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Moroccan goalkeeper Yassin Bounou is preparing for his new adventure with Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia, after the Al-Asimi club announced on Thursday evening, August 17, that he had signed a contract with the former Seville goalkeeper for 3 years, in a deal that cost the capital’s blue treasury 21 million euros, according to various press reports.

Bono will join a group of football stars, with whom Al Hilal was able to sign during the current summer Mercato, most notably Brazilian star Neymar Jr., Senegalese defender Kalidou Coulibaly, in addition to Serbian midfielder Sergei Milinkovic Savic.

The Moroccan international’s accession to “Al-Zaeem” was not expected at the beginning of this summer, but Bono captured the interest of Al-Hilal in the past days, and the deal was quickly settled, and he reviews you “winwinThrough the following lines, the most prominent reasons that led the Al-Asmi club to sign the goalkeeper, who was crowned fourth in the Qatar World Cup 2022.

1- The low performance of Abdullah Al-Mayouf

During the 2023 Arab Club Championship competitions.King Salman CupCrescent guard did not submit, Abdullah Al-Mayoufthe usual level, and was subjected to public criticism, and many considered it a reason for shaking his team’s net, and the matter continued in the Abha match, in the first round of Saudi Professional League “Roshan League”, in which “Al-Zaeem” won 3-1, as some saw that Al-Mayouf was able to block Tunisian Saad Baqir’s shot, which came from Abha’s only goal in the match.

Sources close to Al-Hilali House revealed that the team’s coach, Portuguese Jorge Jesus, demanded the necessity of strengthening the goalkeeper position after the end of the Arab Championship, especially with the repeated injuries of the substitute goalkeeper, Muhammad Al-Owais, which prompted the club’s management to consider contracting with Bono.

2- Yassin Bounou has great experience

Goalkeeping strength has always been an important factor for any team to achieve victories on the green. Therefore, Al-Hilal’s decision to include Bono, who has great experience, whether at the international level with the “Atlas Lions” team, or in his career with Seville, which makes his presence with “Al-Zaeem” a strong technical addition to the team.

During his career with Seville, Bono played 142 games across all competitions, conceded 141 goals, kept 58 clean sheets, and won the European League Cup twice. As for the Moroccan national team, the 32-year-old goalkeeper was one of the most important reasons behind achieving fourth place. In the World Cup in Qatar, in an achievement that has not happened before on the part of any Arab or African team.

3- Competitors have a strong offensive quality

The current summer Mercato witnessed the direction of a number of the most prominent football stars to the Roshan League, after the club privatization project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi Investment Fund’s acquisition of Al-Hilal, Al-Nasr, Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahly clubs.

This led to Al-Hilal’s competitors contracting heavy-caliber stars in the offensive line, such as the Frenchman Karim Benzema joining the federation, and Al-Ahly contracting with the Brazilian Roberto Firmino and the Algerian Riyad Mahrez, while Senegalese Sadio Mane joined the Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo, who started the contracting boom in Saudi Arabia. After attending Al-Nassr last January.

Certainly, Al-Hilal knew that he needed to support the goalkeeping position, and he brought a goalkeeper who could be a strong dam in front of the major attacking names of his competitors, and he had what he wanted by contracting with Bono, who faced the best strikers in the world during his career in European football.

2023-08-18 12:27:51

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