{"id":465610,"date":"2023-10-13T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465610"},"modified":"2023-10-13T06:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:15:07","slug":"benzema-shares-why-he-left-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benzema-shares-why-he-left-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema shares why he left Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema shared that he &#8220;always wanted&#8221; to live in Saudi Arabia, having become an Al Ittihad player during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The French striker was expected to ink a 1-year deal to remain in Real Madrid following the end of the 2022\/23 campaign. However, he instead signed with Al Ittihad in a contract that will see him earn almost 200 million dollars per season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83d\udfe1 Karim Benzema on Al-Ittihad: &#8220;For a really long time, even before football, I always wanted to come to Saudi Arabia. Also, it&#8217;s a Muslim country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Straight away I felt this love for me&#8230; I really want to help Saudi football grow. I wanted to be part of the story. That&#8217;s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DU0QSd1dC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9DU0QSd1dC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurofootcom\/status\/1712728067527913969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Until today, Benzema has played 11 matches for his new side, netting 6 goals in these clashes and helping the reigning title holders to the upper reaches of the standings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, with everything I\u2019ve achieved with the Royal club, I think it was the right time for me to try something new,&#8221; Karim claimed. &#8220;For a really long period, even before my professional career, I always wanted to come to Saudi Arabia. Also, it&#8217;s a Muslim country. Straight away, I felt this love for me. On and off the pitch, I enjoy every day here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema shared that he &#8220;always wanted&#8221; to live in Saudi Arabia, having become an Al Ittihad player during the summer. The French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465611,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17428,20459],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[20461,771],"acf":{"announce":"Karim revealed the reason he left the Spanish giant to join the Saudi League.","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\/465610"}],"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=465610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465614,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465610\/revisions\/465614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465610"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465610"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}