Sharjah team qualified to the virtual final match in the challenge of the most popular clubs in the Arab Gulf League, after Al-Wasl skipped the semi-final during the vote, which enjoyed a record participation of 442467 votes in a strong competition that witnessed an exciting period of 18 hours between the fans and lovers of the two teams, in an attempt to win and rise To confront unity at the end of the challenge, which lasted nearly two weeks.
The «Emirates Today» launched the challenge of the most popular clubs in the Arab Gulf League with the participation of 14 teams are league clubs, and according to the ranking of the teams after the conclusion of the 19th round of the tournament, and over two weeks nearly 700,000 voters participated during the challenge games between the teams starting from the bottom of the ranking to The final rounds, to rise to the final vote both unity and Sharjah.
Al-Wahda had risen to the final vote after skipping Al-Jazeera in the quarter-finals and then Kalba Union surprised the vote in the semi-final round to climb first in the final match, while Sharjah's confrontations were the most difficult, as Dean Al-Nasrawi skipped in the quarter-finals of the tournament and then collided with the link that was Al Ain was taken out of the quarter-finals, and Sharjah succeeded in converting the result in its favor after Al Wasl was ahead in the beginning, and Sharjah continued to progress and the difference reached at times to 80 thousand votes, before Al Wasl approached the result in the last minutes but did not succeed in reaching the Sharjah number .
For his part, former director of Al-Nasr team Khaled Obaid confirmed that voting with this mass of fans and the busyness of the sports street with the victory of his team emphasizes the success of the idea first, which is helping to stay at home, and the second note is the thirst of the sports street and the public for matches and competitions of this type, after a ball stopped The foot is in the whole world and not only locally, as this vote contributed to stirring competition between the masses while making sure that this vote is for encouragement only, but the lover's audience for his team cared and remained with his team until he reached the end.
Khaled Obaid told Emirates Today: “Frankly, the vote succeeded in moving the sports street, starting with a vote for the best player and then a vote to challenge the most popular clubs. Although there are some objections, they confirm the success of the idea. The vote also shed light and reminds old stars like Al-Ain star Farhad Majeedi, who had a major role in crowning Al-Ain with the Asian title in 2003, and was the most prominent star that was talked about during the confrontation of Al-Ain and Al-Wasl, which also witnessed a large participation of voters ».
The final vote was launched yesterday, Tuesday, and continues until Thursday evening between Sharjah and Al-Wahda, in a vote expected for him to witness great competition, especially as there are athletes who interacted with the vote and directed the audience to move to support their teams.
Al-Wasl’s vote with Sharjah witnessed a great reaction from the masses on the social networking platform «Twitter», as one of the tweeters said: “The two teams were the salt of the Emirati football for two and a half decades, the golden generation was one of them, and the most wonderful games that brought them together. Greetings to connect Zuhair Bakhit, Nasser and Fahd Farooq, and Sharjah with its superman, Ayal Mir, Hussein Ghuloom, Azouz, Ali Thani and others, of course, my vote will undoubtedly be for Al Wasl teams.
Another said: “Yes, they are the two teams who fed the national team with a constellation of stars who brought our team to the World Cup. It is the oriental of António and Haimondo, and Hassan Polo and Mu'tasim Hamouri arrived. But because it is inevitable, I chose the king. ”
Over two weeks, nearly 700,000 voters participated during the team challenge games.