Al-Emarat Al-Youm learned from sources within the Football Association that the National Committee for National Teams has settled 99% of its choice regarding the new coach who will take over technical control of Al-Abyad, replacing the Dutch coach, Bert van Marwijk, who was recently dismissed from his position due to poor results.
The source revealed that the Olympic team coach, Poland, will be in charge of training Al-Abyad, and that the official announcement of the decision will take place next week.
The Football Association contracted Skorza in March last year to take over the task of overseeing the Olympic team with a two-year contract.
And Skorza (46 years) has a great experience with the Emirati football, as he succeeded in leading the Olympic white, to bypass the first stage of the Asian qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics, which was hosted by the Saudi capital Riyadh, after he came in the lead at the expense of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and the Maldives.
The Olympic team coach previously trained the Polish team Lech Poznan from September 2014 to October 2015, and achieved with him the title of Polish champion and the Super Cup, training the Polish team Juggenstein in 2017, and also led the Saudi Al-Ittifaq team, and reached with him to the semi-finals of the AFC Cup , And sixth in the Saudi League.
The source revealed the reasons that prompted the National Teams to settle for Skorza to take over the training of the first team, foremost of which is that the white structure depends in that current period on the squad of the Olympic team, and that the coach is very familiar with the Emirati football and transformed it, which made it the most appropriate option for the national team in The next stage.
The source emphasized that all the reports presented to the national team in relation to the Polish coach, all came positive regarding his good relationship with the players, and his success in imposing discipline on the Olympic team rallies that did not witness during the period of his assumption of responsibility any deviation from the text, in addition to his capabilities The highly artistic, praised by all who are close to Skorza, in addition to that he is a young coach, "48 years", and has the constant aspiration to succeed in his training career.
The draw placed the UAE Olympic team in the fourth group of the last qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics, which Thailand will host next January, alongside North Korea, Vietnam and Jordan.