By AFPMore by this AuthorLONDONFormer French international midfielder Samir Nasri returned to football on Monday following a doping ban by joining English Premier League side West Ham. Nasri will reunite with West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini, with whom he won one of his two Premier League titles at Manchester City, after joining the Hammers on an initial contract until the end of the 2018/19 season with an option to extend his stay. "Coming back to the most competitive league in the world, with a team full of ambition with a manager that I know... "He is a player I obviously know well from our time together at Manchester City and I am happy to be working with him again," said the Chilean coach. Former City and Arsenal midfielder Nasri made 41 appearances for France before retiring from international football in 2014, aged just 27, after not being picked for the World Cup in Brazil by Didier Deschamps.

Source: Daily Nation January 01, 2019 07:18 UTC