The director of the first football team of Al Ain Club, and the head of the delegation participating in the AFC Champions League 2020 ceremonies and the accompanying workshop in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur, Ahmed Al Shamsi, confirmed that the result of the lottery was moderate and logical, and in fact confirms that there is no easy match in the world of modern football.
Al Shamsi said to Al Ain Club’s official website after the draw: “The leader’s focus is on his first confrontation in the competition challenge competition for the AFC Champions League 2020 title, which is scheduled to start with the winning team against the Kuwaiti Al-Zawraa match and Al-Zawabia’s Nodecor in the preliminary round qualifying for the group stage.”
The Champions League draw held today in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, resulted in the destination of the Al Ain team if it won the result of the scheduled match, on Tuesday, January 28th, at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, in front of the winner from the Iraqi Al-Zawraa and Al-Zaynab Al-Uzbeki in their matches specified in the twenty-first of Next January, to the fourth group, which includes each of the "Iranian Sephan Isfahan, Al Sadd and the Saudi victory."
He continued: "Al Ain is a great team and has a wide history in the Asian Championship, so it does not think about the names of competitors as much as it focuses on preparing for the image that enables it to achieve its big goals in the next version of the most powerful competition in the Asian continent, while respecting the aspirations of all the teams participating in the championship."
He added: "The draw ceremony and the Seminar of the AFC Champions League 2020 coincide with the commemoration of the participation of the" leader "in the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018, in which Al Ain scored in ten days the best Emirati Gulf achievement since the start of the World Cup, which confirms that the journey of this great club abroad is linked With honorable accomplishments and exceptional situations when the challenge is in the name of the homeland, and gives the current generation the important impetus to continuity in writing new lines in letters of gold in the sky of the Emirati soccer achievements, and Al-Ainwiya has achieved unprecedented achievements locally, continental and globally, and I hope that Al Ain will return through the Asian Championship to take M his global numbers soon. "
Commenting on a question about the difference in the registration list of players between the local and continental competitions, he said: "Sure, the difference lies in the registration of residents and births in the continental competition, but the technical committee for professionalism of the club and the Croatian coach Ivan Liko is fully aware of the team's needs for the Asian challenge, and our confidence is very great in all names Which will be chosen to defend the Al Ain logo in the continental championship, especially since the goal in the next version is clear and announced by the Board of Directors of the Football Company since its official assignment and we ask God Almighty to pay the best of success to the team in translating high care and support My generosity from the club’s presidency along with the constant attention and follow-up from the administration to the achievements that delight the Ainawi nation. ”
"Purple" box with global flavor
Al Ain Team Manager, Ahmed Al Shamsi was dedicated to gifting the “Purple Box”, which was specially designed for Al Ain participation in the Champions League workshop, in the form of the Al Ain Club logo, to the president of the AFC Competitions Committee, Shane Mangil, after the end of the AFC Champions League 2020 ceremonies. To the heads of delegations of the five teams that Al Ain is expected to face in its continental career, if it qualifies until the end of the group stage.