AL AIN – Caio, Al Ain's new Brazilian signing from J League Kashima Antlers, believes the Garden City Club have the potential to challenge for many titles.
“Al Ain are well known in the Asian continent and I’m glad to play for them,” said Caio when he was officially unveiled Saturday at a news conference at Khalifa bin Zayed stadium. “I haven’t come here for no reasons. Al Ain are a club with full potential to challenge all the titles they are playing for. I want to give my best for them to achieve all their objectives and keep the fans happy.”
Caio, 22, arrives on a three-year deal, and along with fellow Saturday signee Amer Abdulrahman will help replace the departing Fellipe Bastos and Ryan Babel in the midfield.
"I had a great time in Japan, but as a professional player I need to take up new challenges," Caio said. "Now I am an Al Ain player, and I want to focus only on what I will do at Al Ain. It's a great opportunity for me to play in the Arabian Gulf League and I'm excited to begin this new challenge."
Caio was awarded the J League’s top rookie award in his first season at Kashima Antlers, where he scored 12 goals in two seasons.
Al Ain open their campaign with the Asian Champions League quarter-final first leg at home against Lokomotiv of Uzbekistan on August 23. The return leg is three weeks later at the Bunyodkar stadium in Tashkent.
Abdulrahman, the 27-year-old Emirati, joins Al Ain after 10 years at Baniyas, also on a three-year deal. .
“I have been a big fan of Al Ain and I know all the players here so well. I am very excited and looking forward to start a new adventure with ambitions of winning titles with them,” Abdulrahman said.
Ghanem Al Hajeri, acting chairman of Al Ain, said the two signings add “more muscle” to an already talented outfit.
“Caio is young and highly talented,” Al Hajeri said. “He joins us at his prime while Amer, as we all are aware, is one of the most outstanding Emirati midfield players in the country”.
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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