Madrid (AFP)
Ben Arfa, 32 years old and 15 caps in the French team, had not rebounded since the end of his contract with Stade Rennes, club with which he won the last Coupe de France against Paris SG, one of his old teams.
A true globetrotter of French and English football, with passages from Lyon to Rennes via Newcastle, Hull City, Nice and Marseille, he had not hidden his desire for Liga in recent months. But despite several touches attributed by the media, especially in Seville or Espanyol Barcelona, and still others elsewhere than in Spain, the player had never found a base.
Tuesday, he therefore entered until the end of the season with the current 16th of the Spanish Championship, appearing all smiles with Ronaldo, the very media president and owner of Valladolid, on the club's website.
The Brazilian, 43, bought the majority of the club from central Spain in September 2018, a few months before he managed to make his return to La Liga.
Ben Arfa, author of two goals in the French team between 2007 and 2015, marked the spirits as much by his talent and his dribbles ball to the foot as by his dispute with PSG, to whom he asked the industrial tribunal between 7 and 8 million euros for his shelving from April 2017. Unsuccessful in December, he now counts on the Court of Appeal to win his case.
After his two seasons in Paris, he joined Rennes for one season, scoring nine goals in forty games. This summer, he regretted on social networks to have found "no exciting challenge" for the rest of his career. Ronaldo's aura has apparently responded to his desire for challenge.
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