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French-Senegalese footballer Kalidou Koulibaly, former Chelsea central defender, has been officially presented by his new team, the Saudi club Al Hilal for the upcoming season. This is how the same club let it know through its official Twitter account.
In a brief message with the text “We will continue making history together”, the club posted a 30-second video in which the player is seen wearing the blue shirt that he will wear next season, which will wear the number 3 shirt.
“I am here to achieve glory in the present and the future,” Koulibaly says in English in the video of his signing announcement.
The defender joins the Saudi club after his poor stint at Chelseaa team with which he signed a four-year contract on July 16, 2022 after his time at Naples, although he ultimately played only one season, after receiving the offer from Al Hilal which, according to British media, amounts to almost 24 million eurosapproximately $26 million dollars.
His signing comes in the midst of a renewal of the team’s squad, which Throughout this week it has announced the addition of new international footballers to its ranks.
Thus, last Friday, Al Hilal made official the hiring, until the 2025-2026 season, of the 26-year-old Portuguese international midfielder Rubén Neves, who lands at the club from the ranks of English Wolverhampton.
These incorporations occur after the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed bin Salmán, announced at the beginning of the month the launch of a project so that the private sector to invest in the kingdom’s sports clubs and whose award phase to companies will begin in the last quarter of this year.
The conservative kingdom is currently expecting several soccer stars to play for Saudi teams, after meeting andThe signing of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo by the Al Nassr club and that of the French Karim Benzema for Al Ittihad after saying goodbye to Real Madrid.
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