National coach Abdul Hameed Ibrahim asks for his sixth star abroad, when he leads the Sharjah team in the Arab Club Champions Championship hosted by Morocco next October, and hopes to strengthen his position as the best coach in the history of the UAE basketball, not only at the level of national coach, but in his superiority over Arab and foreign coaches, passed the game.
In the Moroccan championship, Abdelhamid is looking forward to his second Arab title, having previously won the title of Arab Clubs Championship with Sharjah in 2011.Al-Dahia, as well as the Gulf press, has three Gulf titles, the first with Al-Wahda in 1993. To achieve the consecutive double with Sharjah in the versions of 2017 and 2018, in an unprecedented record for a coach in terms of the number of successive wins, led the king in both versions to achieve 11 consecutive victories in an achievement not achieved by a Gulf team throughout the tournament, which dates back to 1980.
Abdulhamid's career in training dates back to the eighties of the last century, during which he was known for winning 55 local and foreign championship titles, which would have given him the title of "tsar", according to the headline of Al-Ayyam newspaper in February, in the narrative of Abdulhamid's achievements on the Arab and continental arenas. The only Emirati coach who succeeded in professionalizing externally, whether in the Syrian or Saudi league, as well as being the only Arab coach to be crowned the best coach in Asia in 2001, when he led the Saudi Federation to win the Asian Club Championship title.
Abdul Hameed Ibrahim has coached local and foreign clubs, starting with Al Wahda, with whom he succeeded in giving the UAE basket to its first Gulf title in 1993, moving to train clubs the size of Al Wasl and Sharjah, in addition to training teams the size of the clubs of the Syrian Army, Manama Bahraini, and the Saudi Federation. Leading the teams of Bahrain and the UAE on more than one occasion, Abdul Hamid is also the first coach to lead the UAE team to the semi-finals of the Asian Club Championship, when he led Al Wasl in the 2008 edition to grab the bronze medal, beating the Lebanese sports team with a score of 87-82.
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