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The perfect solution to develop Emirates football

Hussein Al Shaibani

12 July 2022

We are optimistic about the presence of Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi at the top of the football pyramid as president of the Football Association, and he faces great challenges in order to advance Emirati football at the continental level, which require the solidarity of institutions, bodies, the Professional Association and Sports Councils, and cooperation for the development of Emirati football, and for His Highness to adopt the project of opening the door to Professionalism of UAE players abroad as it is a national sports project and it is the ideal solution to develop the Emirates football and national teams, as professionalism must be official, and the Football Association must be well versed in the project through the creation and creation of the Coordination and Support Committee for external professionalism, and its approval of the player’s professionalism is something Basically after the approval of the player, his guardian and his club, and that the committee is responsible for knowing all the details about the club to which the player will move.

The player must be professional at a young age because European clubs do not want to professionalize an old player, and the only way and the best solution to achieve the upcoming championships, especially the Asian Cup 2023 and to achieve the strategy and vision of the Football Association 2038, is external professionalism that makes the player disciplined and its external relations A role in the success of this project by concluding agreements with football federations in some Asian and European countries such as Japan, South Korea, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Croatia, to contract with talented players in the UAE by joining these players to foreign clubs from second-tier teams and grading to first-class teams in the future, and the best evidence of experience The external professionalism of the former Omani international goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi, the salary cut motivates the talents in our clubs to professionalize abroad, and the contracts of professional players in our clubs have grown unacceptably, so the clubs have drowned in debts and some of them have had to cancel some team games,The huge salaries have become an obstacle to external professionalism, and perhaps the decision to reduce huge salaries will be a major shift in the future of Emirates football, and contribute to encouraging players to become professional externally, especially since the Emirati player needs such a decision to organize his professional life, and helps clubs to organize their financial affairs, so it will produce There is an abundance of players who want to have an external professional experience away from materialistic ambitions, and their goal will be to emerge, develop and progress a step forward in the external stadiums, which will have a positive impact on the national team.

The decision of the national team and Al-Wasl club player Ali Saleh is a brave decision that expresses the player’s self-confidence, ambition and self-development, and personally I know the player Ali Saleh because I trained him in the reserve team of Al-Wasl. Their release for external professionalism is in the interest of the national team, but there are club administrations that consider the interests of their clubs before the national team. 

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