Between Annabi and Nashama, our hearts are suspended

Written by: Abdullah Al-Harazi
Two days ago, no football fan across the continent of Asia expected that the Jordanian Nashami team would be a party in the final of the nineteenth edition of the continental championship, given the circumstances that the team experienced, which faced a torrent of criticism in the Jordanian street, but the Nashami team led by the Moroccan Hussein Amouta reflected expectations with hard work and perseverance in giving until they reached the final at the expense of former champions, most notably South Korea and the brotherly neighbor, the Iraqi national team before them. With its rise to the final and writing a bright page for Jordanian football, voices rose from the ocean to the Gulf, shouting and encouraging the new face of Arab football that had begun its presence. In the Asian Championship finals more than a quarter of a century ago, with the Kuwaiti Blue, which illuminated the way for Arab football to ascend the throne of Asia, and after it, these teams were able to win the title five times, and the Doha Championship will be the sixth of 12 finals between the years 1980 and the Kuwait Stars team at that time. And Annabi Qatar 2019 is Jordan’s partner in the third Arab final on Saturday evening, as the first Arab final was in 1996 in the Gulf and between two Gulf teams: Saudi Arabia, which won the title three times in 1996, 1988, and 1984, and the Emirates team, which is still striving to achieve the goal, and then it was the second final. The year 2007 was between Iraq, which won the title for the first time, and the Saudi national team. Whatever the result on Saturday, we will congratulate the winner of this edition, and we will say to Akhiya, who did not succeed, better luck in the coming times, and you will not be blamed after you reach the final.
If I delayed talking about Qatari club Al-Anabi, this is because Al-Anabi has become an experienced team and is the holder of the last title. The team was preparing for the most important event the Arab region has known throughout the history of football, “the Qatar World Cup 2022,” and many ambitions were pinned on it, but the team was not successful in attending that because The psychological pressures on him were greater than his ability to endure, so he was one of the candidates for the current tournament as compensation for what he had lost, and the fear was that he would succumb to the public and media pressures he was subjected to before the World Cup, in the face of the high morale of the Nashami team, which paves the way for him to win, and here it will appear. The skill of the administrative bodies of the two teams in how they prepare them to win in their most important position.