Figures and statistics of the record of the achievements of the UAE football since the application of professionalism starting from the 2008-2009 season, and so far, that the experience of professionalism over the past 11 years, has not been successful at all in many aspects, and failed to achieve its goals, foremost of which Making a qualitative leap in football, reflected positively on the teams, clubs and the public, and the game turned into a successful industry, but the experience has proved the opposite through the negative figures achieved by the teams and clubs in various participants, especially the inability of the national team to repeat what he did in a time 'Amateur', when he qualified for the 1990 World Cup He failed to qualify for three World Cups in 2010, 2014 and 2018, and his chances are slim in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. On the club level, not a single continental title has been achieved as did Al Ain in 2003, when he won the Asian Cup.

The application of professionalism has not been reflected in the targeted aspects, such as the technical aspects of clubs and teams, the investment aspects, the increase in the number of public attendance and the revenues that they receive through advertising. She was the best on all levels.

The athletes told Emirates Today that the reason for this is due to the misapplication of the idea of ​​professionalism from different clubs and sports departments, including the Football Association and the Professional Association. Way at a time beyond the financial value of the player awards three big tournaments?

They pointed out that the contract with foreign players was suspended from the period 1982-1983, until 1998, before opening the door again for the clubs to strengthen their ranks with foreign players, where the number of contracts from two players to three, and then apply the regulations of the AFC by adding an Asian player, and finally The removal of this condition locally, and the signing of four foreign players, explaining that the most remarkable achievements of the UAE football was in the period when foreign players missed appearances in the UAE, when the national team qualified for the first time in its history to the World Cup in Italy in 1990, while the most prominent achievements of clubs She was beat Al Ain Club won the AFC Champions League 2003, before the application of professionalism in 2008, followed by a big boom in the contracts with foreign players, but without the benefit of «technical or investment» commensurate with the amount of money spent by clubs.

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