One of Morocco’s veteran stars is back in European football after a single season in Morocco with Wydad.<\/p>\n
Noureddine Amrabat, 39, has joined Dutch club Utrecht as a free agent.<\/p>\n
His exit from the Casablanca side came amid a policy of financial austerity imposed by the new management under Brahim El Asri, who declined to renew the contracts of a large number of players. Amrabat was one of them, leaving during a financial crisis that hit the regularity of salaries late last season.<\/p>\n
In 38 matches for Wydad, he scored 4 goals and provided 4 assists.<\/p>\n
Utrecht confirmed the news in a statement on their website on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Two weeks of training with the squad were enough to impress the coaching staff, and the former Moroccan international has now been cleared to feature in official competition.<\/p>\n
His brother helped smooth the path. Sofyan Amrabat, once part of Utrecht’s youth ranks, stepped in with the club’s management to secure a trial period.<\/p>\n
The move hands Utrecht a versatile player with plenty of experience, built up in his early years at Ajax, Huizen and PSV.<\/p>\n
Next up for Utrecht is a fifth-round league clash with GA Eagles this coming Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Morocco’s veteran stars is back in European football after a single season in Morocco with Wydad.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[155193,272924,272928,272925,85,46,272927,105,9461,272926],"class_list":["post-603856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eredivisie","tag-fc-utrecht","tag-fc-utrecht-vs-go-ahead-eagles","tag-go-ahead-eagles","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-n-amrabat","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-wydad-casablanca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}