A strongly worded statement from the Sharjah Club regarding the "discipline" penalty against Shaheen Abdul Rahman

Sharjah Sports Club issued a strongly worded statement regarding the penalty imposed by the Football Association's Disciplinary Committee against team player Shaheen Abdul Rahman, after he was suspended for four matches and fined 200,000 dirhams for leaving the national team camp before his last match against Iraq in the World Cup qualifiers.

The club confirmed that it "condemns the imposition of violations and penalties based on assumptions and actions that did not occur while they are in the circle of possibilities."

The statement said, "The player assured the committee that he never refused to sit back and did not address this issue at all, which confirms his participation with the UAE national team from the bench in the team's last three official matches in the same qualifiers in addition to the previous Arab Cup competitions."

The club said in its statement, "It is the belief of the Sharjah Sports Club in the importance of the stage that our national team has gone through and its competitive position in the Asian supplement that qualifies for the upcoming World Cup finals. The judicial authorities of the Emirates Football Association, according to the applicable procedures, and the club and the player have adhered to them during the last period.

He added, "With regard to the first violation, which is the claim that he refused to sit on the bench and asked the coach to leave the camp, the player explained to the committee during the session that the coach met the players and asked them to communicate directly with him if any player had comments or inquiries, and at the end of the exercise and in sympathy with the above, Shaheen Abdul Rahman spoke With the team’s interpreter who works with the technical staff and asked him to inform the coach of Shaheen’s desire to participate primarily in the next match against the Iraqi team, after it became clear to him during the training that he was not in the main group preparing for the match.

And he continued, "Therefore, the coach met the player and explained to him his point of view regarding the options for the next match, and in turn, Shaheen respected the coach's point of view, but he was surprised by the decision to exclude him from the camp with his recommendation from the coach, and upon his arrival at the hotel, the team manager handed him his passport in implementation of the coach's decision without inquiry." About what happened between the player Shaheen Abdel Rahman and the coach of our national team.

And the club continued in its statement, “The report of the National Teams Committee stated that the exclusion from the national team is the coach’s decision, and because the coach assumed, according to what was stated in the report referred to the National Teams Committee (that the player’s stay in the camp may create problems between the players).”

The club’s statement continued: “With regard to the violation of the player Shaheen Abdul Rahman leaving the camp twice without permission, which the Disciplinary Committee based its decision on this violation, the player confirmed that leaving the camp was for private reasons, and it was done with the permission and prior approval of the national team manager, even if the allegations contained in the submitted report were true. Why was the player not met to advise, direct or punish him, after the report of the national team manager claimed that there were two violations on separate dates, and why was the alleged error not addressed at the time of the violation and not wait for the accumulation of violations, if true?

The club indicated that:Based on this violation (leaving without permission), the Disciplinary Committee issued its decision to suspend the player Shaheen Abdel Rahman for four official matches with his club and fine him two hundred thousand dirhams, for leaving the team camp without prior permission, pointing out that despite the player’s denial and the denial of the team manager ( The author of the report) for this violation in his statements through the media, and the strange thing is that the committee did not respond in the reasons for its decision to these statements and evidence, which confirmed beyond any doubt about the validity of what was stated in the player’s statement as applied in the formulation of disciplinary decisions by responding to each payment or Evidence provided by the player or his lawyer, and the strangest thing is that the committee builds its decision and punishes the player with the maximum penalty due to the claim that the player has a precedent of exclusion from the camp, bearing in mind that this violation was not mentioned in the report of the National Teams Committee and was not presented to the Disciplinary Committee previously, was neither investigated nor The player is confronted with it, and she bases her judgment on her personal knowledge of this violation and thisWhich contravenes the law that states that a judge may not rule on any incident based on his personal knowledge.

The statement added, "By the sequence of what was mentioned above, it became clear to us that the decisions taken by the committee may affect the club's progress in the upcoming benefits, especially as it is running the President's Cup final, whose date has not been announced yet, as we found out while sitting with the player that the incident was stemming from the incident. From his keenness to participate and provide the best, contrary to what was circulated that he was superior to the player and imposed himself fundamentally, and that leaving the camp was with the permission of the team manager, and this was what was proven before the committee, and his exit was like other team players who went out on the same day and time, but it was referred Only the player Shaheen Abdel Rahman, without the other players.

The club affirmed, "In conclusion, the Sharjah Sports Club was and will remain one of the most important tributaries of the national teams in all sports, and it is a consistent approach that was, is, and will continue to raise the name of the Emirates in international and continental forums, and wearing the team's logo is a lofty goal for all players and will not deviate from this approach one day, In his view, the local championships will remain honorable competitions aimed at creating a team worthy of the country.

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