Ahmed Sharahili

Monday, July 13, 2026

* Even as it goes through one of the most delicate and awkward phases, the Football Association has failed to handle it with administrative professionalism reflecting competence in its work. The way the chairman's resignation was announced came through social media, the extraordinary general assembly meeting of the association was held remotely, and members were asked to vote on amending some articles of the association's statute! Was the call for the meeting to vote on changing some articles of the association's statute, or to discuss the national team's failures and its repeated failure in every tournament and competition it enters?! Or the confusion in the work of committees! Or to discuss the failure of the Saudi referee and the inability to develop him for more than twenty years! Despite spending millions of riyals for that.

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* Are the names spreading on social media platforms announcing their candidacy for the presidency of the Football Association real, or just a decoy so that just before the end a name emerges to break through the ranks and take the presidency chair?!

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* Some player agents adopt unprofessional methods in marketing their players by opening the door for bidding. When they receive an offer from a club, they happily inform another club and ask it to raise the value! And so on. This makes some clubs withdraw completely from the deal because they discover they are being deceived! This summer, more than one case has occurred.

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* The German coach contracted by the association was the coach of Salzburg, which was coached by Yaisleh, the coach of Al-Ahli! And the strange thing is that Al-Shabab contracted the assistant coach of the association to coach its football team! How will these two coaches perform during the season?!

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* Al-Ittihad defender Ahmed Sharahili suffered a foot ligament injury while conducting individual training with his private coach! He has suffered from injuries over the past three seasons that prevented him from representing the team for that entire period except for short periods. These injuries will sideline him for no less than (8) weeks.

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* The participation of (48) teams in the World Cup increased the number of matches for the teams, and also allowed medium and below-medium teams to participate, which contributed to breaking many records that had stood for years, such as scoring the most goals in the history of the World Cup. And others. Some of those records were in the name of Pelé, who retired about (40) years ago.

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