The Vice-President of the Discipline Committee in the Football Association, the spokesperson, Counselor Hamdan Al-Zyoudi, revealed that his committee has not received any reports on the players ’haircuts since the beginning of the current season by the authorities concerned to submit such reports.
In response to a question to «Emirates Today» regarding the lack of any disciplinary committee’s decisions regarding strange hair styles in the Arab Gulf League, Al-Zyoudi said: “The disciplinary committee always takes our decisions according to the reports it receives in this regard.” And «Emirates Today» monitored official statistics issued by the Football Association regarding the sanctions issued by the Disciplinary Committee since the beginning of the current season without any disciplinary penalties for players related to strange haircuts.
It is noteworthy that in 2016 after a meeting held in its headquarters in Dubai, the previous Football Association issued a decision to define a mechanism for violations of strange hair styles and how to raise them to the competent authorities, and the Football Association then mandated the fourth referee to raise cases after foreign hair styles spread among local and foreign players, Whether in the Arab Gulf Football League or competitions of different ages.
Section 16 of the Guidelines for Violations and Disciplinary Punishments for the Professional League Competitions states that the player who wears jewelry in the hand, ear, neck or with irregular haircuts and coloring is punished the first time with a gesture, and a fine of 1000 dirhams, and the second time a penalty is suspended One and a fine of 2000 dirhams, and on the third time, two games will be punished with suspension. The fine will be 3000 dirhams.