Private sources told Okaz that the international experts in the Saudi Football History Documentation Working Group will be satisfied with advisory roles without specific powers to take decisive and decisive decisions in the stages of monitoring, documentation and approval.
The sources added that the international experts, nominated by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), will evaluate previous experiences in the International Federation and continental and local federations around the world, and benefit from best practices in monitoring and documentation processes.
The sources added that a number of Saudi sports historians asked the team of international experts not to evoke fixed equations to apply in the process of documenting the Saudi championships, citing the complexities that the Saudi competitions have gone through since the inception of football in the Kingdom, and to ensure access to a mechanism and methodology that is fair and appropriate to the conditions and variables of football. local through all its previous stages.
The list of international experts nominated by the International Federation of Football Associations included the German Michael Schalmomels, the official of the Heritage Department at the International Football Association Museum, who supervised many exhibitions related to the history of world football, and the British Guy Oliver, a historian specializing in world football and a consultant to the International Federation. For sports history affairs, the Frenchman Paige Lavgante, a professor in the FIFA Master’s Program and a founding member of the FIFA Master’s Program and a member of the International Center for Sports Studies CIES, the American Kevin Talek, a professor in the FIFA Master’s Program and a member of the International Center for Sports Studies CIES, and the Moroccan Karim Ghazzawi, a researcher and sports historian.
The work team documenting the history of Saudi football approved the general tasks of club representatives and the work team, and it also agreed on the appropriate number of the work team, 11 members to be nominated by clubs within a maximum period of April 15, 2023.
This came during the first founding meeting held by the Working Group Documenting the History of Saudi Football, last (Monday), in the city of Riyadh. Abdelaziz, and the League of Professionals and International Historians nominated by FIFA.
The representatives agreed to give the clubs an opportunity to send all the documents that support the project in a way that achieves the full benefit.
Abdulaziz Al-Nahdi (Jeddah) @abdullazizNahdi