The Sharjah Football Club member, Jamal Boundi, revealed that the team lost the opportunity to qualify for the final match of the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup from the first leg against Al -Ahly youth, indicating that the “King” was affected by the loss of the efforts of four of its stars because they were linked to the national team, which today is playing an important match against North Korea in the World Cup qualifiers 2026.
He told «Emirates Today»: “Sharjah was affected by the absence of international players, while Al -Ahly’s youth did not miss only the Iranian striker Sardar Azmoun, at a time when he has a large group of players that helped him certainly ascending.”
He explained: «I did not want to talk about that topic in the first leg because there are players and alternatives who also presented a big match, but you are talking about four players who are the stars of the national team, meaning that Sharjah has almost half of its strength and this is what affected it, unlike the Al -Ahly youth team, which missed one player from its main list, Sardar Azmoun, and Al -Ahly youth dealt with the situation legally and took advantage of the players who are present to him.
He added: “We congratulate the Al -Ahly youth team to rise, the two teams presented everything they have in four consecutive and locally consecutive matches, and there is no big difference between them, as Al -Ahly and Sharjah youth stand at the top of the UAE football this season, and the confrontations between them in Ramadan are equivalent to each team.”
He continued: «The two teams met in five historical confrontations this season, and there may be a sixth match if they succeed in going up to the final of the Presidential Cup, and I believe that all the players presented what they have.
The Sharjah Board of Directors confirmed that “the Sharjah team faced bad success in the first leg by receiving goals of fixed strikes, and in the return match also Al -Ahly’s youth tied two penalty kicks.”
Regarding the upcoming Al -Ahly youth team in the league championship, he said: “A detailed confrontation will be, every team knows what it wants, either to win Sharjah and confirm its return to compete for the title and the championship, or hand over the flag to the Al -Ahly youth team, and all the players know very well what they have of the task, and they are able to win, and we hope that the team will succeed after two games in which the success was absent and caused them to leave the Abu Dhabi Bank Cup Winning and completing the league journey with Al -Ahly youth.
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