Adel Al -Hosani .. The best league guards outside the White List

The recent period witnessed a clear brilliance of the Sharjah goalkeeper, Adel Al-Hosani, who turned into a popular icon with the fans of Sharjah, especially after the team finally led to qualify for the semi-finals in the “AFC Champions League 2”, after beating Al-Ahly youth with a penalty shootout 5-4 in the second leg of the quarter-finals.

Despite his remarkable brilliance in several matches, Al -Hosani is outside the accounts of the national team coach, Portuguese Paulo Pinto, as the last list of his name was free in preparation for the matches of Iran and North Korea in the third round of the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.

According to a statistic monitored by «Emirates Today» from the official website of the Professional League Association, Adel Al -Hosani (35 years) is the least goalkeeper of the ADNOC Professional League, receiving goals, as his net was shaken only seven times in 16 games in the league, beating all the goalkeepers, including Hamad Al -Maqbali, Al -Ahly youth goalkeeper, the league leader who comes in second place in terms of the least reception of the goals with 13 goals That the Sharjah nets were shaken eight times in 17 rounds, including one goal that was received by the alternative goalkeeper of the team, Hamdan Al Hammadi, in the Bani Yas match in the seventh round that ended with the victory of Sharjah 4-1, which is the only match in which Adel Al-Hosani was absent from guarding the Sharjah goal.

Adel Al -Hosani played a heroic role during his team’s last match, during which he won the man of the match, after he starred since the beginning of the match in addressing many dangerous balls, the most prominent of which was the confrontation of the decisive penalty kick that Al -Ahly player Kwan Santos, the fourth kick, led Sharjah to win the match, and qualify for the semi -finals in the Asian Championship, and before that Al -Hosani also succeeded in addressing 3 kicks A penalty shootout in the Sharjah match against Al-Hussein Irbid, the Jordanian, in the second leg of the round of 16 in the same tournament, ending the match 3-0.

On the level of the league, Al -Hosani participated in 16 basic games out of 17, while he was absent from the team in only one match against Bani Yas in the seventh round, due to the suspension penalty after receiving the red card during his team’s match against Al -Ahly youth in the sixth round of the league, and the number of minutes of play he played with the team in the league reached 1439 minutes.

For his part, the director of the Sharjah team, Badr Ahmed, told «Emirates Today»: “Adel Al -Hosani has been developing from one match to another, and he deserves to be in guarding the team’s goal despite our respect for the goalkeepers who were chosen in the list.” He added: «Adel has previously represented the team, so he will not be new to Al -Abyad, as he has great experience, whether at the local or international level, but in the end this matter remains the convictions of trainers, but we hope that Adel Al -Hosani will be among the list that defends the emblem of the Emirates team.

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