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A step that makes everyone happy

 Tomorrow, the ambassador of Saudi football and the first international from Asia, Al-Nasr will enter its most important match in the last decade, when the Iranian champion faces Persepolis in the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League and he is with Al-Nassr, the best teams in the west of the continent after they presented the best levels coupled with positive results. The victory in the last two matches was distinguished after the Portuguese Vitoria returned to play in the basic formation with Al-Taawon first and then against Al-Ahly second, but there is what worries the global fans, which is the wasting of easy opportunities, and those in the knockout matches have a risk that may lead to the exit at any moment in which they are not successful Attackers up .. Victory is in a difficult but not impossible task. He is entering a match in which he is technically the best, but the opposing team is distinguished by its remarkable intelligence by catching goals with the least effort. Regar

Football Respect for South Africa

I am not discussing the choice of Pesto Musimani, the extent of his efficiency and his entitlement to become the new technical director of Al-Ahly club. And anyone who knows football and respects it will not be able, no matter how hard he strives, to confirm the success or failure of Musimani .. And according to the rules of football, there are no guarantees for the success of any coach, whatever his potential, with any club, regardless of the strength of its players..A coach may succeed despite the reasons and justifications for failure, or fail. Despite the factors and causes of success .. I will only pause in front of a phrase said here and there related to the nationality of Musimani, South Africa, and stresses that hiring a coach from South Africa is an insult and perhaps an insult to Egyptian football. The owners of that phrase were not talking about Musimani specifically or Al-Ahly, but they meant any coach who came to Egypt from South Africa. The phrase clearly indicated at tim

Crescent rose ... and the regulations fell

 Suddenly and in a dramatic way that was not in the mind and did not come to mind, and in a night that the history of the AFC Champions League will not forget, Al Hilal was removed from the continental competition and deprived of defending his title, with flimsy justifications and weak legal arguments, and a method that was surprising to the press and international sites, Al Hilal went to compete On the court, he found himself top off and playing off it in a weird, wiry style. Excluding Al Hilal from the competition was the last thing that football fans expect in this world compared to similar cases in other competitions, and given exceptions that occurred in the current version of the tournament, as he changed its system and postponed its journey and excluded players to participate in it, and part of it started and the other remained for a while, and when Crescent was exposed to a compelling circumstance that requires exception. The Union turned its back, and returned to talking about

Crescent (first) and (the rest) will come

 - I find that, in front of what happened and is happening to Saudi football, teams and teams are obliged to give up my previous convictions regarding the conspiracy ideology towards it; It is clear that the AFC has become the opponent and the referee, and on your eyes, merchant, after its corridors and backstage have become a hotbed for (mafia), its only bet is to drop and curb the launch of Saudi football amid shameful weakness and the complete absence of our representatives in this union! - We tried to transcend some of his behavior (with our temperament), sum up some of his excuses and justifications (with our morals), and improve intentions in some of his decisions (with our kindness), but soon he surprises us with contradictions that clearly indicate an intolerance and selectivity that cannot tolerate (two words)! Otherwise, what is the meaning of his intransigence and his rejection of Al-Hilal's legitimate demands to postpone his match, and he insists on ending the West'

A "patriotic" achievement for the Malikis and Al-Ahly ..

First of all, we congratulate the boards of directors of Al-Malikiyah Club and Al-Ahly Club and all their affiliates, including administrators, technicians, players and fans, for their deserving accomplishments, for the return of the first "Malikiyah" to his natural place in the ranks of the first-class teams of the Nasser bin Hamad Football League, and the restoration of the second, "Al-Ahly", his historic hero For the Zain Basketball League for men, both accomplishments were achieved by the national technical leadership represented by the Malkawi coach Ahmed Yaqoub Burrashed, the Halawi coach Ahmed Jan, the coach of the Al-Ahly club, and one of the most prominent coaches in the world of local orange football, and this is what enhances the position of the national coach and his administrative and field efficiency. The victory of the first football team in Al-Malikiyah club in the second division championship and its return to the ranks of the “Al-Adwaa” league was

Swimming is sinking !!

 The postponement of the electoral general assembly of the swimming federation is one of the developments in the arena, as it was scheduled to take place on October 21, but upon a request from the International Swimming Federation, the General Assembly was postponed until the amendments approved by the General Assembly of the Emirates Swimming Federation are approved at the beginning of the month The current issue is something new, because the recent amendments are an internal matter. But it seems clear to the eye that there is a move sent to the International Swimming Federation, which considered that it should have been addressed with the new amendments 60 days before the holding of the elections, "and this text is not present in the articles of association of the Emirates Swimming Federation." It seems that swimming will drown if we do not agree and unite, after adopting a workshop for clubs about the amendments and their importance during the next stage, and calling for a

Casillas and our players statement

 Two days ago, Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas made important and beautiful statements that reveal the secret of his successes and his access to the achievements he has achieved with his country and Real Madrid, and between every sentence and another for the 2010 World Cup champion, there were many benefits, hoping that he may benefit from them here. Casillas said that the pressure at Real Madrid has been taking place from a young age, explaining that in the age groups of the royal club he was subjected to severe pressure, which helped him reach the first team and succeed and assume the leadership for many years, due to the football culture that was cultivated in him when he was young. I want to link Casillas’s statement to what is happening in our stadiums with our teams and clubs, in the previous article I mentioned that we suffer from mental fragility among our players, that is, they are not accustomed to dealing with pressure and are not mentally prepared to face it, because their

El Gouna's performance and the reason for the defeat!

 El Gouna team played a big match against Zamalek. It was advanced, then it was late. Then he tied, then lost with a penalty kick in the last minute. Why does El Gouna not play its matches in this spirit and with this performance? And why did he lose in the last minute? ** The answer to the first part is known, because the situation in El Gouna is difficult. A point from Zamalek is worth a lot. And facing the team, like facing Al-Ahly, is the largest showroom for the players. But what about the second part? Why did he lose El Gouna? I have to answer this question by answering another question that was asked to me during the Zamalek and El Gouna match; Where I was asked about the difference between Al-Ahly's defense and the defense of Zamalek, as how did Al-Ahly shake the net with eight goals while playing its matches with a varied formation in the back line that might reach the play with eight or seven players, while Zamalek's defensive formation is almost constant, yet Mona sc

Saudi football is winning

 The AFC Champions League draw ensured the arrival of a Saudi club to the semi-finals, and I always thought contrary to many that the "Saudi Arabia" confrontations in the knockout rounds were better, because they included a Saudi club advancing a step in the tournament, rather than waiting for two or more, perhaps none of them would arrive. Those who do not want two Saudi clubs meet in the elimination rounds, as happened recently with victory and cooperation, and it will happen tomorrow when Al-Ahly faces victory. They either wish to rise more than one Saudi club and everyone shares this wish, or they are supporters of those clubs who fear the consequences of the Saudi confrontations, and these They gave their inclinations to the interest of Saudi football, which everyone wins in its name. The club that will reach the final is one, and from that the round of 16 confrontations won us its rise to the round of 8, and it will benefit us to face Al-Ahly and victory, one of them wi

Football last knee!

You can imagine, dear reader, that in the 100-meter race, the other pre-runner starts and wins, and that is left to the appreciation of the referee!   Another picture: Imagine a basketball match and the ball goes out repeatedly outside the stadium and this results in the loss of 20 seconds of the match and the referee does not care about it! In football, decisions like this and more happen, and we repeat phrases such as (judgment of the referee, errors of appreciation, not noticed, and others ..). I write these lines after applying the video technology (VAR) for three seasons, and it does not seem that many are happy with the technology, yes the technology helped reduce a large number of errors, but there are still a large number of catastrophic errors that occur in all periodicals. There is a fact that cannot be ignored, which is that the football industry is a billion-dollar industry that spends billions of dollars annually and also generates numbers with the same number of zeros. So

The failure of Arab clubs!

 The recent results of our clubs in the AFC Champions League revealed facts that shocked the sports street and sports officials, and shed light on our football situation, and confirmed the need to fully review our football system, our phantom professionalism, and the need to search for the reasons for this great failure in the level of Emirati football and the professional system. The failure and early exit of all our clubs from the AFC Champions League is disappointing, and it will certainly negatively affect our national team, so those responsible for sports, football and the professional system in particular, as well as the sports media, must open the failure file in all its aspects, whether through the clubs Or the councils, the Football Association, the Association of Professionals or the players, in order to put our hands on the causes of the disease, to put forward the appropriate practical solutions for the progress and development of Emirati football, and to put our feet on th

Messi victory or strange Al-Ahly?

 An Asian heavyweight confrontation for the first time will take place this evening between two giants of Saudi football, Al-Ahly and Al-Nasr. Which achieved it twice in a row in 2004 and 2005 and the second club Al-Hilal last season. - All conditions are ready for both teams to win the title and gain the honor of reaching the Club World Cup with its new system "different" from all previous versions. From a "neutral" point of view, I see that the Nazarene team is "the closest" to winning the match, and I do not rule out that the result is "heavy." With the strong blessing of “Saudi Messi” Abdel Fattah Asiri, who is playing for the first time against his former team Al-Ahly. - A test that will not be difficult for a “professional” player who has previously gone through two previous experiences, the first as an amateur with his first club, Hattin, in which he was raised and raised, then moved to the union as a professional player, and thus he will

Expected exit

 The exit of our clubs from the current version of the AFC Champions League was expected, because the preparations were normal, and even the quality of the foreign players did not constitute a strong addition, and some of them were a burden on their teams, with the exception of the Al Ain team player Laba Kudjo and the Al-Ahly youth team player Carlos Eduardo, and this indicates the randomness of choices Unfortunately, club administrations bear these poor results, and everyone has witnessed defensive disasters, and this indicates that our teams have been suffering for many years in the defense line, and our league lacks distinguished defenders, and the majority of clubs rely only on foreign attackers. As for the current version of the AFC Champions League, it is the weakest in terms of technical level and the worst organizational testimony by everyone, and it is said that the headquarters of the Saudi Crescent mission was a quarantine before the tournament, and everyone knows the many

Al-Ahly Club Castle tournaments

 We congratulate the old Al-Ahly club, the basketball championship for this season, and this achievement is not strange for Al-Ahly basketball. The Al-Ahly basket was dominant in the eighties and at the time no club dared defeat it, for over the ten years the Eagle monopolized the League and Cup championships for more than a decade and then they chanted Fans of the Al-Ahly basketball game (if Al-Ahly is defeated, do not believe), and although I am "my friend", and Al-Ahly forces you to be happy and change your mind for this ancient club, reality does not change. The only Al-Ahly club in Bahrain that achieved championships in all sports (foot, basket, hand, and volleyball), it is also the one that achieved external championships in three games, and no club has been able to achieve them. My dear ones, whoever stabs Al-Ahly in the football game, we tell him that history has been fair to Al-Ahly since it was an eagle, for Al-Ahly alone has been competing with Muharraq since the s

An obscure threatens Barcelona and Juventus!

 Barcelona or Juventus may not find any justification for fear of facing the Hungarian team Fernzanos, as there is absolutely no realistic comparison that puts it in the most likely scales, given that it is a team that is climbing to the Champions League for the first time in 25 years, while the two giants realize the size of their technical capabilities and their competitive chances in the European championship They know how to go far in their competition. But before that, the two giants must stop for a while; To contemplate facing Fernzanus, who finally crowned his local title in Hungary, and even succeeded in reaching the Champions League after overcoming the role of Jardin of Sweden, Celtic of Scotland, Dynamo Zagreb, and finally his Norwegian birth, and nothing seems to prevent him from ambition and the cards were scattered in the group that includes Barcelona Juventus, and the Ukrainian dynamokiev! Barcelona and Juventus must also realize that this Hungarian team, led by a lying

Local rule in Arab football

 - There is no football league in the world whose matches are not led by local referees except the Saudi League .. This is a fact and reality, but they are justified. - The “weakness” of the Saudi referees ’performance in“ local ”competitions angered“ many ”clubs. The“ foreign ”referees' crews were included in the“ local ”league from one and two crews to 4 teams, until we reached that“ all ”the referees of the league are from Aliens .. - The “weakness” of the Saudi referee’s performance was not a result of poor qualification or a lack of familiarity with the law of the game, as much as it was “trembling” from the referee “himself” and the evidence is that the Saudi referee leads “with great success” “foreign” matches, then he is not successful in managing matches "Local" so much that you do not believe that this "local" government is the same one who created "externally" - The “Saudi” referee received a lot of qualification through “domestic and foreig

Musimani agenda in Al-Ahly!

 Cooperation, assistance, professionalism, culture, and mentality .. only 5 words, but they are expressive and revealing what is coming in Al-Ahly in the post-Failer phase, and through it we can discover the work plan of the new coach Musimani and what he aims to do in his mandate for the Red Castle.   Musimani spoke to Al-Ahly channel, in the first official media dialogue after taking over the task and before the first training in which he led the red team, through small details between the lines within his words, we can come up with the South African coach's future agenda with Al-Ahly.   * Musimani is a trainer who is open to the outside world, and his affiliation to South Africa does not mean that he is not worthy of training in Egypt and leading Al-Ahly .. He sees himself as a professional and able to deal with various cultures, and it may be his external culture that he talks about - and he tries to respond with it to those who have multiplied A South African coach has to trai

Our sports channel is between the hammer of ambition and the anvil of potential !!

 As a continuation of last week's column in which I touched upon the subject of the only official Bahrain Sports Channel, and as we know that the channel's staff is doing their best to prove oneself and present the best according to the available capabilities and budgets in order to satisfy the sports audience, which was divided into three opinions, between (satisfied and not Satisfied and conservative) at the level of what the channel offers and its performance. Indeed, when times of matches, activities and sporting events are conflicting, and most of them are at the same time, the management of the sports channel finds that it has been put in a dilemma in which it is not guilty, especially when coordination between local sports federations is absent in setting up some sensitive and mass matches in different games at the same time !! Even the sports fans find themselves at a loss in attending any match for the same club in the soccer league, basketball, volleyball, handball, o

“Professionalism wants that!”

 Emirati football has been associated with Brazilian football being the pioneer in the football pyramid in the world. The Brazilians have played an important role in developing the game in the region, and making it a football pleasure that the audience enjoys. Brazil comes as one of the most important countries in the world in football schools, after it developed the way of playing to fun And victory, in order to have a sporting and psychological impact on all football followers in the world, who have come to prefer football over other sports, and a large part of the best in that is due to the "samba people". Here in the Emirates, the influence of the Brazilian School was very clear, especially the coaches in clubs and national teams. Most of the Brazilians who worked here “transferred” our teams to a certain level of development, and introduced modern concepts of fun football, and no one can ignore or forget that influence, their role is clear, For example, but not limited t

Empowering the national coach

 In a previous article, I referred to the importance of the presence of a national coach, and considered the lack of Saudi coaches on the field to be one of the problems that hinder the development of football. The recent step taken by the Saudi Football Association, represented by the Technical Committee, to enable national coaches to work in the First Division Football League, and the federation guarantees their salaries, is an important step in the development ladder, because there is no development for players without developing the coach, which is one of the most important aspects of this process. . In my study published in 2018 on “The National Football Coach in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Obstacles, Problems and Proposed Solutions,” the study reached many results and recommendations, the most important of which were: Adopting a list of the salaries of the national coach according to his qualifications, and forcing clubs to have a national coach Within the technical staff as an

Dramatic transformations shake the entity of historical difference

 Millions of fans of the round witch watched the great fall of a number of football teams that are overwhelmingly popular as one of the ancient historical entities in the game, whether in Spain or England, the cradle of football, and the last of these failures was what happened to the Liverpool team, which holds the European Champions League and English League titles , Who fell by seven against Aston Villa, as well as what the Manchester United team suffered against Tottenham by a hexagonal defeat, and before that what Barcelona suffered from a crushing defeat at the hands of Bayern, although the first includes Messi, the greatest player in the history of the game, which had a severe impact on the lovers Big teams all over the world. Dramatic transformations in the big teams and teams have been present throughout the history of football that extends since the emergence of the game, and even the greatest teams in the world of football have suffered from it, which is the Brazilian Samba

A ray of hope

 * The decision to resume sports and football activity in particular spread an atmosphere of optimism in the sports street, after a long hiatus that dominated the sports arena due to the Corona pandemic, and the announcement of the resumption of football activity with the launch of the Arab Gulf Cup championship scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, in preparation for the launch of the Arab Gulf League Next week, as an announcement of the gradual return of life to our stadiums, which have suffered greatly from stoppage and forced immigration in the past six months, which makes the decision to return sports activity a glimmer of hope for the gradual return to normalcy, taking into account all precautionary measures to prevent Corona from opening the way to control the The situation again, which prompts us all to deal with a new reality in an exceptional season that has not been witnessed in sport before. * All records fell this season against the German team Bayern Munich, and after winning

As usual, Al-Nasr club went out

 We have become accustomed to the media of victory tickling the feelings of the masses with resonant slogans that do not sing and do not fatten from hunger. No matter the decline, you find them beautifying things with attractive frames to hide the repeated breaks. They have proven this on more than one occasion and more than one failure, and they are still practicing the same role, thinking that they support victory with this deception, especially after he left The latter and his defeat against the Iranian team Persepolis, which is not comparable to victory with the best technical capabilities, yet no one discusses why the victory came out? Currently they are humming about the issue of the project to build victory through the flashiness of polarizations, although they lived the experience in a previous period and with a former president, but unfortunately the results were not impressive! Frankly, I do not know why all this drumming of deals that are more than normal and with regular pl

Discount Wednesday ..

 We have the right to metaphorically call this day “Wednesday” the seventh of October 2020 “the decisive Wednesday” of this season’s edition of the Nasser bin Hamad Premier League football competition. Three decisive confrontations, the results of which cannot be divided by two despite the legitimacy of a draw, which would delay the decision and restore the cycle of complex calculations in such cases. "Al-Hadd" is the leader and looking to win, preserving the point difference between him and his closest competitor, and confirming his eligibility for the title for the second time in his history, in the face of "Busaiteen" who is ambitious to secure his stay in the safety zone and continue in the league of lights, even if his mission is surrounded by challenges that summarize the necessity to complete the remaining minutes With the participation of young players, which will compel his technical staff to rearrange his cards to avoid falling into the forbidden by losing

The new season in football

 The new season for professional football competitions will start next Thursday, and it will be for the first time without a public presence due to the Corona virus, which is rampant all over the world, and the start of the season comes after the last edition of the domestic league was canceled due to the epidemic. We hope that the new season will witness several positive changes, especially at the technical level, and what we want is to see real football that restores the spirit that we have lost in competitions since entering the professional era, and the responsibility will be great on the teams and players in this aspect, because the matches will be without an audience and we hope that this will not affect it. On levels. We aspire to see new emerging elements similar to what the Al-Wehda club academy does every season, and we also want the levels to be close between all clubs because the era of great differences has disappeared in modern football, and the evidence is that Liverpool

Which United?

 Last Wednesday, I wrote about Newcastle's loss of the club and the city for the acquisition project that was led by the Public Investment Fund. Perhaps evidence of that is the club’s adherence to the idea and his urgent desire to return the Saudi offer, because its benefits are much greater than just buying a club, here the question arises: Are "Newcastle United" is the ideal club to buy or are there other clubs named "United" available for purchase, and the return on investment may be greater than "Newcastle United". If the aim of the purchase was a purely financial investment, then "Leeds United" was offered for sale at a hundred million pounds, that is, a third of the value of "Newcastle United", which is no less than in history, but it was located in the lower rungs of English football, and I do not know how much it is His value after his rise to the senior league, but I know that he owns the "Island Road" stadium, wh

The weirdness of "Fyler" ... and the ambition of "Musimani"!

 << The statements of the new South African technical director of Al-Ahly team that he had a special philosophy that he presented to the players during his meeting with them in order to communicate it to them and to inform them of his way of playing and that he is in the stage of listening and understanding before making any decisions .. confirms that he is a trainer organized in his thinking and ambitions is great .. and well aware. He leads a large team, especially as he will seek to benefit from all the players and provide an opportunity for those who deserve it and seek to stick to it .. And his affirmation of his respect for the former Al-Ahly technical director Rene Fyler indicates that he is the type of coach who completes the task from where he ended before him, especially if it was largely successful . << Renee Weiler, the former technical director of Al-Ahly team, made statements to Swiss television after his return to his country in which he confirmed that Al-Ahl

The common denominator in the history of cooperation

  No blogger of the history of Saudi football would dare to mention the clubs and their accomplishments without pausing too much at the cooperation and the great leap that Muhammad Al Qasim made throughout his presidency in the eight years, as he placed his sixtieth club in the list of the most attractive and most enjoyable clubs, until the name of Taawon and Al Qassim, his hometown, became frequent In the Asian Sports Forum.   The eight years that Muhammad al-Qasim spent before he bid farewell to his fans with an impressive message that was full of honorable numbers for a team that planned, drew and accomplished after exciting seasons in the league, during which he collected in one of his seasons the largest number of points in his history and most victories as he mobilized the big teams one after the other with resounding numbers, to celebrate His fans have achieved the most expensive cups and reached the Super Cup and resisted the champion victory and the opposite side until t