Sharjah club player and former national team, Chancellor Salem Hadid, said that he achieved everything he had dreamed of during his football career, after he started his career at an early age, indicating that there are four of his children who followed his path in the service of Emirates football: Muhammad ( Not continued), Fahd, Saeed and Aziz.
He revealed that the highest financial reward he received throughout his career amounted to 15,000 dirhams from a prominent figure, after he scored two goals in Al Ain goal for Sharjah, and in one game, during a league match in the 1982 season, and ended in a 2-2 draw, indicating that he played this match while He is sick, and had to leave the stadium in the second half.
Salem Hadid told Emirates Today: “I started playing ball in the early seventies, by playing in Al-Hawari, and we used to buy uniform clothes from shirts, we play on sand without shoes, and I moved from Al-Hawari teams to the former Arabian Gulf Club in Sharjah, Before merging with Al-Oruba Club ».
He revealed that he was influenced during his career by a number of players, such as the former Sharjah players, artist Jassem Mohammed, Jumaa Rabee, Haider Omar and others. He added: "Among the foreigners affected by them are the two former Sudanese victory players, Mohamed Hussein Kassala and Al-Fadil Santo, who are considered to be among the best players in the league at that time." He said, "He scored more than 50 goals with Sharjah, and about 20 goals with the national team."
He added, "His best goals were in the youth goal of Al-Ahly 1982 season, with a ball 25 meters away."
He explained that «the coach of Sharjah at the time, the Yugoslavian complained, was the reason for his appearance and joined the youth team during the era of the English coach without countryside», indicating that the latter was the first to start laying the first block for the Emirates team.
He added: “The game that was the cause of my reputation with Sharjah was against Al Wasl at our stadium in 1976, and I was 15 years old, played the second half and scored the winning goal, while the most expensive goal I scored was a penalty in the Al-Ain goal in the final of the President’s Cup, and it was The first team titles in the 1979 season ». Salem, the star of Liverpool, is currently Egyptian, Mohamed Salah, his favorite star.
Four of Salem's children play football, three of them are still going.
His most beautiful goals were scored in the youth of Al-Ahly 1982 season, and the most expensive in Al Ain during the coronation of the first title of Sharjah in the cup season 1979.