SME-Written by: Ali Al-Basha
• It recently came to my attention that the Secretary-General of the Football House, Al-Siddiq Rashid Al-Zoubi, blamed the media for not attending press conferences. Including the last conference organized for the coaches of the futsal teams in the qualifiers of our team’s group; Which was absent from everyone belonging to the media body, whether officials or others, and this is an uncivilized view that we were always alert to, especially since the event is being organized on the soil of Bahrain.
• Al-Zoubi’s reproach must be accepted by media professionals with open arms. When the invitations reach them in detail in terms of sufficient time; The event or date of transmission, and it is not surprising that they are linked to important coverage, because such conferences are binding on any federation by the regional and continental federations; Even local competitions are important in marketing contracts!
• It is also of technical benefit to the media professionals themselves. It is related to presenting them to matches or summarizing to them the technical levels of the teams’ coaches themselves. Thus, the journalist is able to provide rich material to the sports-following street, and the journalist spares himself the need for unsuccessful efforts, and he does not fall into a circle of embarrassment with his followers or even the coaches themselves when they see in his media presentations that are inconsistent with the truth.
• This suffering is not the result of coincidence, but it existed previously; Even for neighboring countries, we witnessed this in reality during tournaments, and also the conference hall was filled with employees from the federations themselves, which is an open trick, as in the end the media material will be passed between everyone; Simple modifications may be made to it to prevent similarity, and to make the federation a success in front of its guests and its continental federation.
• There is no doubt that these conferences should not be held with less than five media professionals if we want them to be credible, and here the union must support the means of communication and communication with the media and media professionals; Before the General Secretariat directs the reasons for absenteeism to various media professionals, and in my opinion, direct communication with media professionals through direct communication with media professionals, which gives them value for what they do.
• The Football Association must establish regulations for such conferences. Instead of leaving it to narrow jurisprudence, it achieved one success after another, by improving the means of communication, including simultaneous translation whenever the language of the speaking party is foreign, and not claiming that the Continental Union does not accept anything other than English, while it holds its Congress in many languages with simultaneous translation!
• It remains here for us to put forward a proposal for the Football Club and other federations that are striving to become professional; Linking the issuance of a free entry card to media professionals and photographers, making them obligated to attend press conferences called by the Federation for matches and other events;
Especially since the release is free, and all media professionals are rushing to it who think they would like to be present in the field to watch and follow up.!
