2023-12-06 21:01:34
Yasser Al-Mashal, President of the Saudi Football Federation, explained that the recent workshop held with the Saudi Professional League and the coaches of the Saudi Roshen League teams did not decide or vote on the increase of foreign players, but only their views were taken, noting that the Italian Robert Mancini, coach The first team believes that 8 foreign players are enough.
Al-Mashal said to Al-Riyadiyah, in exclusive statements: “There are 18 technical experts on the field, and it is very important to listen to their point of view in order to develop a road map for the future of Saudi football in terms of the number of clubs in the coming years, and the number of local players on the list of clubs to participate.” Is the reserve league worthwhile or not? And other ideas.”
Regarding the national team coach Mancini’s mention during the workshop of his suffering from the Saudi player’s limited number of playing minutes in the league, and the Al-Fateh coach putting forward the idea of benefiting from loaning players between clubs, Al-Mashal replied: “The idea exists today. For example, the player Mukhtar Ali in Al-Fateh is loaned from Al-Nasr, and Abdul-Ilah Hawsawi from Al-Ittihad to the Gulf, Mancini chose them, and to confirm their words, the clubs on loan give opportunities to the players, and one of the coaches mentioned that in one season he had nine players in the midfield, and he could only play with 3 players, and the remaining six he could not choose unless one of the players was injured. The three basic ones.” When asked about the statement of Ibrahim Al-Qasim, the Secretary-General, who stated that the Football Association was the one who nominated Salem Al-Dosari for the Best Player in Asia Award, the President of the Football Association responded: “There is no such thing as a nomination according to your personal desire. There is a system from the Asian Confederation for the award that applies to all federations. For example, the award for the best coach was nominated by the Japanese Federation, and the Continental Federation system sends messages to all 47 Asian federations and asks whoever the local federation deems possible to compete for the awards, and each federation has an evaluation, and we in the Saudi Federation, according to statistics and technical reports, found that Salem Al-Dosari, a player Al-Hilal and the captain of the Saudi national team are eligible to receive the award, and we did not know whether he would receive the award or not until the time of the announcement at the ceremony, and so as not to confuse people, all those who received awards at the ceremony were candidates from their local federations.” He added: “I will give an example of the award for the best federation in sports marketing, for example. If we do not have a great opportunity to obtain and compete for it, we will not be nominated. No federation will put its name in an award unless it knows the great opportunity to obtain it, and we found the opportunity in the awards for best player and best. A coach in Asia, represented by Captain Saad Al-Shehri, coach of the Olympic team, and we saw Salem deservedly receiving the award, and we saw Captain Saad Al-Shehri competing with coaches at the first team level.”
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