Emirati stadiums witness a rare phenomenon in the technical area, with father and son coaching goalkeepers in two different clubs, where Iraqi Samir Shaker, former Olympic team coach, qualify the guards of the reserve team in Sharjah Club, while his son Zaid (30 years), as a coach of the age stages guards Khorfakkan Club.
`` I am proud to be the oldest goalkeeper at the Emirates Stadium and graduated by dozens of goalkeepers, most of whom have become a big affair with national teams such as Majid Nasser and Ali, '' said Samir Shaker, who has 26 years of training experience. Khasif, Khalid Issa and Mohammed Yousif, and I still look forward to accumulated experience to graduate other goalkeepers ».
“I have been in Bali since my first day as a goalkeeper coach in the UAE (26 years ago), with the Emirates Club for two years before moving to Al Ain for three years, to offer myself the best experience I have learned to explore and train goalkeepers in UAE clubs, and to teach my son, To be a coach of the goalkeepers, not a goalkeeper, I started it when he was six years old, realizing that building a professional coach leads to professional goalkeepers. ”
Asked about his son Zaid's ability to train goalkeepers early, Samir Shaker said: “This is a story that makes me happy whenever I remember it. It started at Al Ain in 1997, when I trained the leader for three years. I was instructed to bring the balls in. He also helped me put the equipment in place before the exercises started, and I noticed that he was asking about the movements and applied them, despite his youth, before playing in the Sunni stages of Al Ain Club, but he did not get the opportunity of official posts, to not allow in Those seasons for the resident player ».
He then went on to coach Moretmo and Benfica in Portugal, where he played as a goalkeeper, then moved to Al Taybeh, Al Hussein and finally Al Faisali in Jordan, before taking charge of a 13-year team at Khorfakkan.
"He would have been close to joining Huesca, had it not been for some routine procedures that postponed it to next season," said Shaker.
Zaid: I look forward to continuing my father's journey
Young coach Zaid Samir Shaker said he looked forward to continuing his father's work in exploring goalkeepers in the UAE and passing on that experience to them. “I am currently working at Khorfakkan, I have a training project, and I have the support of Captain Ahmed Abdul Razzaq, and my goal at the end of this season is to see educated UAE national goalkeepers early on, to translate accurately into Reserve adult teams.