Athletes call for strengthening it to support the citizen coach and the Sunni stages ... and confirm:

The grant of 200,000 dirhams for "amateurs" needs controls and conditions

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The athletes of the Football Association demanded the enhancement of the positive aspects of the financial grant provided by the latter to clubs in the first class of "amateur" football, amounting to 200 thousand dirhams per month, from which Al-Arabi, Al-Taawon, Masafi and Masfout would benefit, while its disbursement to Ras Al-Khaimah Club was stopped due to its withdrawal from the league.

They told «Emirates Today»: «The grant needs controls and conditions to enhance it with new ideas that contribute to supporting the positives and limiting the negatives to make it more successful, including working to give the national coach a greater role and obligating the beneficiary club not to withdraw and revitalize the Sunni stages.

The Football Association had decided to grant 200,000 dirhams to clubs returning from withdrawal, starting from the 2016-2017 season, on a monthly basis throughout the season.

For his part, Assistant Coach Al Wasl and Golden Generation player Salem Rabie said: “I can consider the grant offered to some first-class clubs as one of the important decisions to achieve stability in the First Division because of the many advantages that have been achieved because of them in the survival of clubs with a history in Emirati football, and I was hoping To benefit from it more than the current number of clubs, and he was surprised that Rams, Al-Jazirah Al-Hamra and Ras Al-Khaimah clubs did not benefit from it.

He continued: “I hope that the value of the grant will be raised to more than 200 thousand dirhams due to the increase in expenditures in general, and as it has positives, there are disadvantages that must be worked out in order to spread the desired real benefit, such as obliging the clubs benefiting from the financial grant to assign the task of training the team. The first is for a citizen coach to lead the team in the first division league, and thus two important goals are achieved by supporting the citizen coach from the club in exchange for the club's support by the Football Association, and for obliging the club benefiting from the grant not to withdraw from the tournament whenever it wants, and otherwise obligating it to pay the sums it benefited from in order to secure stability ».

He added, "I hope that there will be a committee on the part of the Football Association concerned with investment that inspects the clubs benefiting from the grant to encourage them to search for alternatives or to strengthen the budget and to encourage them not to rely on the grant." And Salem Rabie said that "it is important to encourage any financially troubled club to invest it." He is not distancing himself from it because of its importance, describing the experience as deserving of support from various parties.

In turn, the former coach and administrator of Dibba Al-Hisn Club, Saeed Al-Watari, said: “The experience is rich in benefits, the most important of which is that the presence of the first team preserved the aspirations of the players of the teams of the Sunni stages gradually reaching the representation of the first team, which calls for linking the continuation of the financial grant and increasing its material value with the support of the clubs administrations benefiting from The grant is for the teams in the age groups, even if for the youth team, at the very least.

He continued: “It is very important to enhance the financial value of more than 200 thousand dirhams to enable the clubs benefiting from investing this to build a team that contributes to strengthening the championship, but this does not prevent there are negative points that must be reduced, the most prominent of which is that the grant has delayed investment in some clubs. "Whoever tied the grant to a binding mechanism for the existence of an investment department whose task is to search for alternative returns without relying entirely on the grant."

He continued: “It is difficult for the clubs benefiting from the grant to raise their aspirations to compete to climb into the professional league as a result of their limited capabilities, which are considered one of the drawbacks that have come to the fore, so there must be an added support mechanism by granting the clubs benefiting from the grant a financial reward for the club that occupies an advanced position. ».

As for the former coach of the Emirates Tunisian Club, Noureddine Al-Obeidi, he said: “It is very important for the Football Association to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of this project in a way that paves the way for its development for the better by addressing the negatives and reinforcing the positives, including obliging the clubs that have benefited from the grant not to withdraw in the future.”

He continued: "200 thousand dirhams as an amount for the participation of the first team is not sufficient. Therefore, it is important for the Football Association to contribute to providing advice to the first clubs with its experience to find other resources, in addition to supporting the concept of television transmission in exchange for money."

He continued, "I suggest that there be a financial grant from the federation granted to the beneficiary clubs, according to arrangement at the end of the season."

Grant pluses

- Maintaining the continuity of the teams in the First Division.

- Amending the players' salary ceiling.

- Bringing back many clubs.

Giving players the opportunity to play on the bench after a long wait.

- Reviving the teams of the dental stages.

Grant negatives

- Clubs like Ras Al-Khaimah were not discouraged from withdrawing.

Delayed investment and the search for alternative returns, depending entirely on the grant.

- It lowered the club's aspirations.

- Delayed the work of clubs in the process of exploring talented people.

- Did not help the citizen coach.

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