Athletes said that there are six tasks urgently required, during the coming short period, from the new coach of the national football team, Serbian Jovanovic, in order to return Al-Abyad to the track of stability, especially in light of the next most prominent challenge, with the resumption of the joint qualifying matches for the World Cup finals. 2022 and Asia 2023.
On Sunday, the FIFA National Teams had announced that they had signed a contract with Jovanovic, without giving details of the contract and its duration. The athletes considered in an interview with «Emirates Today» that the tasks relate to building a strong team capable of facing any team, as well as restoring the confidence of the Emirati sports street with the national team, and achieving victory in the upcoming qualifying matches, as a declaration of confidence with the public, and entering the path of correction better, as well as imposing The coach has his personality in leading the team, enjoying complete independence in his choices, and not allowing the names of certain players to be imposed on him, as well as leading the team to reach the final stage of the World Cup qualifiers.
And they considered that achieving these demands necessitates giving the coach all powers, stressing that all matters that led to the retreat of the team’s results in the past period and the absence of his personality and identity, including external interference in the coach’s work, should disappear.
The former national team coach, Dr. Abdullah Mesfer, said that Al-Abyad includes good elements from the players, but the most prominent problem facing the team is that he lacks a good coach with a strong personality. He made clear that he hoped that Jovanovic would impose his character, and that he would not impose names on him for certain players.
For his part, the former international player, legal advisor Salem Hadid, affirmed that the team is currently going through an unsatisfactory situation during the joint qualifiers for the World Cup, stressing that this situation requires a great work from everyone, especially from the new coach Jovanovich, to return the team to its right path.
He said: The next stage in the national team’s march requires players who are ready, challenging and ambitious, and players not ready. This is the problem, because in the previous period such players were called up to the national team.
He continued: The truth is that a player who is not ready can not submit to the field by 90% or 100%, so white is in desperate need of players who give everything they have on the field.
He added: The other thing that the national team needs in the new stage is the presence of a coach with a personality, and not to be subjected to dictations or conditions imposed on him, or to provide him with ready names from the players.
Salem Hadid continued: It is true that Jovanovic was present in the UAE league in the last period, and knows the league players, and he can create the best combination of players, but he must have other factors that help him to perform his work freely without any external interference, or impose certain conditions Therefore, just as the presence of a technical committee that includes personalities with great experience in this field, it can help the coach a lot.
He stressed that the team does not depend on a specific player, whatever it is. Al-Radeef team coach in Sharjah, Abdul Majeed Al-Nimr, considered that the next stage for the team needs very many things, whether on the administrative or technical side, to overcome errors and confusion that accompanied the team’s march in the last stage, indicating that everyone witnessed players apologizing for not participating with The team, despite their presence with their teams, pointing out that the media were aware of what is going on in the team in the past periods. He said that the technical staff needs to have an administrative job in order for the roles to be integrated, and the team gets out of the situation it is going through.
It is noteworthy that the national team occupies the fourth place in the Group Seven qualifiers, and it must win all the remaining four matches in order to compete for a qualifying card to the last stage of the qualifiers for the World Cup.
The 6 tasks:
1- Building a strong team.
2- Restore the confidence of the sports street.
3- Opening home qualifiers by winning against Malaysia.
4- The coach imposes his personality.
5- Not allowing interference in his choices.
6- Leading the team to the last stage of the qualifiers.