They confirmed that the judges of the local stadiums were able to lead the 3 matches

Experts: The foreign referee did not make an addition to the league. The players helped them

• Turkish referee Cüneyt Şakir moderated the match between Al-Ahly youth and Al-Jazeera.

  Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

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Former football experts and referees confirmed that the three foreign stadium judges who were hired to manage matches in the ADNOC Professional Football League did not provide the desired arbitration addition, noting that the local international referees could manage the three matches as required, stressing that the players helped the foreign referees in meeting management.

The Turkish foreign referees Cünit Şakir, the German Tobias Steller and the Italian Daniele Doveri had managed the matches of Al-Ahly youth with Al-Jazira, Sharjah with Al-Wahda and Al-Ain with Al-Jazira in the professional league, following the decision of the Football Association last September to use foreign referees in the matches of the UAE League and the President’s Cup. The cost of a foreign referee for one match is 170,000 dirhams.

The former international referee, Salah Amin, told "Emirates Today": "The three foreign referees did not provide the desired arbitration addition, and for the Al-Ain and Al-Jazira match, which was managed by the Italian referee, the club that attracted this foreign crew could not have cost itself to pay 170 thousand dirhams in exchange for attracting The foreign refereeing staff who led the match.

He added, "I do not support the presence of foreign referees participating in the management of matches in the UAE league, because if local referees work diligently in managing sensitive matches in the league, they can manage them appropriately."

Salah Amin explained that "the match between Al-Ahly youth and Al-Jazira, which was managed by the Turkish referee, was very ordinary, and the technical level of the UAE League is not the high level so that there is a kind of competition and sensitivity .. I do not know what will happen in the coming days, but from my point of view, our rulers could have The internationals will manage the three matches.

He added, "If the decision to attract foreign referees came to relieve pressure on local referees in some sensitive matches, what happens is the opposite, as the referee does not hone his skills except when managing sensitive matches," stressing that "in the event that regular matches in the league are assigned to the referees." The local government has attracted foreign referees for sensitive matches, so there will be no upgrading to the level of the local government, as in the case of the player who, if he does not enter into strong matches with strong and competitive teams, will not develop his level.”

Salah Amin continued: “In the event that the decision to bring in foreign referees was also in order to develop the level of national referees through friction with them, foreign referees run very few matches in our league, so during the three matches, in my estimation, there was no addition, And I do not think that there will be an addition until the end of the season in the process of attracting and bringing in foreign referees.”

For his part, the former football referee, Ibrahim Al-Muhairi, confirmed that “the three matches in the league led by foreign referees, in which the level was normal and there were no arbitral cases, besides that these referees were not tested in these matches with arbitrary cases,” noting that “ The local referees could have managed it because they played games that were more difficult than these matches.”

Ibrahim Al-Muhairi pointed out that the long experiences of these foreign referees in European stadiums helped them, noting that there were some cases in which there were positive decisions by these referees.

He continued, "As for the Italian referee Doveri, who led the match between Al Ain and Al Jazira in the tenth round, I generally did not like his performance. There is a penalty kick that he did not calculate next to the administrative decisions in the size of this referee, and there are some decisions that he could have waived." Ibrahim Al Muhairi said that what distinguishes the three foreign referees is their long experience in managing matches, considering that the level of matches in the UAE league is not the same as in the European leagues that these three referees participate in. In turn, a member of the former referees committee in the Football Association, former international referee, Muhammad Al-Junaibi, said that the benefit of local international referees from attracting foreign court judges is limited, unlike first-class referees, indicating that he hopes the referees committee or the Football Association continue to attract foreign referees. from first grade.

He added that "national referees needed such a challenge through the presence of foreign referees running matches in the UAE league, in order to prove that their level of arbitration is high," noting that "the World Cup international referee Muhammad Hassan and his assistant staff had recently managed the final of the AFC Champions League between clubs between Al Hilal Saudi and South Korean par excellence, and this is not strange to Emirati arbitration, but at the local level, they need a process of competition with foreign referees in order to maintain their level of arbitration.”

He continued, "I do not consider the experience of attracting foreign stadium judges a failure. On the contrary, the foreign referees performed at a good level, and there were no influential refereeing errors in the three matches they administered."

And whether the three foreign referees had provided an addition to the local and league arbitration, Al-Junaibi explained: “The players on the field helped the foreign referee in managing the match, and at the same time they did not help the local referee in managing the matches.”

• 170,000 dirhams, the cost of the foreign arbitration staff per match.

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