{"id":507865,"date":"2026-02-04T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507865"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:14:50","slug":"benzema-claims-that-al-hilal-are-like-real-madrid-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benzema-claims-that-al-hilal-are-like-real-madrid-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema claims that Al-Hilal are like Real Madrid in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema shared that his new club in the SPL, Al-Hilal, is the &#8220;Real Madrid in Asia&#8221; right after completing a controversial transfer from rivals Al-Ittihad. While the forward wants to win more trophies, the move is rumored to infuriated the superstar of Al-Nassr Cristiano Ronaldo, who tried everything to stop the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>After his transfer became official, the French star immediately revealed that his new team&#8217;s ambitions in Asia are like those of his former team, Real Madrid, in Europe. Benzema played 14 years for Los Blancos before continuing his journey in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great to become an Al-Hilal player,\u201d the forward shared. \u201cAfter my 1<sup>st<\/sup> training with my teammates, I\u2019m glad to have moved here. It is a fantastic club with a rich history. Al-Hilal have won a lot of silverware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benzema added that it is similar to his ex-club Real Madrid, but in Asia: \u201cEverything is at the highest level. We have amazing supporters, good footballers, and the mentality is right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karim also shared that he liked his current team from before, as he faced them while being part of Los Blancos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You gotta do the famous run \ud83c\udfc3\ud83d\udc99<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SPycDzlsaV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SPycDzlsaV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AlHilal Saudi Club (@Alhilal_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alhilal_EN\/status\/2019077315431399451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema shared that his new club in the SPL, Al-Hilal, is the &#8220;Real Madrid in Asia&#8221; right after completing a controversial transfer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17447,17428],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[10726,771],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Karim talked about the trophy ambition in his new team.","video":["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\/507865"}],"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=507865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507866,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507865\/revisions\/507866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507865"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507865"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}