At the start of 12/13 season ahmed who is 12 and a half finaly was given the green light to participate in games from the start of the season
It only took him 1 match to show coplete dominane
A hatric with 4 assists. For the opposite team alwahda can only watch in while ahmed waved throgh their defence.
No on can stop him
No one can even catch him
When he dribbled. He passed. When he passed. He assisted. When he shot. He scored. Try to stand in front of him. He will pass you in a blink. Try to tackle him. He will dodge you. Try to cut oasses to him. He will get to the ball ball before you and make a fool of you in 2 moves
Cut the way of his passes and sorrond him he will find a pass that you never saw coming. Try to prevent him from shoting. He will faint and pass you. Open a space for himself and be will shot and score
He was the center of the team. Every one will pass to him. Ecause somehow to matter how many you put to mark him he will somehow still find a way to be free and recive the ball. Challenge him in pace. And he will outpace you
This was maddnes.
Only 30m into the game and the wahda team felt like surrendering the game and going home
The match ended 9-0
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Eventhough he was putting an absolute show It was hard to catch the attention of the media. But it was ok. He was still a youth player after all he knew that it will not be easy. Halfway through the season. The ittihad is leading the league by a 18 point from the second place al-ahly. And he was the top scorer and top assistant in the league. By 30 goals and 22 assists.
This was ok. This was more thsn enough at the end of the season. He is sure to catch the attention of the media and first team coach. A couple more years and he will be able to join the first squad. He was sure of it
But what he didn't know. That he is going to catch a bigger fish
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Rijkaard was finished. He was sure
After being apointed as a head coach for saudi arabia team for one year and a half. His journey was going to end
After his failure to reach the world cup and the match against Australia which is being called the (biggest disappointment) by the media and the fans. He was given one more chance. Which was the 21st arabian Gulf cup
And he fu**ed up
After losing 2-0 to iraq. And winning 2-0 against yemen. All he had to do was pull a win agains kuwait.
Which he couldn't.
He can talk days and days about how much time it took for an ideas of a coach to stick in the heads of the players and for them to(Actually f**king listen to the fliping instructions)
But they wouldn't listen
It was the 12 of January 2013. And he had a metting in 4 days with the head of saudi arabia football association
He didn't need to be told what it was gonna be about for him to know
He is getting sacked. This he is sure about.
They wouldn't listen to his excuses. Because to them it was just that
Excuses
He couldn't finish the mission. He was jure about it
He signed and stood up and walked to the balocony
At least the hotel is nice
He decided to spend his last days in ksa most beutiful city. Jeddah
And the bride of the redsee didn't disappoint
But there is something that is missing
No. Missing is a wrong word.
Something that he is longing for
He kept starting at the see from the balocony for a couple of minutes and then grabbed his phone and called the num. of his appointed assistant
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Yes. Mr omar. How have you been... no the hotel is good. Fantastic even.... Yeah yeah. No problem at all .....no no i didn't call to ask About the meeting in partical. Bit it's good to know that it is gonna be in time Yeah. I had a favour to ask….. no no. Not that kind of favour. But thxs for your generosity . Yeah. If it's not much to ask. ............... ............... ............... ...............
Is there any football academies that i can visit?
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He waited for a couple of seconds
And then came the reply from the other side of the phone
Huh?????
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This is a wierd way to start the day Though omar who was apointed as rijkaard assistante.
The soon to be sacked dutch coach was enjoying his time in Jeddah best hotel for the time being untill the association finished the realease papers and went through all the details with the lawyers
His job? To be an escort of the dutch. Answer any questions. And make sure his stay was perfect
They wouldn't want there rebutation to be ruined in Europe after all
So when he got the call in the early morning. He was getting ready to hear the most bizarre request
Asking to visit a youth academy was not one of them
But he was not appointed to say no. But he was sure was going to ask why?
And what an answer he got
You see. The hotel and view are awsoms. But i am a man who grow up playing football breathing football. untill i made it my job whether it was playing and coaching and when i grew up and had nothing to to bored in my home country i whouod always in the earlly morning go and watch the academy kids doing the morning practice in the nearby school. Which became a habit. And so i would like to do the same. It is relaxing for. Plus i am curius about the level of the youth here and whether it was promising or not
Really. He might not did what was expected from him. But he is a football legend As a player or coach.
And of course he had no reason to refuse. And took him to the best acadimy available in jeddah
The ittihad acadimy
In the car He thoughts about calling in advance but before he call raise his but rijkaard said
Did you call them to tell them i am Coming. Plz dont. I want to see everything in its real state. And not because they were informed that i am coming. Make it a surprise for the kids
And again he is in no pos to say no
So a surprise is a surprise