{"id":509220,"date":"2019-08-21T06:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T10:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=509220"},"modified":"2019-08-21T06:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T10:49:38","slug":"franck-ribery-fiorentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/08\/21\/franck-ribery-fiorentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Franck Rib\u00e9ry Completes Move to Fiorentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serie A side Fiorentina have signed former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayern Munich<\/a> winger Franck Rib\u00e9ry. The Frenchman touched down in Florence earlier today for a medical. Rib\u00e9ry<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chloeberesford\/2019\/08\/20\/why-signing-franck-ribery-will-finally-give-fiorentina-fans-some-hope\/#4b2b6e883e35\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0has reportedly<\/a> completed his move to Fiorentina for a salary of \u20ac4 million, plus \u20ac0.5 million in bonuses.<\/p>\n<h2>Franck Rib\u00e9ry Signs for Fiorentina<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeLegend?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeLegend<\/a>\u2757\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FranckRibery?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FranckRibery<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForzaViola?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ForzaViola<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Questa%C3%88Firenze?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Questa\u00c8Firenze<\/a> \u269c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gu5UaSmJkP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/gu5UaSmJkP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACF Fiorentina (@acffiorentina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acffiorentina\/status\/1164107757886345218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Franck Rib\u00e9ry \u2013 Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Every football fan knows about Franck Rib\u00e9ry. The Frenchman is famous all over the world. He is regarded as one of the best French players of his generation. His career started in 1989 as a youth player for his hometown club of Conti Boulogne. Rib\u00e9ry played for Boulogne, Al\u00e8s, Brest, Metz, Galatasaray and Marseille before making the career-defining move to Bayern Munich in 2007. He won the Champions League and numerous Bundesliga titles at Bayern Munich. In fact, with nine Bundesliga titles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesliga.com\/en\/bundesliga\/news\/9-titles-franck-ribery-becomes-all-time-record-champion-bayern-munich-4615\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rib\u00e9ry is Bundesliga&#8217;s all-time record champion<\/a>. He has also appeared in eight DFB-Pokal finals. No one has as many final appearances. <a href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/news\/2019\/05\/news-in-brief-260519\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In total, Rib\u00e9ry won 24 trophies with Bayern Munich-a club record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rib\u00e9ry has won many individual awards as well. He was named in 3rd place in the Ballon d\u2019Or voting in 2013. Rib\u00e9ry also made 81 appearances for Les Bleus and has a World Cup runners-up medal.<\/p>\n<h3>How Will He Fare at His New Club?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a massive signing for Fiorentina. Rib\u00e9ry is 36-years-old now but still is a big name in world football. Fiorentina do not normally get to buy such a big name player. Rib\u00e9ry will be loved by everyone in Florence. He was greeted by hundreds of Fiorentina fans at the airport. New owner, Italian-American businessman Rocco B. Commisso, promised to grow the Fiorentina brand and the acquisition of Rib\u00e9ry will definitely do that.<\/p>\n<p>He brings a wealth of experience that Fiorentina have been so sorely lacking in the recent past. Rib\u00e9ry featured quite a lot for Bayern Munich last season so he still has plenty to offer on the pitch as well. However, this signing could be the start of a new era for Fiorentina. The mere presence of a player like Rib\u00e9ry will attract quality players to Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"xfC0_jCcRMZCMclcHpUcCQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1146471792\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'xfC0_jCcRMZCMclcHpUcCQ',sig:'mBzSTzDlfAlmfxcrwFzkj2X9tv9rP9TamMIN9T2yiGI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1146471792',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serie A side Fiorentina have signed former Bayern Munich winger Franck Rib\u00e9ry. The Frenchman touched down in Florence earlier today for a medical. Rib\u00e9ry\u00a0has reportedly completed his move to Fiorentina for a salary of \u20ac4 million, plus \u20ac0.5 million in bonuses. Franck Rib\u00e9ry Signs for Fiorentina &nbsp; #WelcomeLegend\u2757\ufe0f@FranckRibery #ForzaViola #Questa\u00c8Firenze \u269c\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/gu5UaSmJkP \u2014 ACF Fiorentina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2794,"featured_media":509254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1364,4,5],"tags":[53,111,1301,736,148,136],"class_list":["post-509220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","category-serie-a","tag-bayern-munich","tag-fiorentina","tag-football-transfers","tag-franck-ribery","tag-transfer-window","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}