Saudi Football

On Monday, the Al-Shabab club management ended the contract with Spaniard Javier Calleja (Calija) to take charge of the first football team during the next season, according to “Sports” sources.
He is expected to take the lead in the youth team, following he technically supervised the Spanish team Deportivo Alaves last season and led it for regarding nine months before being dispensed with due to the results, despite the renewal of his contract for two seasons.
Calleja, who speaks Spanish (Calija), took over the reins of the technical staff of Deportivo Alaves on April 5, 2021 AD, to succeed with him in staying in the First Division, which prompted the Spanish club officials to extend his contract for two seasons in the hope of achieving other victories, but the negative results I hastened the decision to dispense with his services and terminate his contract, following several months of renewal, specifically on December 28, 2021 AD.
Calleja (Calija) withstood Barcelona and Seville, following denying them a victory over Deportivo Alaves when he played once morest them in their strongholds Camp Nou and Sanchez Pizjuan.
Neither luck nor results were on the side of Calleja (Calija) during the last five matches he led in the Spanish League, where he came out with one draw, four losses in addition to leaving the King’s Cup competitions at the hands of the Linares Deportivo team.
Calleja (Calija) spent several technical periods within the Spanish club Villarreal, where he led the youth team during the period from 2012 to 2017, following which he moved to train the Villarreal B team and took over the first team in the same season 2017-2018, to end his contract and then return once more in the season The next 2019-2020 AD, and his contract was terminated in July 2020, and he returned to training in April 2021 as coach of Deportivo Alaves.
In terms of playing football, Javier Calleja (Calija) represented several teams, most notably Real Madrid (c), Almeria, Onda, Villarreal, Malaga, before spending his last term in the ranks of Osasuna, where he ended his field career.

The international Mohamed Abu Gabal, the goalkeeper of the Egyptian national football team, decided to continue in the Egyptian League competitions during the next season, following the end of his contract with his club, Zamalek, and his adherence to his position not to renew earlier.
And the journalist, Ahmed Schubert, confirmed, via the Egyptian “On Sport” radio, on Monday, that Abu Jabal had waived dues amounting to regarding “two million pounds” with Zamalek, in order to obtain the financial clearance as soon as possible so that he might move to another team.
Various Egyptian media reported that Muhammad Abu Jabal agreed with Al-Masry Al-Portsaidi club officials to move to his football team, in a free transfer deal during the summer Mercato.
Abu Jabal had signed a contract with the Saudi Al-Nasr, but he provided false information regarding his previous contract with Zamalek to the Saudi club, which led them not to approve the contract, and to inform the international goalkeeper of its invalidity.

Brazilian Anderson Talisca, player of the French Al-Nasr first football team, told Al-Riyadhiya coach that he has family circumstances that force him to stay in his country until July 29, according to “Al Riyadiah” private sources.
According to the sources, the Brazilian star will not be able, due to his family circumstances, to join his team’s camp until the 29th in Marbella, Spain, which started today in preparation for the competitions of the new sports season.
For its part, the Al-Nasr administration imposed a penalty on the Brazilian star in accordance with the internal disciplinary regulations, due to his delay in joining the camp.
The sources indicated that Taliska’s contract with Al-Nassr gives him the right to take a 30-day vacation, starting with the end of last season, which concluded on June 27.

Al-Nasr Club announced, on Tuesday, the official contract with Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina to support the ranks of the first football team for two seasons, starting from the next sports season, with the option of extending for a third season.
The contract with Ospina, the 33-year-old, came following entering the free period, following the end of his contract with Napoli, Italy, and thus becomes the second yellow capital deal during the current summer transfer period, following the inclusion of Ivorian left-back Gislan Konan.
Victory will be the fifth professional stop for the Colombian goalkeeper, following he moved between 4 Latin and European clubs, starting with the Colombian team Atlético Nacional in 2006, following which he packed his bags heading towards the old continent, specifically in the ranks of Nice French “2008-2014”, and participated with him in 199 A match, in which he scored 65 “clean sheets”, conceded 237 times, and then defended Arsenal’s den in 70 games in various competitions, starting from 2014 to 2019, receiving 76 goals, and keeping 27 clean sheets.
Ospina passed the Italian league through the Roma gate on loan from Arsenal in the 2018-2019 season, before moving to the ranks of the “Wolves of Rome” permanently in July 2019 following buying his contract from the “Gunners”.
Ospina wore the Roma shirt in 103 matches in various local and continental competitions, conceded 96 goals, and kept a clean sheet in 39 matches.
Last season, Ospina participated with Napoli in 33 games, including 31 in the Italian League, and a meeting in the Italian Cup, and the same in the European League, and received 28 goals, and scored 13 “clean sheets”.
The Colombian Ospina’s career was filled with 6 championships with three Latin and European clubs, where he won the Colombian League twice when he was defending the colors of Atlético Nacional, the first in the 2006-2007 season, and the second in the 2007-2008 season. He also knew the way to the podiums with Arsenal “FA Cup”. Twice 2015 and 2017, and the Charity Shield once in 2018, in addition to leading Napoli to win the Italian Cup in 2020.
At the international level, Ospina was included in the Sunni teams, reaching the first team in February 2007, and participated with him in 124 matches to break the record recorded in the name of Carlos Valderrama as the most participating player with his country’s national team, nicknamed “Los Cafeteros”, and recorded his presence twice in the 2014 World Cup. And 2018″, and he will miss the next edition of the World Cup following his country finished sixth in the South American qualifiers, and his last international appearance was once morest Venezuela, which his country won 1-0 in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, knowing that he missed About the international test match that brought the Colombian national team once morest its Saudi counterpart last June.