Sevilla Goalkeeper Yassine Bono Follows Neymar To Al Hilal

New goalkeeper Al Hilal, Yassine Bono. (Photo: Twitter/@Alhilal_EN)

JAKARTA - Al Hilal has not stopped hunting European players after signing Neymar. The Saudi Arabian League club has completed the transfer process for goalkeeper Sevilla FC Yassine Bono.

The Morocco goalkeeper was contracted into 2026. The signing of the contract was carried out in Paris, France, Thursday, August 17, local time.

The certainty of Bono's transfer was announced by Al Hilal through his social media account. "Atlantic interest is our goalkeeper," the club said in a statement.

It did not say in detail how much the player's transfer value was. However, a transfer expert, Fabrizio Romano, said Al Hilal had to spend 21 million euros or around Rp. 351 billion to get Bono.

Bono began strengthening Sevilla in September 2019 whose status at that time was still a loan player from Girona.

At that time, Bono took advantage of his loan period very nicely when he appeared 18 times in all official events with a record of 12 cleansheets, and helped his team win the 2019/2020 Europa League, as reported by Transfermarkt.

Thanks to her slick appearance, the 32-year-old goalkeeper was permanent for Los Nervionenses in September 2020. Since then, the goalkeeper who was born on April 5, 1991 has performed 124 times by winning 46 cleansheets.

Last season, he helped the club based in Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan win the Europa League seventh time in the club's history.

At the international level with the Morocco national team, Bono has 54 caps with 33 cleansheets. With six appearances at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Bono played a major role in helping the Atlas Lion to become the first team from Africa to break into the top four of the World Cup.