Mohamed Sharif: The national team pays the tax of "international" sitting on the bench
Hand clubs contract with resident and native-born players with "professional" salaries
Hand Union fears for the national team players from club contracts. Photography: Mustafa Qasimi
Mohamed Sharif: "Having a (professional, resident, and baby boy) on the ground in a team of six players and a goalkeeper will put most of the national elements out of service."
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The vice president of the Hand Union and the head of the National Teams Committee, Mohamed Sharif, revealed that the game clubs have contracted with players within the categories of resident and born in the country with contracts and salaries equivalent in terms of financial value to those paid to professional players, indicating that this reflects the extent of the clubs obsession in their new season 2020 - 2021 in the search for its personal interest by achieving local titles, at a time when the national team will pay the tax of "international" sitting on the bench, as he put it.
Sharif said to "Emirates Today": “Competing for local championship titles is a legitimate right for all, but the clubs’ wrong investment of laws and regulations that allow registering the resident and newborn categories within their teams and their participation in local competitions reflects the extent to which the clubs search for their personal interest at the expense of the national team. Especially since the contracts of these two groups came with international players in their countries' national teams.
He explained: “When the resident receives a monthly salary ranging between 20 and 40 thousand dirhams, the equivalent in terms of its financial value to the salaries paid to the professional player, and finally, followed by contracts that force clubs to pay similar salaries to the category of newborns, the financial cost will surely weigh on the clubs, which were "It is possible to spend these huge budgets on developing their national players, and even investing in the teams of the Sunni stages, which will then be reflected positively on our national teams."
He continued: “The clubs claim that the goal behind strengthening their teams with such contracts is to seek foreign titles that honor the Emirati handball, but if the clubs want to do so, our international players can be spared the direct negative impact of not participating in the local league matches, and even avoiding The same clubs incur a huge financial cost, by resorting to strengthening their teams with contracts shortly before their external maturity. He continued: “The method used by clubs in their contracts, especially those that include in their ranks the elite players of the national team, will push 50% of the national elements to be confined to the bench for long periods, as the presence of a professional, resident and born on the pitch in a team consisting of six players beside The goalkeeper will make most of the national elements out of service, and limit their role to the defensive side, or to rest their teammates, and thus these elements will lose the offensive sense, which in turn will negatively affect their performance upon their return to the national team.
He added: “Last season, many of the national team players had to play in positions other than the ones they are accustomed to, which caused weakness in the national team during its recent participation in the Asian World Cup qualifiers, especially at the playmaker and left wing positions, which were Behind the loss of (Al-Abyad) the chance to qualify for the World Cup and settle for the fifth place. Nevertheless, the clubs continued the same approach in strengthening the ranks of their teams for the new season, by expanding the scope of their contracts from outside the country, by bringing in players within the category of baby boomers.
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Among the elite national team players, you will be locked in the bench for long periods.
- The resident player receives a monthly salary of between 20 and 40 thousand dirhams.
- Clubs caused weaknesses in the national team during its recent participation in the Asian World Cup Qualifiers.