Athletic sideburns

Expected exit

The exit of our clubs from the current version of the AFC Champions League was expected, because the preparations were normal, and even the quality of the foreign players did not constitute a strong addition, and some of them were a burden on their teams, with the exception of the Al Ain team player Laba Kudjo and the Al-Ahly youth team player Carlos Eduardo, and this indicates the randomness of the choices Unfortunately, club administrations bear these poor results, and everyone has witnessed defensive disasters, and this indicates that our teams have been suffering for many years in the defense line, and our league lacks distinguished defenders, and the majority of clubs rely only on foreign attackers.

As for the current version of the AFC Champions League, it is the weakest in terms of technical level and the worst organization, according to everyone's testimony, and it is said that the headquarters of the Saudi Crescent mission was a quarantine before the tournament, and everyone knows the many infections that followed the Crescent mission and the transmission of the Corona virus between the mission, and there are many questions about this The matter, why were the injuries only from Al Hilal?

Was Al Hilal targeted by the AFC to get out of the tournament?

Many things call for doubt, and this is what affected the reputation of the championship, and everyone witnessed the injustice suffered by Al Hilal by excluding him from the championship.

The Moroccan goal machine, Abdul Razzaq Hamdallah, the Saudi striker of Al-Nasr, who proves day after day that he is a great scorer and a gain for victory and the Saudi League, and writes his credentials in the AFC Champions League, and his deadly goal in the window of cooperation that qualified victory for the quarter-finals is the best proof of talent The player and his offensive capabilities, and the Saudi victory is an integrated and distinctive team capable of reaching crucial roles, and it must focus in the coming matches.

A disappointing exit for the Sharjah team from the continental championship despite the many contracts concluded by the team, the problem of Sharjah in its weak line of defense, and whoever wants to compete in the Asian championship must arrange his defense line, and if King Al-Sharqawi had signed a foreign defender, he would have been better for the team.

The weak participation of Emirati clubs in the AFC Champions League is neither new nor surprising, as it is frequently repeated, and it has become clear that the difference between our teams and the successful teams in the tournament is the quality of the players and the quality of foreign players.

Our clubs did not take advantage of the weakness of the competition in this version and left the narrow door.

A golden opportunity missed by our clubs to reach the farthest point in the AFC Champions League, as the teams that qualified for the quarter-finals from West Asia are Al-Ahly and Al-Nassr, the Saudis, Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan, and Iranian Persepolis, and the irony is that none of the four teams won the continental title before.

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A golden opportunity missed by our clubs to reach the furthest point in the AFC Champions League.