Small details separate Kozmin from the team’s training

A source familiar with the Emirates Today revealed that the Sharjah coach, Romanian Oario Cosmin, is close to training the national football team to succeed Portuguese Paulo Pinto, who was sacked against the backdrop of the recent results of Al -Abyad in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.

The team is third in the first group with 13 points, behind the leaders of Iran, which officially resolved the first qualification card to the World Cup, while the Uzbek team is second with 17 points.

The source added that the Football Association reached an initial agreement with Cosmin, nicknamed “Caesar”, and that some small details that await the final decisiveness between the Football Association and coach Cosmin remained.

The source continued that if the final agreement is reached on all the conditions set by the coach, including a long -term contract and a suitable financial amount and devotion to training the team, it is expected that the Football Association will hold a session with the coach to set a road map for the next stage, knowing that Kozmin’s contract with his current club Sharjah will end at the end of the current season.

It is noteworthy that Cosmin is currently busy with Sharjah, who will play an important match with his host Saudi Cooperation in the semi -finals of the “AFC Champions League 2”.

The Football Association has opened lines to communicate with some coaches, including Cosmin, to take over the team’s training in the next stage, during which the fan is facing great challenges, especially since his opportunity to directly qualify for the 2026 World Cup is still in place, provided that the remaining two matches are won against both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in the fifth and 10 June, in exchange for a loss or a tie of Uzbekistan against Qatar in the last tenth round of the qualifiers for the Cup. the world.

In the event that the team fails to qualify directly to the World Cup, it also has the opportunity to play in the qualifying attaché of the finals.

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3 Challenges for the Football Association to resolve the file

The Football Association faces three challenges in the file of contracting with the new coach, which will put him in the position of answering three questions. The first: Will contracting with him to be a temporary coach (i.e. only two games)? The second: Will the contract will be long with the situation in mind that the team may be playing the qualified attachment to the World Cup? And the third: How will the contract form with Cosmin be if it will abandon the training of Sharjah, or is there (duplication) in his work so that he is a coach for the team as well as Sharjah?

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