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Madrid: Real Madrid has announced the signing of Brazil international Kaka from AC Milan.
Madrid gave no financial details but reports on Monday said the Spanish club will pay Milan euro 65 million ($92 million) for the attacking midfielder, making it one of the richest deals in football history.
The largest previous transfer was set by Zinedine Zidane when he joined Madrid from Juventus for US$65 million in 2001.
Milan also confirmed Kaka's transfer to Madrid on its Web site.
Kaka, who passed a medical in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife earlier Monday, has signed a six-year contract.
"Kaka is one of the players that every team would like to have and Madrid had the chance to get him," Madrid president Florentino Perez told radio station Onda Cero just before the signing was announced.
The attacking midfielder is the first player to join Madrid since Perez regained the club presidency unopposed last week.
Perez has said he intends to revive his "galactico" policy which, as well as Zidane, attracted star players like David Beckham, Ronaldo and Luis Figo to Madrid earlier in the decade.
Kaka, who was the 2007 FIFA world player of the year, earlier this year turned down a world-record euro100 million transfer to Manchester City last season.
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