86 players in the league over the age of 30

Statistics monitored by “Emirates Today” from the official website of the Professional League revealed that 86 players on the lists of the 14 professional league clubs are over 30 years old, including two players who are 40 years old, namely Shabab Al-Ahly defender Walid Abbas, and Dibba goalkeeper Muhammad Salem Al-Ruwaihi.

Al Dhafra goalkeeper Abdullah Sultan is ranked second after Walid Abbas and Al Ruwaihi in terms of the league’s oldest players (39 years old), while Kalba Club topped the list of clubs with the most players over the age of 30 with 10 players, followed by Khor Fakkan Club (9 players), then Al Bataeh, Dibba and Ajman (7 players), then Al Wahda, Shabab Al Ahly, Sharjah and Bani Yas (6 players), Al Dhafra, Al Wasl, Al Nasr (5 players), and Al Ain. (4 players), and the island (3 players).

The list of younger players in the UAE League included nine 16-year-old players: Al-Jazira player Butti Al-Junaibi, Al-Wahda player Tim Zaki, and Kalba player Issa Al-Balushi, in addition to Dibba players Hamid Al-Saridi, goalkeeper Ibrahim Jaafar, Abdullah Al-Abdouli, Yassin Salama, Olawlaw Adeyemo, and Muhammad Al-Yammahi.

According to statistics, the Sharjah Club list included goalkeeper Adel Al Hosani (36 years old), Shaheen Abdul Rahman (33 years old), Argentine Geronimo Pobleti (33 years old), Brazilian Igor Cornado (33 years old), Majed Hassan (33 years old), and Caio Lucas (31 years old).

The Al Jazira Club list included goalkeeper Ali Khasif (38 years old), Brazilian Willian Rocha (31 years old), Mohamed Elneny (33 years old), and Nabil Fekir (32 years old).

While the Al-Ahly youth list included goalkeeper Hassan Hamza (31 years old), Serbian Bogdan Blanic (34 years old), Walid Abbas (40 years old), Federico Cartabia (33 years old), Serbian Nemanja Maksimovic (31 years old), and Iranian Sardar Azmoun (31 years old).

From Al Dhafra, goalkeeper Amjad Al-Sayed (35 years old), goalkeeper Abdullah Sultan (39 years old), Moroccan Mohsen Al-Rabja (31 years old), Rayan Yaslam (31 years old), and Khalil Ibrahim (32 years old).

The unit’s list included Sasha Ivkovic (32 years old), Gaston Suarez (32 years old), Serbian Dusan Tadic (37 years old), Syrian Omar Khribin (32 years old), Christian Benteke (35 years old), and Caio Canedo (35 years old).

Al-Wasl’s list included goalkeeper Khaled Al-Junaibi (36 years old), Salem Al-Azizi (33 years old), Moroccan Sofiane Bouftini (31 years old), Fabio de Lima (32 years old), and Colombian Miguel Borja (33 years old). The Al Ain club list included goalkeeper Khaled Issa (36 years old), Egyptian Rami Rabiaa (32 years old), Argentine Alejandro Sebastian (31 years old), and Togolese Laba Kodjo, the league’s top scorer so far (34 years old).

While the Baniyas Club list included goalkeeper Fahd Al Dhanhani (34 years old), Adel Al Hashemi (33 years old), Mohammed Al Hammadi (36 years old), Fawaz Al Musabi (37 years old), Moanis Dabour (33 years old), and Frenchman Youssef Nyakteh (33 years old).

The Khor Fakkan Club list included goalkeeper Rashid Ali (36 years old), Ahmed Jashk (31 years old), Abdullah Al-Naqbi (32 years old), Abdul Rahman Youssef (32 years old), Ahmed Barman (32 years old), Saeed Ahmed (32 years old), Brazilian Felipe Augusto (32 years old), Portuguese Elton Felipe (32 years old), and Tariq Tisodale (32 years old).

The Dibba Club list included goalkeeper Muhammad Salem Al-Ruwaihi (40 years old), Iago Azevedo (33 years old), Ali Muhammad (34 years old), Brazilian Carlos Vinicius (31 years old), Walid Hussein (33 years old), Brazilian Indigo de Araujo (31 years old), and Abdullah Khamis (33 years old).

The Al-Nasr Club list included goalkeeper Ahmed Shembeh (32 years old), Abdullah Al-Tamimi (32 years old), Salem Sultan (32 years old), Norwegian Marius Hoybraten (31 years old), and Serbian Luka Milovojevic (34 years old).

From Ajman Club, goalkeeper Ali Al Hosani (37 years old), goalkeeper Muhammad Youssef (34 years old), goalkeeper Youssef Ahmed (36 years old), Belgian Joko Zakov (31 years old), Abdullah Saleh (37 years old), Brazilian Yuri Matisse (31 years old), and Moroccan Yahya Gibran (34 years old).

While the Kalba Club list included goalkeeper Sultan Al-Mundhiri (33 years old), Salem Rashid (32 years old), Abdul Salam Al-Dabdoub (33 years old), Slovenian Miha Blazic (32 years old), Iranian Ahmed Nourallah (33 years old), Khaled Al-Darmaki (34 years old), Saman Quddus (32 years old), Ali Salmin (31 years old), Danish Andreas Maxso (31 years old), and Iranian Shahriar Moganlou (31 years old). years).

The list of Al-Bataeh included Ibrahim Issa (31 years old), Adelson Alberto (31 years old), Rashid Muhair (32 years old), Abdulaziz Heikal (35 years old), Daniel Bessa (33 years old), Al-Hassan Saleh (34 years old), and Noha Diko (33 years old).

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Al Hammadi: Any team needs “youth and experience”

Media personality and sports analyst, Adel Mohammed Al-Hammadi, told Emirates Al-Youm: “Any team needs both youth and experience,” adding: “In the past, exceeding the age of 30 for a football player was a rare and strange thing, but in the last 10 years it has been observed that the average age of the player has increased.”

He explained: “The most prominent examples locally are Ismail Matar, who retired from playing at the age of 41, and internationally the legend Cristiano Ronaldo (41 years old), who still continues to play, as well as the Croatian player Luka Modric (40 years old), the historic captain of the Croatia national team.”

He added: “Change in any team does not occur completely and in one season, but rather occurs in stages, gradually, so that a gap does not occur and the team is not negatively affected.”

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