Al Ain Football Club presented tonight the Portuguese coach Pedro Emanuel 44 years to the media after he officially contracted him for a season and a half, in succession to the Croatian coach, Evan Liko who was sacked from his position last month, to continue that "leader" with the European School for the seventh year Respectively.

Pedro is the second Portuguese coach to train the Al Ain team since its inception more than 50 years ago, previously supervising the "leader" by his compatriot Nilo Vengada who was the coach of the team between 1998/1999 and led the purple team to crown the title of the President’s Cup before he left from Dar Al-Zein "and will be replaced by Romanian coach Eli Palaci.

The Chairman of Al Ain Football Club, Dr. Matar Rashid Al Darmaki, affirmed that their company had succeeded in settling the coach’s file for two weeks from the decision to dismiss the Croatian, in order to avoid hurrying to take the decision so that he is far from the principle of passion in implementation of the club’s strategy to reach the best options for achieving the goals Desired.

Al-Darmaki said in his speech to the official website of Al Ain Club: "The successes that were associated with the name of Pedro Emmanuel in his training career, and the common aspirations to win the challenges set by the team during the upcoming entitlements at the local and continental levels this season, contributed to the stability of the technical committee to unanimously coach the Portuguese coach."

It is scheduled that the Portuguese coach will supervise the training sessions to prepare the "leader" for his difficult confrontation in front of his guest Al-Nasr, scheduled for next Friday in the semi-finals of the Arab Gulf Cup.