The resident player is a "technical and financial burden" in the collective games due to the lack of controls

Athletes demanded a comprehensive re-evaluation of the participation of the resident player with the men's teams, in the collective games (basketball, hand and volley), stressing the need to review the conditions of his participation with the clubs, so as not to negatively affect the citizen player, who became locked in the bench, especially international team members At the same time, it contributes to engaging the human potential of the country, rather than attracting elements from abroad as foreign players with the cover of a resident player.

The athletes stressed the need to sit with the General Sports Authority, to review the controls, and told «Emirates Today», «loopholes in the application of laws allowing the resident player to participate in local competitions, allowed clubs in federations exclusively to contract with foreign players, which imposed a negative impact on the players Citizens, and the rest of the other categories of children of citizens, births and passport holders, to get opportunities to be in the starting lineup for their clubs, even affected the players of the teams, who suffered a number of them sitting on the bench.

The athletes stressed the importance of focusing the participation of the resident player in the Sunni stages only, because his presence in stages such as juniors and cubs will help clubs in discovering talented elements and work to develop them to serve the UAE sport.

The athletes demanded the General Authority of Sports to sit with the federations of collective games, before the end of the current season, in order to assess the experience of the resident player, and to identify uniform controls for all federations, especially at the level of men's teams, in the presence of disparities in the implementation of the decision between the federation and led to the emergence of gaps exploited Clubs are motivated to win results and titles, regardless of the far-reaching impact that a foreign player may have at the expense of national team players. In addition, it costs club vaults similar amounts to foreign professionals.

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