There is no doubt that many of the former players were a model of sincerity and sacrifice, and they served their clubs and their country’s national team in a past period in which there was no professionalism system and no monthly salaries paid to them from their clubs. Rather, some of them used to give up their bonuses if their club was going through a financial crisis and the sports needs they secured in light of the financial scarcity. What the clubs used to be like in the ancient past.. in a picture that embodies the summit of loyalty, sincerity and sacrifice for these players.. But after time has passed, we see some of those who were imprisoned by health, material and psychological conditions, and suddenly found themselves living on subsistence, and others whose conditions grieved the heart a lot with the increase in humanitarian cases Which we read in some newspapers about the conditions of some old players who were overwhelmed by health, living and psychological conditions, and found themselves outside the framework of adequate security in terms of living and health and reassurance about their living future in light of the harsh conditions and permanent suffering. Years of loyalty, giving, and sacrifice. blood money. Unfortunately, the “social aspect” in most of the big sports clubs is absent today, and its role is greatly absent in checking such sports cases that need a compassionate human pause to alleviate the harshness of life and the suffering of the disease.
Here, sports clubs should implement the social aspect in its loyal human template towards everyone who served his club, gave and sacrificed for it for years, and later went through dire living and health conditions after leaving the ball.
But in the midst of this disregard by most of the clubs towards their loyal sons who served their career with all giving and dedication, the humanitarian and social roles of the sports leadership and its noble interaction with many cases must be praised, perhaps the latest of which is the initiative of the Saudi Football Association represented in allocating the income of the Super Cup final, which brought Al-Ittihad together with Al-Fayhaa recently. For the benefit of the family of the late international player Shaya Al-Nafisa – may God Almighty have mercy on him – under the generous guidance of Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, Minister of Sports, in sincere appreciation and gratitude for what the late international star presented in his football career with the first national team and his active contribution with the rest of the Saudi football stars in achieving Green Falcons Eighth Asian Nations Cup in 1984 for the first time after Shaya scored a precious goal that is still engraved in the memory of green art lovers in the gold final against the Chinese team.
And as an extension of the noble humanitarian initiatives of the “loyal prince of sports” Abdulaziz Al-Faisal, we hope that the white hands will extend to the family of the international star, the player of the former Al-Ahly and military teams, Nawaf Khamis, who passed away a few days ago after a long suffering with illness, to relieve them of the bitterness of loss and the sorrow of leaving, where he was – may God have mercy on him – He suffers from diabetes and then chronic kidney failure, which deteriorated his health after he was doing hemodialysis 3 times a week, then he suffered severe complications that led to gangrene, and therefore the doctors decided to amputate his left foot, which It was once a reason for his brilliance and stardom with all the Sunni teams before he represented Al-Akhdar in various international, civil and military competitions since 1983 AD and thus contributed to some of his golden achievements such as the Asian Cup and the Los Angeles Olympics .. as one of the prominent defenders in the history of the “Sheikh of Clubs”. And the Saudi national team.
