Former national football team member Dr. Salim Al Shamsi confirmed that "the national team has emerged from all recent entries with a sense of nostalgia," starting with the exit from the 2018 World Cup qualifiers in Russia through the Gulf Cup and ending with the Asian Cup 2019, The Sunni stage as well.
He described the stage of the team in the era of Zaccheroni is not technically convincing and did not achieve the desired goals, stressing the importance of a change in management and technical, in the coming period, by the Football Association.
He added: "The federation unfortunately did not maintain the previous gains and did not seek to develop for the better, and saw the past period a significant decline of national teams in various football, so the change is very important at this stage.