Benfica winger Angel di Maria volition instrumentality to his boyhood nine Rosario Central - 10 months aft decease threats forced him to backtrack connected the aforesaid move.
The 37-year-old began his vocation astatine Rosario successful 2005 and the Argentine top-flight nine announced his instrumentality connected Thursday.
"Our past unneurotic has much pages to write. Welcome home," the Rosario-based nine said alongside a video posted connected X.
The 2022 World Cup victor spent 2 seasons with Rosario earlier moving to Europe with Benfica.
He went connected to play much than 700 games successful Europe for Benfica, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Paris St-Germain and Juventus.
Di Maria was adjacent to rejoining Rosario arsenic a escaped cause past summertime but expanding drug-related unit successful the portion and a fig of threats against him and his household ended his plans.
Speaking past July, Di Maria said: "There was a menace astatine my sister's business, a container with a pig's caput and a slug successful the forehead, and a enactment that said that if I returned to [Rosario] Central, the adjacent caput was that of my girl Pia.
"Those months were horrible. We could lone beryllium determination and outcry each nighttime implicit not being capable to transportation retired that imagination return."
Di Maria has won 30 trophies successful Europe - including league titles successful 3 countries and the 2013-14 Champions League with Real - arsenic good arsenic the World Cup and 2 Copa America trophies with Argentina.
He rejoined Benfica for a 2nd spell successful 2023 and volition permission the nine aft adjacent month's Club World Cup run successful the United States.
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