RIAD.- The Portuguese Joao Félix signed for the Saudi club Al-nassrwhere he will meet his compatriot Cristiano Ronaldowho signed a new contract with this team in June, the entity announced on Tuesday in X.
“I am here to bring joy. We will win together,” said the 25 -year media in a video published in the Club X account. Another message, in Arabic, indicates that the player has signed with the team until 2027.
Joao Félix is the last European talent that emphasizes in Saudi football. The Portuguese international has never managed to perform at the level of his fame after passing through Atlético, Barcelona, Milan and Chelsea.
The midfielda remains one of the most expensive signings in the history of football, when Benfica went to Atlético de Madrid for 127.7 million euros (146 million dollars) in 2019.
The Al-Noser announced on July 15 the signing of the prestigious Portuguese coach Jorge Jesús.
A month earlier, the Cristiano Ronaldo legend, 40, signed a new contract until 2027 with the entity, ending speculation about its possible departure.
In recent years, Saudi Arabiawhich will host the 2034 World Cup, has spent colossal sums to attract stars like Ronaldo and Karim Benzema to the Saudi Pro League.
The sport is, together with tourism, one of the fundamental pillars of the 2030 Vision Plan promoted by the heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman, whose objective is to diversify the economy of the world’s largest exporter of crude oil, threatened in the long term for the exhaustion of its resources.
Boca aggravates your crisis
Boca Juniors is immersed in a hard crisis. He chained eleven consecutive games without victories, his worst historical brand, and the discontent among his fans, which begin to reproach even his president, the idol Juan Román Riquelme.
The defeat of Sunday 1 against Hurricane in the local tournament unleashed a storm of criticism and deepened the discomfort in the massive Boquense fan.
The Xeneize languishes in the penultimate place of Group A of the Clausura Tournament with two points of nine played, by the veteran coach Miguel Ángel Russo, 69, in his third stage at the head of the club.
Russo was the DT that led Boca to win his sixth and last Copa Libertadores in 2007, with Riquelme as his main figure in the team.
