-year contract. The player will sign with his new team after undergoing a medical exam in Paris this Monday (14). Neymar\u2019s presentation is expected to occur next Wednesday (16).<\/p>\n<p>His former club, Paris Saint-Germain, will receive EUR 90 million (about USD 98.5 million at the current rate) for the 31-year-old player\u2019s transaction. In six seasons with the French club, Neymar played 173 games, scored 118 goals, and won 13 titles. Brought to the spotlight by Brazilian club Santos, he defended the colors of Spain\u2019s Barcelona before transferring to the Paris team in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hilal is one of the most popular teams in Saudi football. This year, Saudi league clubs already signed European football stars like Portuguese R\u00faben Neves (ex-Wolverhampton), Senegalese Koulibaly (ex-Chelsea), and Brazilian Malcom (ex-Zenit). Al-Hilal\u2019s coach is Portuguese Jorge Jesus, who is known to Brazilians for coaching Flamengo from 2019 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Another star, already playing in the Saudi Pro League (SPL) for Al-Nassr, one of Al Hilall\u2019s biggest rivals, is Portuguese Cristino Ronaldo. The team is coached by Luis Castro, who this year left Botafogo and moved to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six seasons, the Brazilian striker leaves France\u2019s Paris Saint-Germain to play for Al Hilal for the next two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":350726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[38661,11910,8939,44475,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-358726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-al-hilal-en","9":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","10":"tag-neymar","11":"tag-psg","12":"tag-saudi-arabia"},"wps_subtitle":"After six seasons, the Brazilian striker leaves France\u2019s Paris Saint-Germain to play for Al Hilal for the next two years.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}