By John Duerden, Special to SI.com Despite decidedly mixed results as Al Wasl coach, Diego Maradona is in the running for the UAE national team job. The Austrian coach of UAE club Al Wahda Josef Hickersberger said in January that if he had been in the ...
However, Qais Al Dhalai, the RA's deputy secretary general, insists baby steps are enough for now. "The results are not important to us at present," said Al Dhalai, a former Al Wasl footballer who has been on the board of the RA since it was first ...
Meet the 51-year-old coach of Al Wasl, Argentinean legend Diego Maradona. Someone would term this as Maradona mystery. But the agile coach, who underwent a successful surgery at the Canadian Specialist Hospital on Sunday evening, flew to Shanghai after ...
He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1976. MARADONA WARNING: Diego Maradona warned the owners at Al Wasl that he may not return to coach the United Arab Emirates team next season if they don't buy the kind of players who would allow ...
Maradona, considered one of the best 50 Hall of Fame sports personalities in history, honored the festivities, marking the agreement with the Yellow Empire of Al Wasl Club as the best in UAE sports. The agreement with Maradona has generated a lot of ...
“I have to adapt as fast as possible – it's another type of soccer, another culture.” Pérez has spent the last four years on the books at current Mexican champs Tigres UANL. That stay included five loans, including a spell at Al-Wasl in the United Arab ...