Fragile Decades – Abdel Hakim Mustafa
Al-Zawraa Club management has terminated its contract with Cameroonian professional Clarence Bitang and Brazilian Matthews Silva by mutual consent in a step aimed at reorganizing the team’s ranks during the next stage. Al-Zawraa Club President Haider Shanshul said in a statement exclusively to Al-Sabah Sports: The decision to terminate the contract came due to the inability of the players to provide the required technical addition, in addition to the recommendations of the coaching staff, stressing that the management is working to reorganize the team and address the weaknesses in a way that will serve its results in the next stage.
The management of Al-Zawraa Club contented itself with publishing the reason for terminating the contract with the Cameroonian and Brazilian professionals, without holding itself responsible for contracting with the players, or holding the coach responsible for contracting with Cameroonian Clarence Petang and Brazilian Matheus Silva. We do not know the details of the financial loss incurred by the management of Al-Zawraa Club as a result of terminating the contract with unproductive players before the end of the sports season. We wondered and wonder again, what is the mechanism for bringing in the professional player, does the club management… Is she responsible for selecting the player, or is the club team coach the first decision maker to bring in the professional player? How does the club team coach know that the professional player has the required experience, competence, and skill? Did the coach learn about the player’s abilities via a video tape only? Does the player’s agent have a decisive opinion in evaluating and bringing in the professional player? We do not find adequate answers to these questions. This is an undoubted indicator that the concluded contract is technically fragile, first and foremost.
In the context of dispensing with professional players and the fragility of contracts, Al-Qassim Club waived the services of its professional players, after the situation reached the point of being unable to pay the players’ monthly salaries. More than one party is accused of organizing fragile contracts. The management of the sports club is the first accused because it knows everything about its financial situation, and is supposed to wait in concluding contracts with professional players, and rely on promising young players until the financial hardship is overcome, and the second accused is the professional player himself, because he He does not read the details of the contract carefully before accepting the offer to play presented to him by the club, and the third defendant is the player’s agent who does not verify the club’s financial competence before concluding the contract with the club’s management.
Some assert that applying all licensing provisions to clubs participating in the Iraq Stars League, the Premier League, and the First Division League before the start of the sports season, prevents, to a large extent, the organization of any playing contract for any professional player, which does not meet the necessary legal conditions, and ensuring legally that the financial efficiency of the sports club resolves all the problems that hinder the player’s continuation with the club team he represents.
When will the employment contracts of players and coaches in local leagues be subject to strict legal oversight? When will the mechanism for contracting with players and coaches have the necessary technical conditions and the required clarity? When will the waste of public money stop? Questions open for a period that is difficult to name.
