{"id":48828,"date":"2025-05-18T16:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48828"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:53:41","slug":"di-maria-says-he-will-not-return-for-benfica-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/di-maria-says-he-will-not-return-for-benfica-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Maria Says He Will Not Return for Benfica Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angel di Maria will not return for Benfica next season, the Argentine forward said after the club failed to win the Liga Portugal following a 1-1 draw at Braga on Saturday, finishing two points below champions Sporting.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old, who retired from international soccer last year after making 145 appearances for Argentina, has spent five years at Benfica in two spells, having re-joined the club in 2023 after playing for Real Madrid, Manchester United, Paris St Germain and Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurts a lot to end this way after such a long year. It was my last championship match with this shirt and I&#8217;m proud to have been able to wear it again,&#8221; Di Maria wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still a final on Sunday and we&#8217;re going to go there with all our desire and joy to win it. Together as always. Thanks for your support, Benfica fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benfica play Sporting in the final of the Portuguese Cup on May 25, before kicking off their Club World Cup campaign on June 16.<\/p>\n<p>Di Maria, whose contract runs until June 30 according to media reports, did not say if he will play in the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel di Maria will not return for Benfica next season, the Argentine forward said after the club failed to win the Liga Portugal following a 1-1 draw at Braga on Saturday, finishing two points below champions Sporting. The 37-year-old, who retired from international soccer last year after making 145 appearances for Argentina, has spent five &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48829,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48828\/revisions\/48829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}