According to press reports, the Saudi Al-Ahly Club technical staff, led by South African Pittu Mousimani, is looking for experimental matches after postponing four games so that the team could choose its players, goalkeeper Mohamed Al-Rubaie and team striker Haytham Asiri, to join the Saudi national team camp currently taking place in Abu Dhabi in preparation for the 2022 World Cup finals.
The club management is negotiating with many Saudi League clubs to hold experimental matches, according to the Saudi publication “Al-Riyadiah,” since the coach wants to play four quality matches before returning to finish the second-class games.
The publication noted that the Saudi Al-Ahly administration complies with Mousimani’s demands after he oversaw his squad in three games beginning in the sixth round, which helped his team move up four spots in the second division’s overall rankings.
The team was in seventh place when Mousimani took over the mission after the fifth round ended. He then inspired the team to move up to third place with 15 points by scoring 7 out of a possible 9 points in three confrontations, pulling 4 points ahead of leader Al-Faisaly and 3 points ahead of the second-place groove.
Mousimani started his career with Al -Ahly with a draw against Jeddah “1-1”, and then he achieved two consecutive wins against Najran “2-1” and Riyadh “2-0”, and thus his start with the Saudi Youssef Anbar, who led the team in the same issue of the matches “won 2 and draw 1” After Robert Sebuldi of Uruguay was fired after losing in two rounds, he briefly took over the task.
Under Mousimani’s direction, the squad scored five goals, received two goals, and kept his goalie’s net clean once, knowing that this was the first time he had ever scored three goals in a row, as opposed to the two periods that Youssef Anbar and Sibeldi were in charge.
Mousimani requests that the Saudi Al-Ahly confront the Professional League clubs.
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