{"id":438222,"date":"2023-06-21T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438222"},"modified":"2023-06-21T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:21:00","slug":"al-ittihad-sign-kante-on-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/al-ittihad-sign-kante-on-3-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Ittihad sign Kante on 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N&#8217;Golo Kante has joined Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Ittihad on a 3-year deal and will partner his compatriot Karim Benzema, who already signed with the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne time I told you you are the best player box-to-box in the world,\u201d said Benzema \u201cNow I\u2019m happy to play with you again. And of course, at the best team in Saudi. See you in Jeddah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kante\u00a0 spent 7 years with Chelsea, winning pretty much everything there is to be won &#8211; a Champions League, Premier League, Europa League and FA Cup. He is also a World Cup winner with France in 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks you Ngolo Kante. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l5MKzjx0m0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l5MKzjx0m0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob (@bob_mchelsea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bob_mchelsea\/status\/1671379239176753153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is believed to be paid around $100 million across the length of the deal at Al-Ittihad, who clinched the title in Saudi Arabia ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Al-Nassr.<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of Kante is yet another boost for the Saudi Arabia&#8217;s league, which is attracting more and more world class soccer names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N&#8217;Golo Kante has joined Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Ittihad on a 3-year deal and will partner his compatriot Karim Benzema, who already signed with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19706,17428],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[19707,771,2528],"acf":{"announce":"The Saudi Arabia team has attracted another star player after purchasing Benzema","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438222"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438222"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}