A member of the Board of Directors and Basketball Supervisor of Sharjah Club, Ali Amiri, revealed that the determination of the game federation to set October 10 as the date for the final of the Federation Cup, the first competition of the new season, will negatively affect the ability of the technical staff of the king, in providing the appropriate training period. The external camp, which will be held before the start of the Championship of Arab Clubs Champions, hosted by Morocco from 21 to 31 of the same month.
"The current status of the FA Cup will reduce the duration of the actual training for Sharjah to six days, which is not enough to prepare the team to participate in the Arab championship," Amiri told Emirates Today.
He stressed that this does not help the team to reach the required readiness, and strive to repeat the achievement of 2011, and win the second Arab titles, and to make the goals of participation in Morocco limited to gaining friction expertise and achieve the best possible result. Starting on 11th of this year, Sharjah players will be forced, if they want to follow the strategy of the club to compete for local titles, to enter the stage of hospitalization of not less than 48 hours, and thus the possibility of delaying the date of travel to the external camp, and then limit the actual training period to six Only days, x Ossa also that we will have to end the camp on October 18, to travel to Morocco for the completion of registration procedures, and adapt to the atmosphere and a golf tournament before kickoff. »
He explained: «Sharjah administration, last July, the decision to participate or apologize for the Arab Championship, subject to reaching equitable solutions with the Union of basketball, related to the team to get the appropriate preparation period to facilitate the exit to an external camp before going to Morocco, after the management of the club lifted A letter to Al Ittihad regarding the necessity of rescheduling the first competition of the new season (the Federation Cup), and setting its end date in a way that allows Sharjah to have at least two weeks to set up its external camp. He continued: `` Al-Ittihad responded to the bulk of the demands of Sharjah, except that we were more restrained on the date of the final of the Federation Cup, especially as we seek to compete for the title of this tournament, after two successive achievements in the titles of the Gulf Championships in 2018 and 2019, which means that we have sought "The FA Cup will put us at a risk of physical stress and injury, so a longer recovery period will inevitably reduce training days at the camp."
Regarding the idea of abandoning the competition for the title of the Federation Cup and investing it as a preparatory championship for the Arab Championship, Amiri said: «abandoning the competition does not serve our strategy for the current season, as it is following the Gulf achievements, and Sharjah set an unprecedented record of achieving 11 consecutive victories in the last two versions, was Natural return and focus on harvesting local titles ».
He concluded: “Sharjah is keen to represent the UAE in the Arab Club Championship, especially since the presidency of the UAE federation is the same as the presidency of the Arab Federation, but the officials of the Federation to show greater flexibility in terms of ensuring that the representative of the State has a decent preparation period that enables him to represent the basket Emirati image best.
• The 11th Al Ittihad Cup will kick off on October 10th, while the Arab Championship will kick off in Morocco on October 21st.