The defending champion is threatening to withdraw from the continental championship

Shabab Al-Ahly awaits the decision of Al-Asiatic regarding Al-Hilal to complete the Champions League

Gomez joined the list of players infected with the Coronavirus in Al Hilal.

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Al Hilal Saudi Arabia faces an unenviable situation in the AFC Champions League, after the AFC refused to postpone the defending champion's matches to another time, after the new Corona virus put the team’s mission in a major bind 24 hours before facing Iran's Shaher Khodro, yesterday, as a result of a high The number of injuries has reached 24, including 15 players.

Al-Ahly youth are awaiting the final decision that the Asian Football Confederation will take, before the "Dubai Knights" play its match against Al-Hilal the day after tomorrow in the sixth and final round of the second group in the group stage, as if the number of Coronavirus cases increases in the "leader", the match will become Threatened to be delayed.

The AFC regulations and its applications stipulate the AFC Champions League competition, which was announced before the resumption of the group stage with its exceptional system, and the holding of matches in the grouping system, provided that no match shall be postponed for any team that has 14 players in its list, including a goalkeeper, as the third clause stipulates in Article 4 of the AFC regulations pertaining to the tournament, stating that “a team that does not have 13 players, including a goalkeeper, is considered withdrawn from the competition, but the AFC can postpone the match and reschedule it if possible, given the schedule of Asian and international competitions.” .

On the other hand, the AFC requires that two negative scans be done for every player infected with Coronavirus before he returns to join his team’s mission again, and complete the tournament.

For his part, the technical staff of Al-Hilal club decided to summon the young player Walid Al-Ahmad, who was previously registered in the Asian list of the Saudi team, while the club's management asked the veteran star Mohammed Al-Shalhoub to withdraw his decision to retire this month, after the team was crowned with the local league title. From Al-Shalhoub and Al-Ahmad in the "Leader's" mission, yesterday.

The management of Al-Hilal Club had submitted a request to postpone its match against Shaher Khodro, Iran, within the fifth stage of the AFC Champions League, after 10 new infections with the Corona virus appeared in the “Al-Zaeem” mission, bringing the total to 24 infected.

The club issued a press statement, which it published on its official account on the social networking site “Twitter”, in which it stated: “The Board of Directors asked the AFC to postpone the Iranian Shaher Khodro match on Sunday, after the tests conducted by the Crescent Mission indicated that 10 members of the mission had been infected with the Corona virus, Among them are the trio, Ali Al-Blaihi, Muteb Al-Mafrej, and Pavitimbi Gomez.

He added: “Also, the injuries included members of the technical, administrative and medical apparatus, including Christian, Matthew, Paolo, Ahmed Moussa, Badr Al-Khatib, Oscar, and Victor, bringing the total number of players infected with (Corona) 15 players.”

The new trio joined their 12 injured teammates, bringing the total number of isolated players to 15, the last of whom was Italian Sebastian Giovinco and Salem Al-Dossary.

The new injuries come one day before the Iranian Shaher Khodro match, on Sunday, in the fifth round of the preliminary round of the AFC Champions League 2020, with the absence of the coach, a member of the medical staff, and a number of members preceded them, and Saud Kariri, the team manager, after the club had announced an injury Each of Muhammad Al-Wakid, Salman Al-Faraj, Muhammad Al-Barik, Hamad Al-Abdan, and Saleh Al-Shehri, then announced the joining of Yasser Al-Shahrani to them, and then added to the list of three Nawaf Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah Al-Hafiz, Abdullah Al-Jadaani, and finally each of Al-Dosari and Giovinco, bringing the number to 12 players .

• 24 cases of Corona virus infection among Al Hilal Saudi Arabia, including 15 players.

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