Al-Nasr Club announced, on Tuesday, the official contract with Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina to support the ranks of the first football team for two seasons, starting from the next sports season, with the option of extending for a third season.
The contract with Ospina, the 33-year-old, came following entering the free period, following the end of his contract with Napoli, Italy, and thus becomes the second yellow capital deal during the current summer transfer period, following the inclusion of Ivorian left-back Gislan Konan.
Victory will be the fifth professional stop for the Colombian goalkeeper, following he moved between 4 Latin and European clubs, starting with the Colombian team Atlético Nacional in 2006, following which he packed his bags heading towards the old continent, specifically in the ranks of Nice French “2008-2014”, and participated with him in 199 A match, in which he scored 65 “clean sheets”, conceded 237 times, and then defended Arsenal’s den in 70 games in various competitions, starting from 2014 to 2019, receiving 76 goals, and keeping 27 clean sheets.
Ospina passed the Italian league through the Roma gate on loan from Arsenal in the 2018-2019 season, before moving to the ranks of the “Wolves of Rome” permanently in July 2019 following buying his contract from the “Gunners”.
Ospina wore the Roma shirt in 103 matches in various local and continental competitions, conceded 96 goals, and kept a clean sheet in 39 matches.
Last season, Ospina participated with Napoli in 33 games, including 31 in the Italian League, and a meeting in the Italian Cup, and the same in the European League, and received 28 goals, and scored 13 “clean sheets”.
The Colombian Ospina’s career was filled with 6 championships with three Latin and European clubs, where he won the Colombian League twice when he was defending the colors of Atlético Nacional, the first in the 2006-2007 season, and the second in the 2007-2008 season. He also knew the way to the podiums with Arsenal “FA Cup”. Twice 2015 and 2017, and the Charity Shield once in 2018, in addition to leading Napoli to win the Italian Cup in 2020.
At the international level, Ospina was included in the Sunni teams, reaching the first team in February 2007, and participated with him in 124 matches to break the record recorded in the name of Carlos Valderrama as the most participating player with his country’s national team, nicknamed “Los Cafeteros”, and recorded his presence twice in the 2014 World Cup. And 2018″, and he will miss the next edition of the World Cup following his country finished sixth in the South American qualifiers, and his last international appearance was once morest Venezuela, which his country won 1-0 in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, knowing that he missed About the international test match that brought the Colombian national team once morest its Saudi counterpart last June.
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Junior recalls his memories 21 years ago: Victory is my heart’s team
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The Brazilian Junior Doreva, the former player of the Al-Nasr first football team, brought back memories of his defense of the yellow shirt 21 years ago, when he wrote a tweet through his account on Twitter, the social networking site, on Sunday, carrying his first words: “Al-Nasr is my heart team.”
The Brazilian, who crossed the 51-year-old barrier, was pushed once more by his longing to express his emotional attachment so far to victory, to appear from the same podium on which he had previously reviewed his most valuable possessions during his experience, where he wrote: “Victory is my heart’s team .. I hope it will be a year of accomplishments.” The great,” referring to his follow-up and great interest in the team, which is currently intensifying its moves to strengthen its ranks in preparation for the start of the new sports season.
This tweet was not the first of its kind for those who represented the Brazilian Palmeiras team before moving to Al-Nasr 2001, as Al-Asimi club fans periodically share excerpts from his career during his yellow representation, including his famous goal once morest Al-Hilal during the first leg of the semi-finals of the Golden Square of the Khadem Cup The Two Holy Mosques, which he described at the time as “the most important goals”, which is the goal that gave Al-Nasr the pass to the final following the end of the home and away matches (1-0).
Junior played in that period with the club whose board of directors is headed by the late Prince Abdul Rahman bin Saud, and he was with a number of prominent players in the ranks of the Nasrawi team, including goalkeeper Muhammad Al-Khojali, Ali Yazid, his compatriot Rinaldo, and the Tunisian Mahdi bin Salman, and they were led by Portuguese coach Arthur George In that season, the Brazilian player scored 7 goals, including two once morest Al-Ahly in the final of the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup, which his team lost on penalties.
In that season, Junior played one of his highest competitive seasons ever, as he said in statements following that era. With Al-Nasr at the time, he reached 4 final matches “Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup and lost once morest Al-Ahly on penalties, in addition to the league and lost it at the hands of Al-Ittihad (1- 0), in addition to the Arab Championship and lost the opportunity to embrace its title once morest Al Hilal with a loss (2-1), leading to the Arab Elite Championship when it tied in the famous final match with the Syrian Army (2-2), and then Al Hilal was crowned with the title.
Junior spoke regarding this in media statements in the wake of the exciting season, saying: “We gave everything in the 2001 season, we were better on the field than all the opponents, but luck was not on our side, return to the elite championship and see how we lost it, football did not do us justice that year. ».
After the victory experience, the management of the latter preferred to be satisfied with one season with the Brazilian, following which he played with Al-Ittihad, but he did not stay long in Jeddah on a short trip that did not bear fruit, to return to his country, and settle in Recife, his hometown, accompanied by his family with his daughter and son Mansour, who followed in the footsteps of his father .
The brilliant player in the midfield when he was young, he also planned brilliantly when he chose to settle in Recife, which is one of the most important tourist destinations in northern Brazil, and is characterized by the multiplicity of islands that attract tourists, and certainly like most regions of the first coffee country, it breathes football, represented by the Recife Club team, and it was Among the cities that had the honor of hosting the World Cup matches twice, the first in 1950 and the second in 2014.
Saudi Al-Nassr appoints French coach Rudi Garcia as new coach
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Al-Nasr, a competitor in the Saudi Professional Football League, announced today, Wednesday, the appointment of Frenchman Rudi Garcia as the new coach.
The former coach of Roma, Marseille, Lyon and Lille will replace Argentine Miguel Rosso, whose contract has expired.
Al Nasr finished the league in third place, six points behind the champion Al Hilal.
The club did not clarify the contract details, but local media reported that Garcia, 58, had agreed to lead the “global” for two seasons, for 8.5 million euros per season.
Musli Al Muammar, Chairman of the Al-Nasr Board of Directors, said on Twitter, “The first steps to prepare for the next season are contracting with the coach. It was long and arduous negotiations. Garcia will be in Riyadh next week to complete the preparations and study the team.”
Garcia led Lille to the French Ligue 1 title in the 2010-2011 season and won the best coach award in the league, then won the French Cup to complete the domestic double in the same season.
He helped Olympique Marseille reach the 2018 European League final before losing to Atletico Madrid.
He lost the French Cup final with Lyon on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain in 2020, and also had a distinguished period in the Italian League with Roma from 2013-2016.
Among the most famous players trained by Mohamed Salah and Francesco Totti in Rome and Eden Hazard in Lille.
Analysis – “Saud” is the password for the exciting coronation of Al Hilal in the Saudi League
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Usually, fans sing the name of their players when winning a title, but the name of the Algerian Amir Saoud will remain in the minds of Al Hilal fans following their team won the Saudi Professional League title on Monday.
It seemed that retaining the league title was out of reach for Al Hilal, given that it was 16 points behind Al Ittihad, but what happened on May 29 will be remembered in the tournament.
Al-Ittihad was three points ahead of Al-Hilal and needed ten points from the last four games to be crowned for the first time since 2009, following seasons of disappointing performance and relegation.
But the Algerian Saoud scored once morest Al-Ittihad in the 51st minute to give Al-Taei a 1-0 victory, and at the same time, Al-Hilal defeated Abha to take the lead by direct confrontation, and paved the way for an exciting end to the league.
And yesterday, Monday, Al Hilal won the title to turn a season that was almost catastrophic to crowning the league title, and before that the Asian Champions League title.
Al Hilal started the season well and scored ten points in the first four matches, and despite the decline in results in the second half of September, where they tied twice, the focus was on the Champions League.
After winning the Champions League at the expense of the Korean Pohang Steelers at the end of November, the fans expected that Al Hilal would return to focus on its favorite tournament.
*Disastrous period
But the period following the Champions League final until February 12 was disastrous and led to the departure of Portuguese Leonardo Jardim from coaching the team.
“We started the season with Asian participation, then the Club World Cup, and when we came back, we found Al-Ittihad superior to us by a large margin of points,” Al-Hilal player Mohammed Jahafli said.
In that period, Al Hilal lost 12 points, losing to Al Nasr and Al Fateh, and drew in three matches. It was satisfied with defeating Al Faisaly, Al Tai, and Al Taawon, while Al Ittihad took the lead by a wide margin.
The 4-0 defeat once morest Al-Ahly of Egypt in the match for third place in the Club World Cup ended the relationship with Jardim, and the Argentine Ramon Diaz, who led the team to the league title in 2017, returns to the league title in 2017.
It seemed that Al Hilal suddenly returned once more, as it won in six consecutive matches, including the victory over the leaders Al Ittihad, and at the same time, the team qualified from its group in the new version of the Champions League easily following winning the first four matches.
* “Everything is over”
It seemed that the second place in the league would represent Al Hilal a good result in the disappointing domestic season following the 1-0 loss to Al Fayhaa on May 3, when the team became eight points behind Al Ittihad.
“After the Al-Fayhaa match, we felt that everything was over, but Al-Ittihad’s tie with Al-Fateh (on May 6) gave us hope,” said Al-Hilal goalkeeper Abdel Mayouf, when asked when he felt the dream of the title was lost.
But Al Hilal did not give up, as usual, and won two matches, and took advantage of Al Ittihad’s stumble in a draw with Al-Fateh.
The match once morest Al Ittihad on May 23 was enough to restore hope for the remainder of the season, as Al Hilal overturned its delay to win 3-1 thanks to Michel Delgado’s double and a goal from Salem Al Dosari to reduce the difference to three points.
And Al Hilal needed Al Ittihad to lose only three points in order to restore its title hopes, which happened when Algerian Saoud scored at the beginning of the second half to lead Al Taei to win 1-0.
At the same time, Al Hilal defeated Abha to advance to the top thanks to direct confrontations, as it defeated its rival back and forth.
The situation remained as it was following the victory of Al-Hilal over Al-Fateh and Al-Ittihad over the agreement.
In the last round, Al Hilal only had to defeat Al-Faisaly and not look at the result of Al-Ittihad in order to retain the title.
Al-Hilal advanced 2-0 before Al-Faisaly reduced the difference, and the hero withstood the intense pressure of his guest, who needed a draw to stay in the league.
Al-Hilal won 2-1, while Al-Ittihad stumbled once more in a 0-0 draw with Al-Batin, so that “Al-Zaeem” won his fifth title in six years.