Marwan bin Ghalita ended his mission early with the Football Association, before the end of the electoral period that extended until 2020, after he submitted his resignation from his post, last week, before ten members announced their resignation, so that the General Secretariat of the federation announced the invitation to hold an extraordinary general assembly next Saturday , For the formation of a transitional committee.

Despite the great aspirations that Marwan bin Ghalita was seeking to achieve with Emirati football, the achievements have affected the teams and clubs in the period from 2016 to 2019, as Emirati football has witnessed a significant decline at all levels.

Bin Ghalita won the presidency of the Football Association in April 2016, after obtaining 19 votes against the previous President of the Federation, Youssef Sarkal, who received 15 votes. The most prominent goals of the former chairman of the Al Nasr Club were to lead the national team to qualify for the 2022 World Cup and win the Asian Cup title 2019 hosted by the country this year.

The national team retreated dramatically in the last three years, as it was 64th in the world, before the negative results achieved by the «white» in various posts contributed to its decline in the ranking to 79th in the world in 2018, while last February saw the best leap For the national team in the FIFA rankings, it advanced 12 places from 79 to 67, and the worst drop was in April 2017, when it fell from 68 to 74, in contrast to the best position the national team occupied in the last three years was its return to 64 in the period from November 2016 to January 2017, before settling into the 71st position in the rankings issued this month.

In terms of the results achieved by the national team, Marwan bin Ghalita took over the presidency of the Football Association, while participating in the national team in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers Russia, as Ben Ghalita received the helm, and Al-Abyad will start the third stage of the qualifiers, despite the strong start to winning the round. The first is over Japan in Tokyo, but the national team failed to qualify for the World Cup, by finishing fourth in Group Two.

The team missed the opportunity to win the Gulf Cup 23 hosted by Kuwait, after losing the title in the final against Oman, while hopes were pending about crowning the Asian Cup title for the first time in the history of Emirati football, but «Al Abyad» bid farewell to the tournament from the semi-final, and finally the team emerged from the The groups for the Gulf Championship 24.

At the level of World Cup 2022 qualifiers and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, the national team is going through a difficult period, by finishing fourth in the first stage after finishing the first leg after beating Malaysia and Indonesia and losing to Thailand and Vietnam.

And compared to the stability that the national team was experiencing in the previous electoral period, with the presence of national coach Mahdi Ali, the period from 2016 to 2019 witnessed four coaches who took over the leadership of Al-Abyad, namely Mahdi Ali, Argentine Edgardo Bawza, Italian Alberto Zaccheroni and Dutchman Bert van Marwijk.

The situation did not differ for the teams of the Sunni stages, as the most prominent results were the solutions of the third Olympic team in the Masters 2018, while the youth team left the group stage of the AFC Asian Cup 2018, and got second place in the West Asian Championship 2019, the same thing was repeated for the junior team Who did not participate in the Asian Cup 2018, and did not qualify for the World Cup 2017 and 2019.

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The results of Emirati football during the era of Marwan bin Ghalita

First team:

Exit World Cup Qualifiers 2018

Exit the 2019 Asian Cup semi-finals

Second place in the Gulf of 23

Exiting the group stage in Gulf 24

Fourth place in the first leg of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers

Decline from 64 to 71 globally in the FIFA ranking

Olympic Team:

Third place in Al-Asyad 2018

Exiting the Asian Cup 2017 Qualifiers

* Youth team:

Exiting the group stage of the 2018 Asian Cup

Second place in the West Asian Championship 2019

Junior Team:

Not participating in the 2018 Asian Cup

Not to qualify for the World Cup 2017 and 2019

Clubs:

Al-Ain won second place in the AFC Champions League 2016

Al Ain ranked second in the FIFA Club World Cup 2018

Al-Jazira won fourth place in the FIFA Club World Cup 2017

* League:

The Arab Gulf League rankings fell from first to seventh in Asia.