Athletes: He does not get enough opportunity..and the teams are most affected

18% of the goals of the citizen player in the "amateur" league

• From a previous meeting of the Emirates team with “City” in the first division.

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Statistics revealed to "Emirates Today" a significant decline in the percentage of goals scored by the citizen player in the first division league for "amateur" clubs, after 18 rounds have passed in the current season.

Of the total 452 goals scored in the matches, the national players scored only 83 goals, or about 18%.

The large dependence of amateur clubs on foreign and resident players, especially at the offensive line level, contributed to this, as the regulations and laws allow the participation of six players between residents, foreigners and those born in the country during each match.

The top scorer in the first-division league is the Brazilian Emirates Club player Diego Farias with 17 goals, followed by the Serbian player Al-Urouba Estobrovig with 13 goals, then the Omani Arab player Fares Al-Jabri with 11 goals, which is the same balance for Al-Jazira Al-Hamra player Igor Alves and Carlos Filho from Al-Taawon, and the Emirates player Letheri. Nevis.

At the level of national players, Masfout Ibrahim Al-Mismari and Rashid Issa from Hatta top the list, each with six goals, followed by City player Hamad Issa Al-Dosari and Abdullah Al-Shahiari from Masafi with four goals for each player.

Athletes told Emirates Today that the citizen player does not get enough opportunity to highlight his talents in the amateur league, and stressed that the national teams are the first to be affected by this matter, led by the first national team.

Training vision

Dibba Al-Fujairah reserve coach, Mohammed Al-Khadim, said: "The problem of relying on foreigners more than citizens exists, but the most prominent problem is that some club coaches rely on defensive play more than offensively, and therefore the percentage of scoring goals is low for foreigners and citizens compared to the number of matches."

And he continued: «It is necessary for the citizen player to support himself through seriousness in training and official matches and high concentration in order to take his opportunity and stick to it, in addition to the fact that the citizen player suffers from the absence of incentives or his lack of conviction in them, unlike the foreign player who invests any available opportunity».

For his part, the former player of Fujairah, Yaqoub bin Youssef, said: “The reasons are due to the dependence of most clubs on the foreigner and the resident, and this caused a large gap that led to a decline in the level of the citizen player, as he remained confined to the bench, and the difference in the goals of foreigners and citizens is a warning bell, which is something that pushes He is greatly valued by the national teams.”

And he continued: «The clubs are required to focus on the citizen player and reduce dependence on the foreigner and the resident, because the talents are present in the clubs, but they are deprived of the opportunity to prove this, and the coaches must support the citizen player, as a large number of them shone in the first degree and moved to play in the professionals, and became main pillars in the field. The elected.

Disappointment

Emirates club reserve coach, Mohamed Al-Taimomy, said: “We are disappointed in the prominent absence of the national scorer in the current season of the Premier League, and this can be described as a problem that needs urgent solutions by the Football and Clubs Association.”

He added: «The Football Association needs to amend the regulations of non-citizen players who are allowed to participate in the match and reduce that in favor of the citizen player, and for the clubs to urge coaches to develop the abilities of national scorers tactically and push them in matches, while the player himself needs to develop his level, He concentrates during attacks in order to score goals.

He continued, "In the past, the difference in the number of goals between the foreigner and the citizen did not exceed two or three goals, while now the number has become very large."

Among the scoring numbers for the Amateur League after 18 rounds:

■ The total number of goals is 452 goals, of which 83 are for national players.

■ The UAE striker, Brazilian Diego Farias, tops the list of scorers with 17 goals.

■ The top scorers among citizens are Masfout Ibrahim Al-Mismari and Rashid Issa from Hatta, each with six goals.

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