After the curtain fell on the first chapter of the current World Cup edition, which witnessed a modest performance by our national team that ended with its early departure without achieving any victory or performance that justifies this hasty exit, the sad sports scene has been dominated by questions about whether the preparation programs for this global event were below the expected level, and who bears responsibility for this shortfall among the administrative and technical sides and the players' negligence on the pitch. Perhaps the most important and profound question lies in the reason for our constant inability to learn lessons from our previous participations in continental and international events, which often end with results that do not match our past historical achievements. International sports competitions.

It is truly painful that Saudi football history has a record full of achievements at the continental and Olympic levels and honorable global presence, yet we end up spending an entire decade without winning any title, or even registering an honorable presence in Asia or globally. This decline is perplexing, especially as it coincides with an unprecedented material and moral boom in Saudi sports, with generous and direct support from His Highness, the godfather of the blessed vision, revealing a deep gap that cannot be ignored.

Today's crisis is not one of capabilities but rather a crisis of management, planning, and strategic implementation, as the development and strength of the local league have not been reflected in the identity of the national team and its competitiveness in international forums!

The real problem lies in the absence of a cumulative strategy, where everything built before is demolished with each failure and we start from scratch instead of studying mistakes and building on gains. Our football system remains captive to temporary solutions and emergency camps, which is the main reason for the replication of successive failure scenarios at the senior, Olympic, and youth team levels! This scene today requires public disclosure and courageous transparency to sort out responsibilities, starting from the administrative system that is called upon to reconsider governance mechanisms and hold the negligent accountable, passing through the technical staff that lacked tactical courage and flexibility, to the players, some of whom lacked passion and fighting spirit to represent the national emblem.

The bitter exit from this World Cup edition must not pass as a fleeting event or end with the usual expressions of regret, but rather should be a major turning point to correct the random path and reorganize the cards from the roots. Saudi sports in the era of the blessed vision do not accept half measures and are not satisfied with anything less than leadership. The Saudi fans who supported and backed deserve a football system that reflects the true value of the nation on the global sports map.

Heavyweight clashes

In their first real test in the current World Cup, can the two Arab teams, Egypt and Morocco, have the ability to topple the great teams of France and Argentina? Especially since the previous edition of the 2022 World Cup, the Saudi team beat Argentina and the Tunisian team beat France, which I hope will break the psychological barrier and fear for the Pharaohs and the Atlas Lions, and give them confidence and the ability to win.

I say: I hope that yesterday's and tomorrow's matches will be a summit of excitement, rivalry, and football pleasure, and through them, Egypt and Morocco will continue the success of Arab teams as the Saudi Green and the Tunisian Red did.

The End

They said: Let us leave yesterday's story as a sentence of past news, and not let it delete the subject of today, because the conjunction of tomorrow will be affected and follow what came before it and take its rule.