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Super Falcons star Ashleigh Plumptre announced signing for Al-Ittihad with 'Salam Alaykum'.
Super Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre completed a move to Saudi Women’s Premier League side Al-Ittihad Ladies, and she announced the move using the Muslim greeting.
Plumptre’s move to Saudi Arabia follows a blameless World Cup outing with the Nigerian women’s national team and the running out of her contract with Leicester City, four years after joining the club from LA Galaxy.
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Plumptre says Asalam Alaykum
The Saudi team unveiled Plumptre’s signing with a one-minute video that began with suspenseful music and the player’s silhouette generated by the choice of lighting.
She then emerged from the darkness with a smile and attempted to say the Muslim greeting, ‘Salam Alaykum’. Plumptre failed her first attempt, but on her second try, she pronounced the Arabic words, which mean ‘peace be unto you’, beautifully.
The 26-year-old English-born defender looks to already be warming herself up to the culture of her new home, making an effort to speak the language, and declaring that she has opened herself up to learning about football in that part of the world.
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Al-Ittihad, the men’s team of Plumptre’s new team, have already signed Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema and a world champion in Kante. Neymar is already at Al-Hilal and Cristiano Ronaldo is plying his trade at Al-Nassr.
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