AMMAN-

After the curtain came down on the first leg of the Jordanian professional football league, Jordanian clubs began to rearrange their papers, especially the file of professional players, which represents an additional financial burden on clubs that suffer from a lack of financial resources and high indebtedness, as professionals receive large financial contracts and do not translate them into The playing field is showing meager technical levels.

The average contracts for local players per season range between 10 and 30 thousand dinars (between 14 and 42 thousand dollars), while contracts for foreign players range between 50 and 120 thousand dinars (70 and 170 thousand dollars).

Since 3 seasons, the Jordanian football season begins in February and ends in December.

External contracts expose most clubs to the penalty of banning the registration of new players, which makes them face an additional dilemma, which is securing large sums of money to pay complaints to lift the penalties.

For example, Al-Wehdat team signed this season with attackers;

Argentinian Matias Castro and Senegalese Anas Mohamed with the start of the football season, however, Castro and Mohamed did not prove their technical abilities, so they sat on the bench, and therefore their contracts were terminated, and both cost the club's treasury huge sums of money, which caused the ridicule of its fans on social networking sites.

Al Wehdat Club Professional đŸ˜±đŸ˜± pic.twitter.com/4HkYAltuxD

— ✹ Aalsh ✹ (@_v7zx) March 10, 2022

The same applies to its traditional rival, Al-Faisaly, who is struggling to pay previous commitments to players and coaches who filed complaints with FIFA to obtain their financial dues, as its professionals did not provide what was expected of them, and the club terminated the contracts of Congolese Mobaku, Ugandan Abdullah Saudi and Jacob from Ivory Coast, all of whom cost the treasury The club saddled with a lot of money.

The list of professional players with Jordanian clubs who did not show great technical levels, and therefore were sitting on the bench, or their contracts were terminated;

As is the case with the Ramtha clubs, the champion of last season, who is fighting for relegation this season, and “Al-Hussein Irbid”, who paid huge sums of money to compete for the title;

But he finished the stage of going in third place, as well as Maan, Sahab, Al-Sareeh, Shabab Aqaba, Shabab Al-Urdun, Mughir Al-Sarhan and Al-Salt, and the only exception may be Al-Jazira team, which was unable to register foreign players because it was denied contracts by FIFA.

Coaches are responsible for contracts

The director of sports activity in Al-Wehdat Club, Ziad Shelbaya, holds the teams’ technical staff responsible for the bad choices of professionals, as the club’s management does not contract with any player, whether local or foreign, except after the approval or recommendation of the coach who bears the technical responsibility.

Shelbaya told Al Jazeera Net that the players come through agents who are interested in making money regardless of the player's quality, indicating that the player is subject to a period of trial before the coach issues his decision, noting that players with a high technical level refuse to sign more than one or two seasons with Jordanian clubs;

They see it as a transit station.

Ziad Shelbaya: Players come through agents who are interested in making money, regardless of the quality of the player (Al-Wehdat Club official website)

He adds that this phenomenon exists among prominent local players who refuse to sign for more than one season, waiting for foreign offers, and this makes Jordanian clubs lose financially and do not benefit;

The benefits of external professionalism for local or foreign players will be earned by the player and his agent only.

Shelbaya explained that the Jordanian clubs are the losers in all cases. Without entering a penny into the club's treasury.

The choice depends on the videos

For his part, sports analyst Yahya Qutaishat called on Jordanian clubs to learn from the mistakes of the past, especially as they have been suffering for years from the lack of success of a foreign professional, and in many times the local player is much better than him.

Qteishat told Al Jazeera Net that the apparent weakness of the level of professionals is due to several reasons, foremost of which is the poor financial capabilities that force clubs to search for professionals at low prices, ignoring great talent, in addition to the lack of technical committees specialized in nominating and selecting the best professional players in cooperation with technical bodies.

Yahya Qteishat: The apparent weakness of the level of professionals is due to several reasons, foremost of which is the lack of financial capabilities (communication sites)

Qtaishat revealed that the method of contracting with professionals in the Jordanian League is limited and strange, as it relies on the videos that agents bring to the club, and with the help of montage, the player appears creative in some composite footage that later appears to do not reflect his true level on the field.

Rely on juniors

And the players’ agent Khaled Sultan told Al-Jazeera Net that most players who play in the Jordanian league are amateurs, and some of them obtain a player card from their local federation with money, and may not have participated with any team before professionalism in Jordan, and despite that they cost the clubs huge sums of money from which there is no return. .

Sultan added that the goal of the next professional in the Jordanian league is to market himself in the Gulf leagues, and he is not interested in technical addition as much as he is interested in money, and this is evidenced by the refusal of distinguished players to sign contracts for more than one season only.

Sultan advised Jordanian clubs to rely on the players in the youth teams, which are full of talents that may have greater technical capabilities than some professionals, but they lack the opportunity to prove themselves.

He also advised them to learn from Qatar's second division teams or Saudi first division teams, which hire distinguished professional players on appropriate financial contracts.

Khaled Sultan: The goal of the next professional in the Jordanian League is to market himself in the Gulf leagues (communication sites)