The star of the national team in three-point shooting, Omar Al-Amiri, known as “Amouri Basketball,” confirmed that the medical staff in his new club, Shabab Al-Ahly, is making a great effort to help him recover from the injury he sustained at the ankle level, and to ensure his participation in the two upcoming confrontations against the Lebanese and Bahrain national teams on two days. November 22 and 25, respectively, within the second window of the final stage of the qualifiers for the 2025 Asian Cup, and being among the continent’s top leaders for the coming years.
Al-Amri told “Emirates Today”: “The medical staff at Shabab Al-Ahly Club is racing against time through intensive treatment periods, to give me the possibility of recovering from the severe injury at the ankle level, which I sustained in the match between my Shabab Al-Ahly team, on the fifth of this month, against Al-Ahly.” The Bahraini is in the West Asian Super League, and it forced me to put my feet in a cast and miss the current preparation stages for the national team and the foreign camp in Serbia in preparation for the matches between Lebanon and Bahrain.”
He explained: “The picture is still vague about the treatment and recovery period, but the club’s medical staff, under the supervision of Dr. Mohamed Essam, and team manager Zayed Khwaidem, are doing the utmost in their energy through intensive morning and evening treatment periods to secure my return as soon as possible, with the hope of being on the list.” The national team in its two important matches.
He added: “I have great confidence, in the event that I do not recover in time, in the ability of my colleagues to provide a level worthy of the Emirati basket, and our hopes are high that we will snatch qualification at the right time, with a third window of the final stage remaining next February, with the ambition of achieving the goal that we aspire to by returning.” To the Asian Cup after a long absence, and gave this generation of current players more achievements, after we were crowned together in 2022 with the gold medal at the Gulf Games in Kuwait, in an achievement that is the most important in my career so far with (Al-Abyad).
Star of the Triads
Amouri pointed out the importance of the three-pointers that he excels at in sensitive matches, especially against competitors the size of the Lebanese and Bahrain national teams, many of whose players have high success rates in scoring with these shots. He said: “I work very hard in training to maintain high success rates in Scoring three-pointers, which in basketball is considered a point of superiority that benefits one team over another in sensitive matches, including, for example, my scoring in February of 2023, one of the most important shots in my career with the national team, when seven seconds before the final whistle, I was able to score a shot. It was enough for us to emerge victorious by one point at the expense of Kuwait, with a score of 68-67, in the match that brought us together in Doha in the early stages of the Asian qualifiers.”
Thirst for titles
“Amouri” (33 years old) revealed the motivation behind his move to his new club, Shabab Al-Ahly, and said: “My thirst for more titles was the reason behind my move to the Shabab Al-Ahly team, which has 61 local and foreign titles in its coffers, as the most Emirati club to win the basketball championship, whether locally.” Or externally, because it has a championship team that includes an elite group of international players, in addition to its strong presence externally in the West Asian Super League, and in July of this year it was able to reach the final of the AFC Champions League.
He continued: “I have all respect for the former club, Al-Sharjah, in which I grew up, and I joined its first team since 2007, and together we achieved remarkable achievements at the local and foreign levels, most notably giving the Emirati basketball the only title in the Arab club championships, by crowning (the king) in the 2011 edition, in addition to the double. Sharjah’s history in the Gulf club championships in two consecutive editions in 2018 and 2019, and it achieved an unprecedented record in the history of the tournament in terms of successive victories, with (the King) then winning 11 matches in a row over the course of our journey to win the title of the two editions.”
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