The Spanish international midfielder Santi Cazorla will play in the Al-Saad, who trains his former teammate Xavi Hernandez, the Qatari club announced this Monday.
«We have reached an agreement with Santi Cazorla. He will arrive in Doha soon to complete some formalities and join the team, “said Al-Saad on his official Twitter account. «Welcome Santi to our club. Wish you all the best and that we can get many titles together. Thank you very much! ”Added Al-Saad in another tweet in Spanish.
Cazorla’s departure from Villarreal to Al-Saad was taken for granted for days. On Saturday, the ‘yellow submarine’ published a video on his social networks in which Cazorla reported his departure. “Villarreal has given me everything. At the age of 18, he bet on a boy from Oviedo that nobody knew. It has been a pride to be able to finish my career with Bruno, ”said Cazorla in a video with Bruno Soriano, who announced his retirement from football.
New stage
“Hopefully, as happened with my previous march, it will be a see you later,” added Cazorla, who returned to the ‘yellow submarine’, in which he had played between 2003 and 2011, in the summer of 2018. The former Spanish international arrived then to to prove himself, after recovering from a serious Achilles tendon injury in 2016 when he played for Arsenal.
The player had signed with the English club in 2012, with whom he did not play again from the time of his injury until the end of his contract in 2018. Operated eight times in almost two years, the Asturian suffered a tendon infection and there was even fear that an amputation would be necessary. «Mentally and physically it costs more and more. They are sensations that I have to lie down. Start a new stage », said Cazorla on Sunday after playing his last game with Villarreal, thrashing Eibar 4-0 on the last league game.
Cazorla, champion of Europe in 2008 and 2012 with La Roja, thus leaving for Qatar with the intention of being able to continue playing football in a less demanding league.
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