The secretaries of the "team games" federations revealed that the rewards for winning tournaments for national team players in both handball, basketball and volleyball ranged between 300 and 1,000 dirhams per player, according to the type of tournament in which the teams participate, as the average reward for winning in Arab championship matches It starts from 300 dirhams per player, raising the reward rate between 500 and 1000 dirhams for the players in the Gulf and continental championships.
Secretaries of the three games federations said: “Monitoring the rewards for the winners of the national teams is nothing but encouraging efforts by the unions, in the absence of special budgets allocated to the rewards for winning, so that the increase in the size of these rewards remains dependent on twice the total and weak budgets that the unions receive as support From the General Sports Authority, or the partnerships that these federations hold with private or government entities and companies ».
Secretaries told Emirates Today that: “The absence of bonus legislation made it hostage to what the federations monitored from their own budgets,” noting that their values remain encouraging compared to the winning bonuses that football players receive, which initially ranged from 20 One thousand dirhams per player per match, which is equivalent to more than the full players in handball, basketball and volleyball.
They pointed out that handball, basketball, and volleyball, which are metaphorically called "martyrs games", suffer from a shortage of human abundance in terms of practitioners, which makes it necessary to find additional and incentive support methods for their practitioners, including allocating budgets that extend reward winners that are more fair to them compared to those that Football players get it, confirming that these games have clear records on the level of Arab, Gulf and continental tournaments, similar to those won by football teams.
For his part, Nabil Ashour, Secretary of the Handball Federation, said: “The increase in the size of the award bonus, which averages 1000 dirhams in handball teams for one player, remains hostage to individual jurisprudence and decisions, and it is subject to twice the budgets of the collective games federations. As the increase in the reward size is related to the type of achievement that the team achieves, in the same way that the players of the team won in the last Asian championship last January, after the president of the Federation, Mohamed Julfar, insisted on raising the value of the reward to 2000 dirhams, with Al Abyad reaching advanced roles in the tournament » . He added: «The absence of special budgets makes the value of the rewards that the players of the hand teams, even the basket and the plane have weak, if they are compared to what the soccer player has in the team, especially since the reward for winning for soccer players starts from 20 thousand dirhams, and can reach Astronomical numbers in the event of winning the Gulf Championship title for example, and it is not limited to the size of the rewards, but in many cases it reached businessmen providing players with luxury cars and other precious gifts.
On the other hand, Salem Al-Mutawa, Secretary General of the Basketball Federation, stressed that the absence of binding legislation to define special budgets for winning rewards for basketball players, and limiting them to rewards determined by sports councils according to the achievement, made the collective games federations hands folded, and hostage in determining Bonus value based on its weak budgets. The Secretary of the Basketball Association said, “The budgets and support provided by the General Sports Authority, which ranges annually between 400 and 600,000 dirhams for team games, has made the federations of those games, including basketball, unable to raise the value of the winning bonus for the players of its national teams, and made them hostage. With minimal values, it ranged between 500 and 1,000 dirhams per player.
He added: “In 2009, the National Basketball Team won its last Gulf Championship, which encouraged the Authority at that time to monitor generous winners’ rewards for the basketball team, but since that date, no additional bonuses for the national team have been monitored, making the matter confined to what is monitored by the Federation as a total value. For the rewards of the teams, which remain held hostage by themselves by weak budgets, or by increasing their values in the event of the union's success in concluding partnerships with private or government entities, or by the ability to provide a sponsor for the team in the entitlement that it plays in any of the external championships ».
Al-Mutawa: Justice promotes sporting achievement
The Secretary of the Volleyball Federation, Dr. Ahmed Al-Mutawa, rejected the principle of comparison between different games. He said: “One of the destructive concepts in the world of sports is the principle of comparing one game to another, except that addressing small details in an integrated system that can contribute to the development of sport in all its aspects. , And thus upgrading the concept of sports achievement ».
He explained: “It cannot be ignored that football is the first popular game in the country, for which the largest amount of budgets are allocated, and its team players receive very generous rewards that the value of a single player may be what the full team players receive in other games, but the availability of legislation And systems, including the principle of reward and punishment in a comprehensive sports system, and achieving the principle of fairness in looking at the size of achievement regardless of the game or the union that he achieved, contributes to pushing the entire sports system and encourages the increase of the number of its affiliates.
He added: “The rewards for winning for the volleyball team reach 300 dirhams for the player in the Arab championships, to rise to 1000 dirhams in the Gulf and continental tournaments. Comparing this value with the reward for winning the football player becomes very unfair. Hence, consideration must be given to searching for Small details of the sports system that achieves the principle of sports justice, not only in terms of rewarding victory, but also in finding ways to support in all aspects that contribute to the development of the sports system in all games, which contributes to the advancement of all sporting achievements ».