He warned of similar consequences to what happened to the Saudi stadium judges

Bujasim: "Foreign rule" will negatively affect the presence of the "Emirati whistle" internationally

Former World Cup referee Ali Boujesim.

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The former World Cup referee in football, Ali Bujasim, said that the decision to use a foreign referee to manage local matches, "will negatively affect the presence and participation of the Emirati whistle in international forums in the future."

Bujusim stressed that the decision has many negatives, noting that he doubts that the UAE will have a presence in the big competitions, and said that "the evidence for this is what happened in Saudi Arabia, which did not have a referee to represent it in the recent years, after the help of foreign referees." Pointing out that he does not see any positive from the issuance of such a decision. Bujassim’s statements to “Emirates Today” come as a reaction to the Football Association’s decision, which was taken the day before yesterday, to adopt a recommendation from the referees committee to use foreign referees to participate in the management of the matches of the President’s Cup and the ADNOC Professional League for the current sports season 2021-2022, as of from next October. The Referees Committee was assigned to set the mechanism, systems, and rules that will be implemented to attract foreign referees, provided that they are submitted to the Board of Directors for review, approval and action.

"History is as it was recorded that the one who stopped the use of foreign referees was the federation that he headed (such and such)," as he put it, without referring to the concerned federation, said Bujasim, who previously held the position of head of the referees committee in the Football Association. Now history records that the one who brought the foreign rule is the union “such and such”, and then we review ourselves after several years, to see the union that took a decision to ban the foreign rule, what did it gain for the Emirates, and the first of which is that the Emirati whistle has not stopped participating in the World Cup since 1990, Until today, including once during the national team's participation in the World Cup, and all the remaining times through the referees. He continued, "Will they bear the responsibility that the UAE will not have a presence in the World Cup in the coming years as a result of the use of foreign rule?"

Bujussim explained: “The federation or the party that issues this decision bears its national responsibility in the future, in that it was the reason that the citizen ruling that used to represent us every year ceased to exist there, because the Asian Federation, as well as the International Federation, will consider that the judges of our stadiums are not They have the ability to manage strong matches, how will they be relied upon in international tournaments among the elite teams, and this is in my estimation the metric that must be taken into account.

Bujesim continued: "The negative of the decision is that our international presence and the representation of the state in international forums as referees will be affected very greatly, so that I doubt that we will have a presence in major competitions, and evidence of this is what happened to the judges of Saudi stadiums."

It is noteworthy that the World Cup referee Ali Bujasim is one of the most prominent football referees in the Emirates, as he led important matches in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, and in the 1998 World Cup in France, as well as in the World Cup that was jointly organized between South Korea and Japan in 2002.

The federation or the authority that issues this decision bears its national responsibility in the future.

“The Asian” and “FIFA” will consider that the judges of our stadiums do not have the ability to manage strong matches.

The Football Association adopted a recommendation from the referees committee to use the foreign whistle in the current season.

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