{"id":2167,"date":"2018-08-09T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-08-09T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:02:09","slug":"uaes-star-footballer-rejects-europes-offers-and-is-joining-the-saudi-league-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/lifestyle\/uaes-star-footballer-rejects-europes-offers-and-is-joining-the-saudi-league-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE’s Star Footballer Rejects Europe’s Offers And Is Joining The Saudi League Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UAE’s midfielder and popular footballer Omar Abdul Rahman is set to be on loan for Saudi’s Al Hilal team in Riyadh on Monday. The decision comes after the player agreed to the loan from Al Ain for an entire season, reports Gulf News.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Image Credit: Twitter\/@Omar___A10)<\/em><\/p>\n

Al Hilal will hold a free event at the King Fahd Stadium on Monday<\/h3>\n

Although no official announcements about Abdul Rahman’s loan has been announced, Al Hilal has tweeted their plans for a free event on Monday night to welcome the new players.<\/p>\n

New players coming into the Kingdom always mean more hype for football lovers in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n

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Omar Abdulrahman at the Austrian camp????. pic.twitter.com\/zngdWDnsNT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Omar Abdulrahman (@Omar___A10) July 30, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abdulrahman is a Riyadh-born player so his return would be monumental<\/h4>\n

The player, Abdul Rahman, who was also 2016’s Asian Player of the Year is reportedly in a contract extension with Al Ain on the condition that he spends a season on loan at Al Hilal.<\/p>\n

The Riyadh-born player will make a return to the Kingdom, and returning to the team (Al Hilal) whom he also played for as a youth player in 2000.<\/p>\n

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Many are wondering why he opted to stay in the region<\/h3>\n
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UAE star Omar Abdulrahman is about to make the first move of his career but is staying in Asia, going on loan to Al-Hilal from Al Ain.<\/p>\n

It got me wondering: Who’s Concacaf’s biggest ‘what if?’, a player who seemed like he’d succeed in Europe but never left the region.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jon Arnold (@ArnoldcommaJon) August 8, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even reports of the amount he was paid for the year-long loan went around the web!<\/h4>\n
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Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia have just signed Al Ain\u2019s playmaker Omar Abdulrahman on one year loan for 14 million euro! pic.twitter.com\/CsZjOwPNMX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Photos of Football (@photosofootball) August 8, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

but Al Hilal supporters are loving it!<\/h4>\n
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The transfer we\u2019ve all been waiting for (kinda), Omar Abdulrahman is officially an Al-Hilal player! https:\/\/t.co\/8KYAJnnfoF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Martin Lowe (@plasticpitch) August 8, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UAE’s midfielder and popular footballer Omar Abdul Rahman is set to be on loan for Saudi’s Al Hilal team in Riyadh on Monday. The decision comes after the player agreed to the loan from Al Ain for an entire season, reports Gulf News. (Image Credit: Twitter\/@Omar___A10) Al Hilal will hold a free event at the … ","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,43],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-10.49.12-AM.png?mtime=20180809084829","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-10.49.12-AM.png?mtime=20180809084829 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"UAE's Star Footballer Rejects Europe's Offers And Is Joining The Saudi League Instead - Lovin Saudi<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"UAE&#039;s midfielder and popular footballer Omar Abdul Rahman is set to be on loan for Saudi&#039;s Al Hilal team in Riyadh on Monday. The decision comes after the player agreed to the loan from Al Ain for an entire season, reports Gulf News.\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/uaes-star-footballer-rejects-europes-offers-and-is-joining-the-saudi-league-instead\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/uaes-star-footballer-rejects-europes-offers-and-is-joining-the-saudi-league-instead\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UAE's Star Footballer Rejects Europe's Offers And Is Joining The Saudi League Instead\">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/uaes-star-footballer-rejects-europes-offers-and-is-joining-the-saudi-league-instead\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-10.49.12-AM.png?mtime=20180809084829\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1046\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"688\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovinsaudi\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"UAE's Star Footballer Rejects Europe's Offers And Is Joining The Saudi League Instead\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"lovinsaudi\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\" UAE's midfielder and popular footballer Omar Abdul Rahman is set to be on loan for Saudi's Al Hilal team in Riyadh on Monday. The decision comes after the player agreed to the loan from Al Ain for an entire season, reports Gulf News.\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/uaes-star-footballer-rejects-europes-offers-and-is-joining-the-saudi-league-instead\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-10.49.12-AM.png?mtime=20180809084829\">\n"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"LovinSaudi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167"}],"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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}