The first team coach of the Al-Arabi club, Croatian Predrag Stilinovetj, revealed his aspiration to build a strong team capable of qualifying for the Arab Gulf League in the near future, to achieve the aspirations of the management of the club and its fans, and to follow in the footsteps of his fellow coach Al-Kronoslav, after the success achieved by the latter with the dean this season, And winning the Arabian Gulf Cup.

Al-Arabi is ranked sixth in the first division league championship ranking, a position he has not reached for several seasons, as he was not leaving the last three.

"Do not be surprised if you watched Al Arabi in the limelight in the near future, and this matter is possible if the team continues to train and accomplish with the same pace and style," Stellinovetj, who has been leading the Arab for one and a half season, told Emirates Today.

He expressed his happiness for the great cooperation offered by the club's board of directors, and its assistance in implementing his plan by cultivating the spirit of challenge and success among the players, and motivating them to raise the technical and tender returns, and added: “I have laid out my plan for more than one season, and it was not limited to a season in itself, and last season I focused on restoring the sportsmanship of the team’s ranks by creating the spirit of one family, for I am not only playing the coach’s role, but my role as the father or brother of all team members, in addition to enhancing the confidence of players that they are able to be better than they are ».

And Stilinovetj added: “Since I came to Al-Arabi Club, I have been studying existing cases and available capabilities, and I came out with an analyzed technical outcome, and I am working on applying them since the beginning of the current season, including that the team loses in the last minutes, either because of a loss of focus or physical fitness, and we dealt with these two matters Together, we started playing with a real tactic that the team missed previously, as I chose players who want to play football, and not those who spend time on the field waiting for their rewards to be received at the end of the month, and every time I tell them that they should not be satisfied without winning, and that their aspiration is always the center First, this is a culture Talobh in football, and we apply in Croatia and came to fruition in the last World Cup, when Croatia's national team qualified for the final ».

He added: "recovering a team from the late centers and getting it to the top does not bring luck but rather work, and I have already gone through the same experience with six different teams, during my training career, in order for the coach to succeed in his work, he needs to see his team win." He indicated that he does not recognize a saying The result before performance, stressing that the escalation in results and performance together encourages meaningful training work.

Regarding his aspirations this season, Stellinaultje said: "I hope we achieve at least the fifth position, or a higher position than that, which is a condition for continuing in the coming seasons.", Stressing that the team's rise to the Arab Gulf League requires its support with four influential players, to complete their squad Current ».

Stilinovetj spoke about the Croatian national team, saying: “I trust that the Croatian national team will remain in the forefront in the coming years, and that it will have an interesting and distinguished role in the next European Championship, because of the influential work of the national team coach Zlatko, and I hope that the national team of Croatia remains large in the world.”

I chose players who want to play football, not those who are awaiting their bonus payments at the end of the month.