Star Al Wehda participated in all his team's matches ... and the numbers confirm his brilliance
Al-Awadi: Ismail Matar "sowed" and did not reap .. And Pinto blew up the saying "He who is very serious"
Ismail Matar.
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Ahmed Al-Awadi: “If coach Pinto was following the league matches well, I would have chosen Ismail Matar.”
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Al-Wahda player, Ismail Matar (37 years), was again deprived of defending the national team shirt, after the decision of the Colombian coach, Jorge Luis Pinto, not to include the player on the list that summoned him to go to an internal preparation camp in Dubai, during the period from 9 to 16 this month, In preparation for the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.
The leader of Al-Annabi did not spare the remarkable brilliance that he appeared at the beginning of this season, and his performances were praised by everyone, and I nominated him to be at the top of the selected list of the white camp.
Ismail Matar's last appearance with the national team dates back to January 2019, when he appeared in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup hosted by the UAE.
In an interview with Abu Dhabi Sports Channel, Pinto refused to announce the reasons for not joining the Al-Wahda player to the national team camp.
Ismail Matar suffered for many years with foreign coaches, whether at the national team level or at the club level.
The former coach of the Dutch national team, Bert Van Marwijk, ignored calling Matar at the level of official and friendly matches and even national team rallies, since he was signed in March of last year, until his departure in December of the same year.
Croatian Ivan Jovanovic followed in the footsteps of Marvik, ignoring calling Matar, during the short period in which he took over as coach of the national team, from the end of last December to April of this year.
The current period is considered to be the best for Ismail Matar in the course of his football career, in light of the remarkable levels he presents with the unit on the technical and physical levels, despite his 37 years of age.
Matar played five main matches in the league this season out of five rounds, playing four of them over the course of 90 minutes, and was substituted in only one match, for a total of 443 minutes played.
For his part, the former general supervisor of football at Bani Yas Club, football analyst Dr. Ahmed Al-Awadi, confirmed that not summoning Ismail Matar to the national team during that period was a shocking decision for the football street in general and the athletes in particular.
He told "Emirates Today": "It is clear from this decision that the coach did not follow the league well, and that he chose names that he knows, using this work, and if he followed the league matches well, he would choose Ismail Matar and other players who have presented levels that deserve to have a chance with the national team." .
He added, "We are convinced that choosing the players of the national team is an inherent right of the coach of the national team, and it is our right and the right of all state players to know the criteria on the basis of which the members of the national team are chosen, instead of the current debate in the sports street to ignore Ismail Matar specifically to this degree."
Al-Awadi asks: "If Pinto is seeking, as he is called, to build a new team for the national team during that period, then why did he summon six players over the age of 30 years?"
He explained: “What matters to us now is that we pass the current stage of the World Cup qualifiers, without looking at the age of the players, and that the standard is their levels, and without courtesy, Ismail Matar was the best person leading the national team at this time, to cross that difficult and critical phase of the qualifiers. ».
Al-Awadi confirmed that the Colombian coach, Luis Pinto, blew out all the aphorisms that "whoever found" and "who sowed a harvest", and unfortunately, such two sayings did not apply to Ismail, because he simply did not find and sow and did not reap.
He said, "What I fear is that the young players will be affected by the situations that Ismail Matar was exposed to, and they will become frustrated because they will feel that there is no benefit from their brilliance as long as there are hard-working people who do not have a share of the national team."
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Matches out of five rounds, Ismail Matar played in the league, with a total of 443 minutes.
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