About eight years ago, specifically in 2017, the national coach, Mahdi Ali, left the training of the first national team in football, leaving a legacy of the achievements achieved by the “white”, on top of which is winning the Gulf Cup title with a generation of players who have become Gulf, Arably and Asian, but since that time the team has been punished for training seven coaches until this moment that witnessed the dismissal of Portuguese Porto, the first morning of yesterday None of them succeeds in reaching the national team to the desired level or walking a step to the imam from the place that Mahdi Ali reached. On the contrary, the team witnessed a decline in the level of all his participation, which put question marks on that.
Athletes considered that seven coaches have been punished within eight years, that is, since the departure of the national coach Mahdi Ali, with no technical imprint in the national team and although they are great names in the field of training putting question marks about determining the problem, especially since the coach Pinto, who was sacked two days ago, due to the decline in the team’s chances of qualifying directly to the World Cup 2026, received great support from the Football Association, and has all the capabilities of professional elements Ready to play was naturalized and opened all the doors in front of him, but he remained in a vicious circle of technical observations on his performance in the matches, and he approached the conclusion of the qualifiers while he was still in the experimentation stage of the players.
The athletes told «Emirates Today» that the problem in the national team lies in addition to the large number of changes in coaches and instability at the level of the technical staff of the team, in the presence of a defect in the system, in addition to the team’s affected by the process of replacement, replacement and the major changes that occurred in his ranks after the departure of Mahdi Ali, by the departure of a full generation of players and the replacement of a new generation that needed patience with him, in addition to not choosing the Football Association for a suitable coach. The capabilities of the players and the creation of football and ambition for the current generation as a group, in addition to the fact that the technical committee in the Football Association is not activated as required.
The athletes added that «the problem is not in the coaches who successively training the team alone, but there are several factors in the work system, because although it has been punished for the team during the past years that followed the departure of the former coach of the national team, Mahdi Ali, more than two generations of players, the team did not achieve throughout these years any significant achievement, whether at the Gulf Cup, Asian Cup or the qualifiers for the World Cup, and the last achievement achieved by the team. Khaleeji 21 in 2013 during the era of coach Mahdi Ali, then the team’s march began to decline, so the fan needs to be fully reviewed. ”
Al -Abyad was punished during the eight years of seven coaches, including Dutchman Marvik, who took over the team in two periods, as after the departure of Mahdi Ali, the Football Association contracted with Argentine Edgar Bawza, who lasted for a very short period and behind him, Italian Alberto Zakironi, before he was sacked to take over the Dutch mission, Marvik, who left his country and his Serbian successor, Evan Yuvanovic, who did not present any A match until the time of his dismissal, and the Colombian Pinto, who also did not last for a long time, was followed by Dutchman Marvik, but he left to lead the Argentine team Arabarina before he was sacked and succeeded by Portuguese Paulo Pinto, who was recently dismissed.
Coaches without completion
The sports administrator and the technical analyst, Juma Al -Abdouli, said that despite the succession of this large number of coaches for training the team within eight years, they unfortunately did not leave any imprint and did not achieve any significant achievement. The World Cup qualifiers.
Al -Abdouli continued: “The problem is not in the coaches alone, but in the system that needs to be reviewed, represented in the administration and the coaches who are contracted to train the team, as well as in the players.”
He added: «One of the most important reasons for the team’s decline in the last period as well is the disappearance of distinguished stars, such as Omar Abdel Rahman, Ali Mabkhout and Ismail Al Hammadi, Ahmed Khalil, Amer Abdel Rahman and Mohamed Fawzi, along with the decline in the interest of some players in joining the team and the lack of the players of the team’s passion and ambition.
Al -Abdouli continued: “It is true that the coaches who successively training the team in the past periods have a role in the process of retreating the team, but there are also basic matters that have a role in this decline, including the quality of the players who joined the team, and the lack of some players to passion, desire and ambition, as well as the failure of the Football Association to choose the appropriate coach for this group of the team players.”
The coach lacking the leader and the tan
The former international player, Faisal Khalil, said, “After the departure of Mahdi Ali, the team faced some difficulties, most notably the departure of a whole generation of players to replace a new generation, and the team also has also made many changes with the joining of new players and this is normal, and although the team includes distinct elements, he missed the captain and the seasoned coach, who can use the capabilities of these players properly in the interest of the team as a group.”
Faisal Khalil added: “The problems that the team has suffered during the past years and until now are common, among them the changes that occurred in the generations that have successfully on the team, as well as the large number of changes of coaches, and instability, because the team includes in its ranks a distinguished group of players as individuals, and that these players needed patience with them after the departure of the previous generation of the players.”
Faisal Khalil continued: «The decline that occurred in the team in the recent period was expected, given the ongoing changes that the team witnessed by changing a full generation of players, and this current generation in the team has technical capabilities in terms of the quality of the players, especially in the recent period, specifically after 2013, the period in which the team witnessed the existence of a distinguished group of players as individuals, but as I mentioned, they missed the captain and the coach who can employ their capabilities.
Khalil explained: «The team during the Bento era was achieving good results and winning, but without convincing performance, and currently Pinto left the team, but the most important question from the coach who will come after him and has the ability to employ the capabilities of the players of the team, especially since we have a good team, and that the current team players are the best in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, and we have seen in the team during the Bento era of the distinguished players, such as Caio Lucas The color of Pereira and other players. ”
The role of the technical committee
For his part, the international lecturer in football, Omar Al -Hammadi, said in response to a question about the reasons for the successive failure of the team after the reign of Mahdi Ali, and whoever bears its responsibility: “The technical committee in the Emirates Football Association bears part of the responsibility of these failures through the following points: participation in the championships, but without setting a major goal from these posts, and the Football Association has not succeeded in choosing a suitable coach for the first team after Mahdi Ali, and the dependence on the players who currently obtained the players The Emirati finally, with the failure to develop a plan to develop the Sunni stages to prepare players for the future, and not to keep pace with the results of the national teams in the Sunni stages, which are from one failure to another, which indicates the absence of a generation for the future, and the technical committee in the Football Association is not greatly activated, besides that it leaves the team coach to act with what he deems appropriate without sitting with him and discussing his choices and failures.
The current players in the fan are not the best to represent and raise the team’s slogan, but there is the best, and the most ready players must be chosen to represent the team and discuss the coach in his choices, and not to leave the full decision for him.
Omar Al Hammadi added: “The national team needs to develop a strategic plan for the coming stages and implement it on the ground, coinciding with the finding of urgent solutions to save its chances of qualifying for the World Cup.”
Al -Hammadi continued: «The current stage needs a coach committee, consisting of a foreign coach with citizens who are authority to make decisions with the coach, in the event that a foreign coach is chosen.
The results of the team after the departure of Mahdi Ali in 2017
• The loss of the Gulf 23 title in Kuwait, after losing to Oman, on penalties in the final match.
• Exit from the Gulf 24 in Qatar from the group stage.
• Exit from the Gulf 25 in Iraq from the group stage.
• Exit from the Gulf 26 in Kuwait from the group stage without achieving any victory.
• Exit the Asian Cup, which was held in the Emirates in 2019, from the semi -finals.
• Exit the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar from the final round.
• He failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup despite reaching the qualifying supplement for the World Cup, but he lost to Australia to dispel the dream.
• His accounts are currently in direct qualification for the 2026 World Cup, and they need a miracle.
Coaches have successfully trained the national team since 2017
• Edgar (February 2017 to September of the same year).
• Zakironi (October 2017 to February 2019).
• Marwijk (March 2019 to December of the same year).
• Evan Yuvanovich (December 2019 to April 2020).
• Jorge Pinto (June 2020 to November of the same year).
• Marwijk’s reset again (December 2020 to February 2022).
• Arwarina (February 2022 to June 2023).
Paulo Pinto (June 2023 to March 2025).