Majid Sultan: Dispatching the player abroad for a live experience

Mohammed Abdul Latif, a global basket star project from Al-Ahly Youth Portal

  • Part of Mohamed Abdel Latif's participation with Shabab Al-Ahly in the current season.

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The Executive Director of the Group Games Department at Al-Ahly Youth Club, Dr. Majid Sultan, revealed that the star of the club's basket, Muhammad Abdul Latif (28 years), was crowned the best player award on more than one occasion this season, which pushes the club's team games department, to continue providing all ways Support for its children, raising the level of ambitions and transforming Muhammad Abdullatif into a global basketball star project, by sending him during the summer breaks to engage in living experiences, whether in Europe or America.

Sultan told Al-Emarat Al-Youm that: “The levels presented by Mohammed Abdul Latif in the basket season, which was unveiled at the end of last month, in terms of both offensive and defensive roles as a supportive player for his German international teammate and professional team Michael John Zacker, reflects the great effort he exerted. The player is under the supervision of a special training apparatus for physical preparation, which led him to recover from the injury he suffered last season, and to return to his natural position as the most prominent citizen players in the country.

He added: “The Collective Games Department, headed by Major General Muhammad Ahmad Al-Marri, takes it upon itself to provide all means of support for its players, especially that the diligent and daily follow-up by Major General Al-Marri of Muhammad Abdullatif’s case had a great impact in encouraging him to regain fitness, under the supervision of a special physical preparation apparatus And led him quickly in the season 2020-2021, to provide the best performance in his career, so that the Games Administration continues its commitment to the ambition of transferring the talent of Mohammed Abdul Latif from the local to the continental and global levels, as an Emirati basket star project capable of professionalism outside the country.

He explained: “The great transformation that has occurred in the player's performance, and with the encouragement of his colleagues, especially the children of his generation, who have crowned him since 2013 with more than 26 local and foreign championship titles. And he won the championship titles, by supporting this group of talents, and providing them with living periods in major schools for the basket, whether in European or American clubs, to start with Muhammad Abdullatif during the summer period, and of course dependent on determining the destination, according to the procedures and travel restrictions imposed globally. Due to the (Corona) pandemic ». And he added, "Since its inception, the club's basket team has achieved 44 local and foreign championships, including the trilogy of the Gulf champions between 2015 and 2017, in addition to the bronze of Asian clubs, and the attainment of these achievements reflects the support given by the club's management to all talents and games alike."

He continued: “The support was not limited to concluding contracts at high levels, whether from technical teams or foreign professionals. Rather, the Group Games Department went to support the citizen component, which resulted in the possession of a basket team that includes the elite elements of the national team, besides that the current coach of the team is happy. Atiq, who gave confidence after two seasons of working with Italian coach Giorgio Valli.

He concluded: “Great ambitions to raise the club's team games to reach international standards, and we are working around the clock to overcome all obstacles that stand in the way of achieving these ambitions, including the diligent follow-up of players in the smallest details of their daily lives, whether on the personal, professional or career level, or on the The level of sitting with the players and discussing with them how to put in place mechanisms that ensure the preservation of a healthy environment that guarantees them continuity in reaping achievements, in steps that have always been the secret of the success of (Shabab Al-Ahly) School in its local superiority, especially in basketball.

Abdullatif: Supporting the club management is the secret of excellence

Mohammed Abdul Latif, the player in the national team and the basketball team in the Shabab Al-Ahly club, said: “The close follow-up of the club’s management, in general, and Major General Al-Marri in particular, contributed to giving me all means of support in overcoming the hurdle of injury that befell me last season, and increasing the quotas. Training under the supervision of the club's physical preparation apparatus, which led me to provide the best performance for me in my career during the current season.

He explained: “The club's management provided me with the ability to train independently and twice a week accompanied by a specialized device within the physical preparation teams. It helped me mainly in giving me the ability to raise my fitness remarkably, and the ability to distribute physical effort throughout all stages of matches, and qualified me to raise performance rates and achieve "Unprecedented ratios in terms of scoring rates or successful promotion to catch the ball."

He concluded: "I look forward to investing the opportunity available to me, to go into periods of external living, in the interest of developing my skills, and to qualify me later to move on the level of ambitions and turn into a professional player capable of playing in the strongest leagues, whether in the region or in Europe and Asia."

Information about Mohammed Abdul Latif

Age: 28 years old.

Height: 190 cm

Position in the team: 4 (a pivot).

■ Total titles with Shabab Al-Ahly: 25 titles.

Local championship titles: 22 titles (8 League - 5 Vice President - 5 Federation Cup - 4 President's Cup).

Gulf championship titles: 3 years titles (2015, 2016 and 2017).

Asian Club Bronze: 2017.

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