Member of the Sudanese Mars Club, Ali Asad, announced that his club will withdraw from the Sudanese Football Premier League if the Football Association goes ahead in its decision to assemble all 17 clubs participating in the competition to play the rest of the competition in the capital Khartoum, at a time when the team players continue Their group training in preparation for the league resumption on August 15.
Ali Asad stressed in his interview with the Sudanese newspaper "Echo" today, Thursday, that "Al-Merreikh Club will never play the grouping system, which it considered serving the direct competitor of Al-Hilal team by exempting them from their six remaining matches in the states."
The top and Crescent clubs are struggling to get full points in various states because other clubs play fiercely in front of them, and they often return with hidden nostalgia, especially in the matches that bring them together in the Nile River and Red Sea clubs.
Al Hilal team leads the league standings with 51 points, followed by Mars 48 points, and Hilal Al Abyad third with the same points, and Al-Amal Atbara fourth with 46 points.
A member of the Mars Club Board said: “The capital Khartoum is the focus of the Coruna epidemic and the decision to hold matches in it violates all health controls and conditions to resume activity.” He added: “This decision also eliminates the fairness of competition by giving the direct competitor a positive advantage by playing almost all of his matches on his land and this proposal. Originally, he came to bury the president’s suggestion, after a lot of pressure he faced from Al Hilal in recent days.
The Football Association decided this mid-week to hold the remaining matches in the championship in the capital Khartoum, which managed somewhat to control the spread of the Corona virus "Covid-19" and has logistical capabilities that enable a periodic examination of players and technical devices, unlike other states that have started to rise in the number of The injuries led to the closure of the roads linking it with the capital.
Ali Asad concluded his remarks: "The proposal of the Competitions Committee of the Football Association is not binding on us. In the event that the decision to resume the competition with the grouping system is applied, we will formally announce not participating in the grouping system and we will not play at all unless the league resumes in the same manner stipulated by the competition regulation."
The 71 matches will be held in the stadiums of the capital, Khartoum, which are "Halim Shaddad Stadium", Al-Hilal Stadium, "Blue Jewel", and Mars Stadium "Response Castle", provided that the teams are subjected to Corona checks periodically, which is a decision reached by officials of the Football Association after obtaining the green light from the authorities. Health.

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