Indonesian side Mitra Kukar have announced their marquee player, signing former Liverpool and Juventus star Mohamed Sissoko for this year\u2019s Liga 1.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Malian international midfielder was a part of the Liverpool side that won the English Community Shield in 2006 and FA Cup in 2005-06.<\/p>\n
He also won consecutive UEFA Super Cup titles in 2004 and 2005, first with Valencia and then with Liverpool, as well as winning the Spanish La Liga with during the 2003-04 season.<\/p>\n
“Sissoko signed a contract with us until the end of Liga 1 this season, then we will review his performances before deciding to offer an extension or not,” Suwanto, the team director of Mitra Kukar told Goal Indonesia.<\/em><\/p>\n Sissoko started his youth career in 1998 with French club Auxerre before continuing his career with Valencia, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Fiorentina and Levante.<\/p>\n He moved to Asia in 2015 after signing for Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua and also had a short stint with the Indian Super League franchise Pune City FC last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indonesian side Mitra Kukar have announced their marquee player, signing former Liverpool and Juventus star Mohamed Sissoko for this year\u2019s Liga 1. The 32-year-old Malian international midfielder was a part of the Liverpool side that won the English Community Shield in 2006 and FA Cup in 2005-06. He also won consecutive UEFA Super Cup titles in 2004 and 2005, first with Valencia and then with Liverpool, as well as winning the Spanish La Liga with during the 2003-04 season. “Sissoko signed a contract with us until the end of Liga 1 this season, then we will review his performances before deciding to offer an extension or not,” Suwanto, the team … Continue reading “Mitra Kukar name former Liverpool star Mohamed Sissoko as marquee signing”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[91,276,658,668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}