Al-Ahli Saudi FC

The statement is on the X channel of Turki al-Sheikh.

And even separately, we saw that the Saudi Pro League has rescheduled three football fixtures, including Al-Ahli against Al-Nasr.

And they also cited operational requirements and mandatory restrictions.

rest periods.

Staying in football from the AFC Champions League elite, Christian, uh, Cristiano Ronaldo scored Al-Nassr's second goal as the Saudi Pro League champions beat Uzbekistan's Navbahor Namangan 3-1 in Riyadh for their first win in the group stage after two games.

Reigning tournament champions Al Ahli beat Al Wasl 3-1 in Dubai and claimed their first victory in the Champions League this season.

And finally, Shanxi Xinrei Professional Basketball Club has announced that Dallas Wings center Li Jieru will join the team and play selected games in the 2026 to '27 WCBA season.

Li's expected to feature in some early regular season games before departing for the United States in December to compete in the Unrivaled league.

And the Golden Boot winner, Sam Cosgrove, who in a fascinating turn of events wasn't but now is free to play in round one of the A-League season, um, against Melbourne City on Saturday afternoon.

He was given a red card in, uh, Auckland's game against Al-Ahli in the Intercontinental Cup and was given a two-game suspension.

And because that was played in a FIFA match, they had the power to, uh, apply that to, you know, FIFA competitions, which the A-League obviously is, and that suspension was applied.

And then, uh, earlier today on Monday when we were recording this episode, it was announced by the A-League that Sam, uh, was deemed to have served his suspension because he is eligible to play through-

So, in match day one, Neftchi of Uzbekistan beat Air Force Club of Iraq, one-nil.

Shabab Al-Ahli beats Tractor one-nil.

Um, Al Shamal and Al Ettifaq drew one-one, a very exciting game, and Al Shamal, uh, played very well.

Um, Al Ahli of Saudi, defending, two-time defending champions, drew against Pastorkor one-one as well.

Um, if you're like a football or Asian football nerd, this is the type of game that you're gonna enjoy.

It was very good.

Um, as for Shabab Al-Ahli against Tractor, we, we talked about Tractor.

We talked about the whole situation about Iranian football, which we're gonna talk about in abundance today.

Welcome back to Football Recap.

This week, we're looking at a match from Saudi Arabia where Al Ahli achieved a victory over Al Fateh.

The final score at the Al Fateh Club Stadium was Al Fateh zero, Al Ahli four.

Al Ahli had sixty-one point nine percent possession compared to Al Fateh's thirty-eight point one.

Al Ahli registered seventeen shots, with ten on target, while Al Fateh managed five shots, with one on target.

The scoring opened in the thirty-first minute, with Francisco Trincao putting Al Ahli ahead.

The score at halftime was zero-one.

The second half saw Al Ahli extend their lead.

Uh, Alisson Santos left for Napoli for 17 million euros, also a left winger.

Francisco Trincão moved to Al-Ahli for 40 million euros.

And then as you mentioned, uh, Kenda moved to s- Chelsea for 50 million euros.

So that's four wingers who have departed the club Is, is, do you think had they not left, Flavio would have had this opportunity or do you think he'd still be sitting in the B team or the under 19s, uh, struggling to get game time?

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Hajjam scored the first, first, uh, first minute of the game against Zambia, um-

diversification strategies, that this idea of sort of throwing money around left, right and center is now being moved away to, can we afford it? Or rather, let's put money in with a view to perhaps setting up some of the investments for private sales later on.

We're seeing this already with some of the football clubs in Saudi Arabia, like Al-Hilal al-Nasr, al-Itihad, and al-Ahli.

They're now having their ownership shifted, the stakes of the public investment fund shifted so that they become much more non-profit foundations and maybe eventually for private sale.

So we're seeing shifts in Saudi Arabia and that could also have consequences because as you recall, just barely a year ago, was it a year ago or two years ago, they became...