A number of Emirati football insiders agreed that Rodolfo Aruabarrena is not the right coach to take on the technical lead of our UAE national team.
Al-Abyad recently suffered two defeats in the first two rounds of the group stage to the “Gulf 25”, and now threatens to go out of the narrow gate of the regional league.
Our Emirati team’s number of losses has reached 7 during the Arwabarina era, compared to 3 wins and a draw.
Former UAE Football Federation member Salim Al Shamsi confirmed: “Aruabarina is not the coach of the stage… and we have to start developing a future national project.”
He explained in the investigation conducted by the Emirati newspaper, ‘Emirates Today’, ‘This matter will require the National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee to meet with the UAE Football Association Board of Directors, to initiate the development of the project through a specific strategic plan to form high-level teams.”
At the end of his speech, Al Shamsi asked to “find a suitable coach, with personality and with enough experience to coach the national teams”.
Issa Al-Dhabhi, the former chairman of the board of Ittihad Kalba Club (Al-Nimour), refused to hold the UAE Football Federation accountable for Arwabarina’s failure.
In this regard, he explained, “the National Commission and Technical Affairs takes care of evaluating the coach, and is responsible for the selections”.
Al Dabbahi commented on Arwabarina’s controversial decision not to invite Ali Mabkhout before he goes to compete in the ‘Gulf 25’.
The former board chairman said: “While I am not a supporter of interference in any manager’s work, there are issues that the manager needs to discuss, and this is also the responsibility of the national teams and technical affairs committee.” “.
For his part, Salem Hadid, a former star of our Emirati team, complained, saying, “The local sports street and technical critics have already given their opinion regarding the Arubarina contract, but there is no life for the caller The problem lies in not taking the correct opinion, so we’ve been floundering since the 1990 World Cup, so we’ve wasted our time and money.
Hadid underlined the big difference between managing clubs and national teams, indicating that the Argentine coach had never led any national team in his career.
The retired player stressed: “It is very important to choose an experienced manager, because every game played by Al-Abyad is considered a championship and there is no room for compensation.”
