The foreign whistle was absent from the past five rounds of the ADNOC Professional Football League, despite the presence of sensitive matches represented in the summit of victory and Al -Wasl in the 16th round led by referee Ahmed Salem Khalfan, Al -Wasl with Al Ain in round 17 led by referee Yahya Al Mulla, and victory with Al -Jazeera in the same round that the referee Muhammad Al -Haramoudi, and the “Classico Abu Dhabi” match between Al -Wahda and Al -Ain in round 18 led by Sultan Muhammad righteous.
The teams refrained from the request for the use of foreign ruling in the recent period at a time when the competition for the title is intensifying with Al -Ahly youth to the league with 47 points, seven points behind its closest competitors, Sharjah, followed by Al -Wahda (31 points), then Al -Jazeera (30 points), and Al -Ain (29 points).
The foreign whistle appeared in the league 10 times until the 18th round, the first was the first match with Al -Nasr in the third round led by German referee Felix Zwire, and in the Al -Ahly and Al -Wahda youth match in the same round led by Dutch referee Danny Makili, and led the Al Ain and Al -Wasl match in the fourth round French referee Cleon Torban, and the foreign whistle also appeared in the fifth round during the summit of Al Ain and Al Wahda led by the Italian referee Davidi Masa, while the Brazilian referee Wilton Pereira led the Al Ain and Al -Ahly youth match in the seventh round, and the same referee led Sharjah with Al -Wahda in the tenth round, and in the same round, German referee Daniel Cibert led the Al -Jazeera and Al Ain match, and the Slovenian referee Slavco Vinting was ranked Al -Ahly and Al -Wasl in the same round, and the Mexican referee Cesar Ramos managed the Al Ain match with Sharjah in the 11th round. Russian referee Sergey Karasif, Al -Ahly and Al -Jazeera youth match in round 13.
The foreign whistle recorded the largest attendance in the matches where the eye is a party (five times), and the youth of Al -Ahly came second (four times), Al -Wasl and Al -Wahda third (three times), Sharjah and Al -Jazeera fourth (twice), and Victory Fifth (once).
For his part, the former international referee in football, Abdullah Al -Aji, said that more than one team of big clubs is away from competing for the lead, as well as Al -Ahly’s youth approaching the title by up to 80% behind the reluctance of these clubs to use the foreign whistle.
He added to «Emirates Today»: “Many clubs do not see a feasibility of paying the amount of 170 thousand dirhams in exchange for the use of foreign rule in one match, especially after Al -Ahly’s youth approached the title of the title.”
He explained, “The approach to the league title is approaching in favor of Al -Ahly youth, which reduced the pressure on the judges of the stadiums, and made them lead the matches comfortably, so that the referees committee in the Football Association began to pay referees for the first time in managing the league matches.”
He added: «The last three rounds also witnessed the return of local video referees to participate in the management of the league matches, contrary to what was happening in the past after all the referees (Al -Far) were foreign, while the judges of the local stadiums were assistant video referees.
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