{"id":1261,"date":"2018-01-22T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-01-22T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:40:12","slug":"saudi-players-are-heading-to-spain-soon-for-a-world-cup-and-its-going-to-be-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/news\/saudi-players-are-heading-to-spain-soon-for-a-world-cup-and-its-going-to-be-exciting\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Saudi Footballers Have Been Chosen To Play In One Of The Best Leagues In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s football players are prepping for their first World Cup finals appearance since 2006. Saudi is sending some of their best players on loan to Spain for experience. As of now, six players have joined Spanish clubs in accordance to an agreement with La Liga and Saudi Federation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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the General Sports Authority the Saudi Football Federation and the La Liga Association of Spain announce the main steps in relation to their partnership in order to develop the sport of football in Saudi Arabia pic.twitter.com\/cfW5tDyRz4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 General Sports Authority (@gsaksa_en) January 21, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The General Sports Authority announced it via Twitter on Sunday<\/h3>\n
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25 members of the La Liga Association attend a signing ceremony for Saudi players in a unique professional step in the world.<\/p>\n

\u2014 General Sports Authority (@gsaksa_en) January 21, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several Spanish clubs have announced the good news<\/h3>\n

Like Villarea, Levante, Rayo Vallecano, Valladolid, Gijon and Leganes announced on Sunday that they had signed a Saudi player.\u00a0The club Villareal took Salem Al- Dawsari, the attacking midfielder; whereas Yahia Al-\u00a0Shehri joined Leganes and Levante signed Fahad Al- Muwallad, a forward.<\/p>\n

These loans are in place just five months prior to the\u00a0World Cup in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Professional players in the Spanish first class:
– Yahia Al Shehri (Legance Club)
– Fahad Al Mawlid (Levante Club)
Salem Al Dosari (Villarreal Club)#Our_sport_is_global<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HFplhu7Ybz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 General Sports Authority (@gsaksa_en) January 21, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s football players are prepping for their first World Cup finals appearance since 2006. Saudi is sending some of their best players on loan to Spain for experience. As of now, six players have joined Spanish clubs in accordance to an agreement with La Liga and Saudi Federation.\u00a0 the General Sports … ","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-22-at-12.57.16-PM.png?mtime=20180122095744","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-22-at-12.57.16-PM.png?mtime=20180122095744 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"6 Saudi Footballers Have Been Chosen To Play In One Of The Best Leagues In The World - Lovin Saudi<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia&#039;s football players are prepping for their first World Cup finals appearance since 2006. Saudi is sending some of their best players on loan to Spain for experience.\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/saudi-players-are-heading-to-spain-soon-for-a-world-cup-and-its-going-to-be-exciting\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/saudi-players-are-heading-to-spain-soon-for-a-world-cup-and-its-going-to-be-exciting\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"6 Saudi Footballers Have Been Chosen To Play In One Of The Best Leagues In The World\">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/saudi-players-are-heading-to-spain-soon-for-a-world-cup-and-its-going-to-be-exciting\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-22-at-12.57.16-PM.png?mtime=20180122095744\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"760\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"346\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovinsaudi\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"6 Saudi Footballers Have Been Chosen To Play In One Of The Best Leagues In The World\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"shereenahmedm\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\" The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's football players are prepping for their first World Cup finals appearance since 2006. Saudi is sending some of their best players on loan to Spain for experience.\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/saudi-players-are-heading-to-spain-soon-for-a-world-cup-and-its-going-to-be-exciting\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-22-at-12.57.16-PM.png?mtime=20180122095744\">\n"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Shereen Ahmed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}