{"id":51888,"date":"2025-07-24T23:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51888"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:06:03","slug":"firmino-leaves-saudi-arabias-al-ahli-to-join-qatars-al-sadd-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/firmino-leaves-saudi-arabias-al-ahli-to-join-qatars-al-sadd-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmino Leaves Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Ahli to Join Qatar\u2019s Al-Sadd on Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino has joined Qatar&#8217;s Al-Sadd after Saudi Pro League side Al-Ahli confirmed the Brazilian&#8217;s departure from the club on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Firmino has signed a two-year deal with the Qatar Stars League champions, having led Al-Ahli to the Asian Champions League Elite title in Jeddah in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy because we made history at the club during these two years together,&#8221; the Brazilian said in a farewell video released by the Saudi club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best moment was to become the champions of Asia. I&#8217;m very grateful for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Firmino spent two seasons with Al-Ahli after joining from Liverpool and played a key role in the club&#8217;s first continental title win, scoring six times in 12 games in the Asian Champions League Elite.<\/p>\n<p>He provided assists for both of his club&#8217;s goals in their win over Japan&#8217;s Kawasaki Frontale in the final in May to become the first player &#8211; alongside clubmates Riyad Mahrez and Edouard Mendy &#8211; to win continental titles in Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino has joined Qatar&#8217;s Al-Sadd after Saudi Pro League side Al-Ahli confirmed the Brazilian&#8217;s departure from the club on Wednesday. Firmino has signed a two-year deal with the Qatar Stars League champions, having led Al-Ahli to the Asian Champions League Elite title in Jeddah in May. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy because we made &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51888","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\/51888","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=51888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51890,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888\/revisions\/51890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}