Turkey's Galatasaray signs contract with Moroccan soccer player Amrabat

 ANKARA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Galatasaray soccer club on Thursday signed a five-year contract¹ with Moroccan player Nordin Amrabat, the semi-official Anatolia news agency² reported.

The club stated that it reached an agreement with Amrabat for five soccer seasons starting from 2012-2013 season.

Galatasaray will pay eight million euro to Amrabat's former club Kayserispor as well as 600,000 euro to the previous club PSV Eindhoven.

Amrabat, born in 1987, is a Dutch-Moroccan football player.

On January 3, 2011 Amrabat had signed for Turkish club Kayserispor on a four and a half year deal for 1.1 million euro.

1 contract   

n.合同，契约，婚约；v.使缩短，感染，订约

参考例句：

• The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
• I'm under contract to teach here for one year.我按照聘约要在这里教一年书。

2 agency   

n.经办；代理；代理处

参考例句：

• This disease is spread through the agency of insects.这种疾病是通过昆虫媒介传播的。
• He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.他代表新华社讲话。