Shabab Al-Ahly is a historic champion of the President's Cup
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The joy of Shabab Al-Ahly players during the cup coronation.
Photography: Eric Arazas
Rashid bin Humaid hands over the trophy to Al-Ahly Youth captain Majid Nasser.
Photography: Eric Arazas
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Shabab Al-Ahly won the title of the 44th edition of the President's Cup competition, after defeating Al-Nasr with two goals to one goal, yesterday, at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, to confirm that «Dubai Knights» is the historical champion of the Cup, after raising its tally to 10 titles, and to consolidate its position in The top of the clubs most crowned with the title, ahead of Sharjah, and has eight titles.
After the end of the match, Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, President of the Football Association, crowned the Shabab Al-Ahly team with the cup.
Youth Al-Ahly continued their brilliance this season, after achieving their third title under coach Mahdi Ali, winning the titles of the Arabian Super Gulf Cup, the Arabian Gulf Cup, and the President's Cup, while Al-Jazeera won the Arabian Gulf League title.
The match witnessed great excitement, after "video technology" decided the result of the meeting, with Shabab Al-Ahly obtaining two penalty kicks, scored by the Argentine Cartabia, while the Algerian Mahdi Obeid scored the victory goal, after also using the video technology.
Al-Ahly youth dominated the midfield at the beginning of the match, and Youssef Jaber almost rocked the "Blue" nets after 40 seconds, after receiving a beautiful pass from Uzbek Jalaluddin Masharibov, while victory responded with a dangerous opportunity that is not lost by Brazilian Gabriel Valentini (6).
Al-Nasr coach, Argentine Ramon Diaz, relied on imposing strong oversight on the most prominent players of Al-Ahly youth, Argentine Federico Cartabia and Brazilian Carlos Eduardo and Macharibov, while Diaa Sabaa led the counterattacks, along with Algerian Mehdi Obeid, with Sebastian Tegali in the attack.
Despite the advantage of Shabab Al-Ahly to acquire the ball, he did not threaten goalkeeper Ahmed Chambé, while Al-Nasr almost scored the first goal on two occasions, the first when Diaa hit a strong ball from outside the penalty area, Majid Nasser (25) saved it, and the second with a kick A corner, played by Diaa Sabaa, and Tigali met her with a strong head on the crossbar (28).
In the 42nd minute, the referee, Ammar Al-Junaibi, awarded a penalty kick for Shabab Al-Ahly, after he used video technology, citing Jacob Al-Balushi's assault on Carlos Eduardo inside the penalty area, and Federico Cartabia skillfully hit the goal, scoring the first goal of "Dubai Knights" in the 44th minute, while Al-Nassr coach Ramon Diaz received a red card, after objecting to the referee's decision.
In the second half, Al-Nassr made the first substitution with the Brazilian Kaiki da Silva, instead of Habib Al-Fardan.
Al-Nasr made the second switch by descending Abdullah Abbas instead of the Brazilian Valentini, while Al-Ahly's youth joined Abdullah Al-Naqbi instead of Majed Hassan.
In the 78th minute, Algerian Mahdi Obeid scored the equalizer after Mahmoud Khamis played a corner kick, which Obeid followed inside the penalty area with a shot inside the goal, while the final minutes of the match witnessed a great excitement, after the referee awarded a penalty kick to Shabab Al-Ahly, after Eduardo was blocked by Mohamed Ayed, and hit Cartabia in the same way that he scored the first goal, adding the second goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time, to end the match with the victory of Shabab Al-Ahly.
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