At its first meeting yesterday following its new formation under the chairmanship of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan for the 2023-2027 election cycle, the UAE Football Association’s board of directors outlined a roadmap for the next phase of work. , discussing the new organizational structure, reducing, canceling and merging certain committees and discussing the file for preparation of committees, it decided on four important files represented by the creation of committees and approval of its leaders and representatives. For future elections, this file is a key priority for the Football Association’s new board of directors.

The confederation reduced its main committees and abolished the National Teams Committee, whose responsibility was transferred to technical management and concerned with the national team file by developing plans and programs for the national teams, especially since the Football Association realized that the national teams. The Emirates is entering a very important phase in the history of football, especially as the first national team to compete in a cup final. Asia 2023, scheduled for next January in Qatar, as well as joint qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and 2027 Asia will feature the Cup and Olympic team in the AFC U-23 Cup final in Qatar.

Sports Street is waiting for the new formation of the administration, which will carry out the process of fully monitoring the teams that were previously attached to the National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee. The Union discussed the work of the governing body as part of efforts to bring about new change and benefit from previous experiences with the work of the previous board of directors.

It is clear that the Union wants to pursue a policy away from administrative disorganization and multiplicity of committees and departments within the Union by reducing the committees, merging them and abolishing some of them. It is compatible with the new organizational structure which was announced during the first meeting, but its features were not fully revealed.

During its first meeting, the main committees of the Football Association were limited to six committees: Competitions, Finance, Referees, Women’s Football, Sports Medicine and Beach Soccer, and the leadership of the Competition Committee was assigned to the Second Vice-President of the Federation. Obaid Al Shamsi.

At the Finance Committee level, Council Member Hisham Al Jarouni returned as its Chairman after previously serving as its Chairman, while Council Member Amal Bouchlak retained the position of Chairman of the Women’s Football Committee, which she held for many years. And Salem Ali Al Shamsi, who was a member of the previous board of directors and is no longer a member of the Football Association’s board of directors, retained his position as chairman of the referees committee for the second consecutive session.

Omar Al-Hai Al-Muhairi is considered one of the new faces as a member of the Football Federation’s Board of Directors, having previously served as a member of the Disciplinary Committee, and was appointed to the Beach Soccer Committee in the new structure. Mustafa Al-Sayed Al-Hashimi, although no longer a member of the Football Association’s Board of Directors, also retained the position of Chairman of the Sports Medicine Committee.

4 files

1- Formation of six main groups of the Football Association.

2- Discussing the new organizational structure.

3- Reducing groups, merging them and canceling some of them.

4- File to prepare teams for future matches.

The national team will face Kuwait and Lebanon in friendlies on October 12 and 17

The management of the first national football team has fixed the dates for the team’s next internal meeting from the 9th to the 17th of next month, while they will play two friendlies against the national teams of Kuwait and Lebanon respectively. Joint qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and 2027 Asian Cup are scheduled in Qatar next January, on October 12 and 17, as part of the team’s preparations for the Asian Cup finals.

The upcoming gathering for the team under new Portuguese coach Paulo Bento has played a friendly against the Costa Rica national team during Pinto’s reign, after playing in two previous camps in Austria and Croatia.