Suza .. Sixth coach to be crowned with the league in his first season

The Portuguese coach, Paulo Souza, entered the history of the ADNOC Professional League from its widest gates, after he led Al -Ahly youth to crown the title for the ninth time in his history, to become the sixth coach to achieve the achievement of the league title in his first season in the Emirates stadiums.

And “Dubai Knights” presented a historic season led by Paulo Souza, as he achieved his third title so far since the start of the season after winning the local Super Cup by defeating Al -Wasl by penalty shootout, and added his second title “Challenge Shield” by defeating Al Rayyan in the UAE Super Cup, and finally the league title, while he has the opportunity to add a fourth title when he faces Sharjah in the final of the President of the State Cup next week.

The 54 -year -old coach has the opportunity to become the most achieved for titles with Al -Ahly youth in one season despite losing the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup in the final against Al -Jazeera, and his exit from the quarter -finals of the “AFC Champions League 2” against Sharjah, but in the event that he crushes the cup title he will win his first season with “Dubai Knights” four titles in an unprecedented historical achievement.

Al -Ahly youth is the most achieved to achieve the league title with a coach who is in his first experience in the Emirates by three times to twice for Al Ain Club and once for Al Wasl Club.

The current coach of the Sharjah team leads,

Romanian Oario Cosmin, the list of two league titles in his first season with both Al Ain and Al -Ahly youth.

The Czech coach, Ivan Hasik, led the Al-Ahly youth team (in the name of Al-Ahly) in the first season of the Professional League 2008-2009 to become the first coach to score their names in the history of the competition, after he led the team to achieve the title for the first time in the era of professionalism, and in the first season in which he led the team as well.

On the other hand, the current coach of the Sharjah team has achieved,

Romanian Oario Cosmin, the same achievement, when he led Al Ain team to achieve his first competition in the history of the Professional League, in the first season of “Caesar” with the 2011-2012 team.

Cosmin repeated this with the Al-Ahly youth team, which he led in July 2013, to win the competition title in the 2013-2014 season.

The list also included Al Ain coach,

Ukrainian Sergio Riberov, who took over the mission in June 2021, and won the league title in the 2021-2022 season.

The Portuguese Leonardo Jardim joined the list, after he led Al-Ahly’s youth to achieve the title in the 2022-2023 season, which is also his first with the team.

On the other hand, the Serbian Milos Meloyevic became the latest joining of the list, under his leadership to achieve the league title for the eighth time in the history of the “Emperor”, while Meloyevic outperforms all the former coaches as the only coach who achieved the league dualism and the President of the State Cup in his first season with the UAE football.

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