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Saudi football clubs to return to transfer market, says top executive
...The arrival of several big stars, including former Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema and ex-Premier League player of the season N’Golo Kante, has helped the Saudi league to sell its broadcast rights to a...
February 28, 2024
FIFA Men's World Cup
Fifa names Saudi Arabia as sole bidder for 2034 football World Cup
...The true level of spending was likely far higher due to the bumper pay packets on offer to stars including former Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema and Brazilian forward Neymar....
October 31, 2023
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Football
Saudi football scores with €430mn summer spending spree
...But spending by the league’s top clubs has been turbocharged since June, when Saudi Arabia’s $650bn sovereign wealth fund took control of Al Nassr along with Al Ittihad, Al Ahli and Al Hilal....
August 4, 2023
The Top LineJosh Noble
Saudi Arabia’s football spending spree is a gift to Fifa
...Since then more than two dozen players have come, including former Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema and Neymar, the most expensive footballer in history....
August 25, 2023
Football
Saudi Arabia passes four domestic football teams to sovereign fund
...The Public Investment Fund said on Monday that Al Ittihad, Al Ahli, Al Hilal and Al Nassr — where Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo plays — had been converted into corporate entities, having previously been...
June 5, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi: who was the greatest footballer?
...In 2007, the Brazilian Kaká won the Ballon d’Or for world’s best footballer....
June 3, 2023
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Scoreboard
Saudi Arabia threatens to disrupt the football hierarchy Premium content
...Other football stars relocating include last year’s Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema and fellow World Cup champion N’Golo Kanté. Both have signed for Al Ittihad in Jeddah, having been out of contract....
June 24, 2023
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo quits top-level football with move to Saudi Arabia
...Al-Nassr signed a strategic partnership with the fund’s portfolio company Qiddiya in February. “History in the making,” Al Nassr tweeted....
December 31, 2022
FIFA Men's World Cup
World Cup briefing: Final whistle blows for Qatar’s shortlived stadiums
...The next challenge will be to overcome Croatia, losing finalists from Russia 2018, and their former Ballon d’Or winning talisman Luka Modrić....
December 5, 2022
FT MagazineWorld Cup 2022 special
Why middle-aged Messi and Modrić are still the world’s best
...But there’s something else he said that day that probably does more to explain the endurance of Benzema et al today....
November 9, 2022
Liberia
Absence abroad by Liberia president George Weah attracts criticism
...The elder Weah in 1995 became the first and only African footballer to win the Ballon d’Or, an annual award for the world’s best player, during a career in which he played in the French, Italian and English...
December 13, 2022
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NFL player power back in the spotlight Premium content
...At his unveiling this week, Ronaldo said he had made the move after achieving everything in the European game — a fair claim for someone who has won both the Ballon d’Or and the Champions League five times...
January 7, 2023

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