Coach Abdul Latif Al-Husseini believes that the Saudi national team paid the price of expanding to attract foreign players to Saudi stadiums, and the Saudi star seated on the bench for a long time.
Al-Hasseini pointed out that the recent Asian Nations Cup in the UAE is the biggest evidence of the green being affected by the decision that every team has the right to own seven foreign players, noting that the golden period of the Saudi national team did not witness the presence of a foreign professional in our stadiums, which confirms the necessity of giving a greater opportunity to the Saudi player in the matches.
And Abdul-Latif Al-Hussaini has a coaching career since its launch in 1997 from the gate of the Riyadh Club and then moved to train the Al-Shula, Al-Hazm, Al-Shabab, Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal clubs, as he trained the Saudi teams (first, Olympic and junior).
Al-Husseini emphasized that the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Cup League championship for professionals will not be out of the competition between Hilal and Al-Nasr, indicating that they are the best this season because of the distinctive elements they possess and distinguished professionals, whether Saudi or foreign, indicating that all clubs must run at least Four friendly matches before the resumption of the Saudi League competitions, while he expected that the club players will not appear as expected with the start of the matches next August due to the long period during which the sports activity was suspended due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.
Al-Husseini said in an interview with the newspaper "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" today, Sunday, that Al-Hilal team has broken the base of exhaustion that may afflict the players due to the overlapping of local and continental tournaments with each other, by achieving the AFC Champions League and fourth world title, while continuing its distinguished bid in the local championships by leading the league by six Score for his nearest rival.
Al-Husseini stressed that with the continued foreign rule, with the Saudi government being given the opportunity to manage a number of matches. "I expect the league to resume at low levels, as players are unlikely to show the same levels and capabilities they were before stopping the league, as evidence that we are in normal circumstances, and with the stoppage of activities on summer leave for teams, and at the start of each season we suffer from poor technical and physical bid in the beginning and we stop what Between one month and 45 days, and the teams begin to graduate until reaching the required physical and technical readiness, then let’s stop for more than three months. Add to that that the teams will try to prepare the players to compete with the remaining rounds of the league, which are crucial matches and as a result of a full season effort, the situation is very difficult and God was in the help of the players and technical equipment And the administrative who will suffer from great exhaustion due to preparing the players and returning them to their normal state. "
He pointed out, "Each team must play a preparatory camp in which it plays between four and six friendlies, but I think that the period of distance from matches and training for a long period exceeding three months will affect the technical readiness of the players, which consists of 30 percent physical fitness, 30 percent skill, and 40 percent team and tactical play. In the last long period, players missed the skill side and field team play and were influenced by the skill and fitness aspect.
"I think the Prince Mohammed bin Salman League this season is one of the strongest leagues and the technical level of the teams in general is very high, so you cannot control who won before any match for the levels of proximity, as the quality of good professionals and I mean foreign players greatly contributed to raising the technical level of the league with the level of convergence between all The difference, which created great competition for all positions, despite competition being limited in the last third of the competition between Al Hilal and Al Nasr, where only eight rounds remained.
He admitted, "I think Al Hilal and then victory are the most worthy of the league title for this season. They are the best level among all the teams and they have the best domestic and foreign players.
Al-Husayni moved to a new point and said, "The decision to continue the seven foreigners in the league has positive and negative aspects, perhaps the most prominent of which is that it limited the participation of the local player and this affected the performance of our national team so we got out of the Asian Nations Cup in the UAE and we lost the presence of the striker in that tournament because the local striker does not He plays mainly and all clubs depend on foreign attackers. "
Al-Husayni presented a proposal to the Saudi Football Association to hold a reserve league competition similar to what is happening in Europe “so that we can help the Saudi professionals who do not have the opportunity to participate with their teams in the professional league so that their participation in this league is the best preparation for them to participate with the Saudi national teams.” .