{"id":465011,"date":"2023-10-06T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465011"},"modified":"2023-10-06T13:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:41:56","slug":"ibrahimovic-players-in-saudi-putting-legacies-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ibrahimovic-players-in-saudi-putting-legacies-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahimovic: \u201cPlayers in Saudi putting legacies in jeopardy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan Ibrahimovic claims players who move to Middle East country risk their legacies becoming about money rather than what they show on the pitch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zlatan Ibrahimovic calls out Cristiano Ronaldo for his move to Saudi Arabia \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O0zUZ3Q5Ig\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/O0zUZ3Q5Ig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1710229680387719207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The former Sweden international (42) retired during the summer at AC Milan after a career full of trophies.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Man. United and PSG forward admits he received offers from China and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think footballers that reach a certain elite level have to stop at a certain stage &#8211; the big stage,&#8221; the forward shared.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most popular footballers, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Riyad Mahrez, Karim Benzema, and N&#8217;Golo Kant\u00e9, have moved to the Arabian country in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Pro League has been making massive transfers since the beginning of the year, and 4 of its best clubs &#8211; Al-Ahli, Al-Ittihad, Al-Hilal, and Al-Nassr \u2013 were taken over by the PIF, which also owns the Magpies in the Premier League since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan Ibrahimovic claims players who move to Middle East country risk their legacies becoming about money rather than what they show on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465012,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20050,19713],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[20051,19714],"acf":{"announce":"The legendary striker thinks that players in Arabia are putting legacies at risk.","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\/465011"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465014,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465011\/revisions\/465014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465011"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465011"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}