Benfica announced this Wednesday that Argentine player Ángel Di Maria will return to the Eagles 13 years after leaving Luz.
“Welcome back Di Maria,” the club wrote on social media.
“Angel Di Maria has signed with Sport Lisboa e Benfica and is a reinforcement for the team under Roger Schmidt. The 35-year-old Argentine striker is returning to Luz and will once again wear the Holy Mantle,” the Eagles’ website said in a statement.
The 35-year-old winger played for the Italians at Juventus last season but did not renew his association with the Turin crest, opting to return to the club that opened the door to Europe in 2007 and which he represented until 2010.
“Angel Di Maria has signed with Sport Lisboa e Benfica and is a reinforcement for the team under Roger Schmidt. The 35-year-old Argentine striker is returning to Luz and will once again wear the Holy Mantle,” the Eagles’ website said in a statement.
The 35-year-old winger played for the Italians at Juventus last season but did not renew his association with the Turin crest, opting to return to the club that opened the door to Europe in 2007 and which he represented until 2010.
At Luz, Angelito played 124 games and scored 15 goals, winning the league title in 2009/10 and two League Cups in 2008/09 and 2009/10, as well as becoming a team partner of the Eagles’ current president. , Rui Costa, in the 2007/08 season became the first winger in Lisbon and the last in the career of the then Portuguese midfielder.
This was followed by five years at Real Madrid (190 games and 35 goals), a short spell at Manchester United (32 games and four goals) in 2014/15 and seven seasons at Paris Saint-Germain (295 games and 92 goals). naked). , between 2015 and 2022.
When his connection with PSG ended, El Fideo signed a one-year contract with Juventus, for which he played 40 official matches and scored eight goals, even meeting Benfica in the group stage of the last Champions League. like Sporting, in the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
The Argentine international, who became world champion in Qatar in December, is the second promotion received by the Embodied in the 2023/24 season, after Turkish midfielder Orkun Kokcu (ex-Feyenoord).
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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