A player, coach and former president of Al Hilal club, Sami Al Jaber, sparked widespread controversy on social networking sites in Saudi Arabia after a dialogue with Gulf Rotana channel, during which he described the cities of Al-Ahsa and Jazan in the Kingdom as "the most populated and the poorest", in his speech on promising football talents that do not He graduated from a poor talker like Brazil, as he put it, before returning from his statements later, stating that he was "misunderstood."
After the television meeting, Prince Abdulaziz bin Badr bin Jalawi Al Saud replied to Al Jaber’s remarks, through his account on Twitter, saying: “For information .. Al-Ahsa gave birth to the most prominent talents in the history of Saudi football, and it is one of the reasons why Saudi Arabia offers economic wealth with its riches. An apology is better than justification. "
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For his part, the Saudi handball player, writer Saleh Al-Tareeqi scoffed at Al-Jaber's information. He said in a tweet: “I think Sami is a cognitively poor, so he does not know that small cities and villages have fewer populations compared to big cities. How is Al-Ahsa and Jizan the most populous number?”
Al-Jaber not only issued these statements, but also angered the fans of victory, "the traditional rival of the crescent by saying:" Jeddah's union is the real competitor of the crescent. "He added that" victory is not a competitor to the crescent at the level of championships ... the difference is years and the competition with it is only media and mass. "
Al-Hilal and the former Saudi national team explained: "The 25-champions Al-Hilal cannot be compared to the 25-league victory, and our real competitor at the same level of championships is Al-Ittihad."
In turn, the official spokesman of Al-Nasr Club Saud Al-Sarami responded to Sami Al-Jaber, saying to "Saudi" website: "Al-Jaber's talk about Al-Nasr came to distract public opinion from the crisis of the disappearance of the 170 million riyals from the treasury."
He added: "The question about the 170 million riyals lost, ex-head of the Crescent came out of the atmosphere of dialogue, and there appeared confusion, anxiety and tension on him, so more than he drank water, and he repeated the request of the advertising break, then he moved on to talk about victory."
Saud Al-Sarami stressed that "the victory, the chief of the capital, and its men will confront all those who try to reduce it."