A few days ago, Yasser Al-Mishal announced his resignation as president of the Football Federation, and the prevailing opinion in the sports community was that he was responsible for the Green's exit from the group stage, and perhaps the primary culprit for the disasters of the seven lean years, as if his resignation was the official announcement of the end of the crisis.

The repeated demand for Yasser Al-Mishal's departure did not begin with this participation; rather, it is the same scene that repeats with every failure, confirming that the issue was not linked to the result of a tournament, but to who runs the system, as if the entire problem is hidden in the president's office.

The truth is that the level of the Green in the World Cup and their exit from the group stage cannot be described as a catastrophe, because reality confirms that this is the best that can be offered by a player who is a starter with the national team but a benchwarmer at his club.

I recall in the early 1990s, Japan sent their youngsters to Brazil to learn football in its homeland; similarly, players from Morocco, Algeria, and many other countries found the old continent to be the environment that produced stars capable of competing with the world.

You cannot build a generation that can rival world teams without early migration to the homeland of football, and we will never produce a world-class player unless we abandon the idea of recruiting foreign players to build a strong league. The Olympic champion and the extraordinary football player are all products of a long-term project, not a product of an administrative decision in the hands of the president.

In the not-too-distant future, another 'Yasser' will come at the start of a new phase of optimism, hoping for someone to restore some of the Green's prestige, as if I am reading the scene... a repeated scenario that turns a blind eye to the reality of football player development and skill engineering. Then the same demands for the president's removal will begin anew, and the 'new Yasser' will turn from a rescue project into the cause of everything that happens—even though the crisis is not in who runs the system, but in the way the player/athlete is produced.

Yasser has left, and another Yasser will come. Names and faces change, but the results remain the same unless we acknowledge that the crisis is not in the president's position, but in the philosophy of producing the professional player. The president signs the decisions, but history is written only by the player.

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- Dr. Theyab bin Awad Al-Hejaili

@TheyabAlhejaili

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