Hussein Ghuloom, the midfielder of Sharjah Club and the former national football team, revealed that the biggest financial reward he received throughout his football career was half a million dirhams, which came in honor of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, on the occasion of the national team’s qualification to the World Cup «Italy 90 », noting that reaching the World Cup was the most beautiful event in his life as a player, while the most beautiful goal he scored was in Al Ain’s goal in the 86-87 season when he received the ball at midfield and dribbled four players, including the goalkeeper, and described its time as“ a goal Maradona".
Hussein Ghuloom told «Emirates Today»: «One of the situations that I will not forget and will remain stuck in my mind is the moments of the historic reception that the Emirates team’s mission that returned with a private plane from Singapore in the year 89 after the national team’s qualification for the World Cup qualified, as everyone was happy and happy.
He added, "I scored seven or eight goals with the team by virtue of being a midfielder on the left side, but one of the goals that I will not forget is also a goal I scored in Al Wasl goal and I achieved a draw for Sharjah during a match for the Sharjah and Al Wasl teams in the 89-90 season, after Sharjah was To be late, with no response. ”
Hussein Ghuloom confirmed that he is very proud of a report previously published by the International Football Association on his page, which he described as one of the best players in the world who are good at playing with the left foot.
As for whether his sons Khalid and Abdullah imitate him in the way of playing with the left foot that he is famous for, Hussein Ghuloom continued saying: “Khaled plays with the right foot, and he is a midfield player, while Abdullah is fluent in playing my way, which is playing with the left foot, but he plays in the defense line, and my son Three other children did not continue in football, in order to complete each of them academic studies ».
On his beginnings with the Sharjah Club, Hussein Ghuloom revealed that he always liked to play freely within the Al-Hawari team and did not want to be restricted to playing in the club, and therefore he was reluctant to join the Sharjah team, as he used to play freely whenever he wanted but some of his friends persuaded him to join the club, pointing Until his start with Sharjah Club was playing for the youth U-18 team in the year 84-85, and then he moved to the first team that included a group of high-level players, among them Mubarak Al-Aswad and Saif Jasim, indicating that he was one of the coaches who had the credit In his career, the Egyptian coach Mahmoud Al-Gohar learned a lot from them J, as well as Hussein and Saeed Double.
Hussein Ghuloom indicated that his career with the national team began in the year 88 when he was playing for the youth team in an external camp in Brazil, due to a goal he scored against the Brazilian Flamingo team during a friendly match for the youth team who was playing with him and witnessed the first team coach at the time, Mario Zagallo, who was present The match, and decided to include him for the national team, indicating that his first appearance with the first team was during the Asian Cup in 88.
Hussein Ghuloom revealed that he played with the first team in his three matches in the World Cup 90 against Colombia, Germany and Yugoslavia, and he did not sit on the bench.
On the secret of the strong relationship between him and the coaches of the national team at the time, Mario Zagallo and his successor, Carlos Alberto says: “I was known to be a fighting player on the field during the 90's, even in regular exercises, and each of Zagallo's Carlos Alberto loved the fighting player, and this is the secret of the strong relationship between me and them.”
And on the most difficult situations that he went through, Hussein Ghuloom explained: “A week before the national team’s match with Kuwait, which was held at Sharjah stadium in the qualifiers for the World Cup 90, I was injured in the macrophages, and I traveled to the British capital London to receive treatment and did not play this game, and it was stopped It was difficult, as I suffered a lot because I was not with the national team despite the importance of the match and dreamed of being in its time in the World Cup for the first time ».
Hussein Ghuloom pointed out that «one of the sad and difficult scenes for him in his football career was the decline of Sharjah at the time to the second division in the year 99, even though the team before that won the title of the President’s Cup».
On the difference between the players of the previous generation, the 90th generation and the current generation, Hussein Ghuloom said: “The 90th generation is a thousand times better than the current generation, as it is a generation that enjoys the love of challenge in football. As for the players of the current generation, their view of football is material.”
Hussein Ghuloom described Spanish player Andres Iniesta as his world favorite.
Former international star:
• "The moment the World Cup qualifying team received 90 stances that I will not forget."
• "Sharjah's decline to the second division in 99 of the most difficult scenes sad."