Thursday, September 7, 2023 – 3:14 PM
DUBAI, 7th September / WAM / The summer registration period for the current football season 2023-2024 in Emirati football witnessed a group of internal transfers for a number of foreign players who appeared in different club shirts for their previous clubs that they wore last season.
The registration door was officially launched on the third of last July, and it will continue until the 21st of September.
At the head of these players was Tunisian Firas Belarabi, who joined Sharjah in the new season with a three-season contract from Ajman.
Balarabi played 82 league matches during 3 seasons, starting with his first season in the UAE with Fujairah, then the next two seasons with Ajman, in which he scored 34 goals, including 12 goals last season, and he also made 11 goals in the same season.
In the same list, two former players from Shabab Al-Ahly club appear, the two Iranians, Mahdi Qaidi, who moved on loan to Ittihad Kalba Club, and his compatriot Ahmed Nour Allah, who moved to Al-Wehda in a free transfer.
Al Wasl also succeeded in signing Argentine Nicholas Jimenez from Baniyas Club, in a free transfer deal, after 3 seasons he spent in the ranks of his former club, in which he was one of his most prominent players.
Khorfakkan settled the deal to join Brazilian Lawrence Rodriguez, former striker and top scorer of Al-Bataeh, in a free transfer for two seasons, after a distinguished season for the player with his former club, during which he scored 13 goals in the ADNOC Professional League.
The Emirati football stadiums still include a number of foreign players who wore more than one shirt during their extended football career, among them the Brazilian Caio Lucas, who is the oldest foreigner in the “Dorina”, as he launched his career with Al Ain in the 2016-2017 season, before defending the colors of the shirt. Sharjah, starting in the 2019-2020 season, on loan, from Benfica, Portugal, and then officially moving to Sharjah in January 2021, with a three-year contract until 2024.
The same applies to the Syrian Omar Khirbin, the current Al-Wehda player, who launched his local career with Al-Dhafra in the 2015-2016 season for two seasons, after which he left for the Saudi League, before returning again in the middle of the 2020-2021 season to play with Al-Wehda, and later moving to Shabab Al-Ahly, for example. loan, before returning to the unit again.
Ahmed Al Botli / Walid Farouk
2023-09-07 11:15:24
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