The Middle Eastern country’s sports ministry has informed Ramón Díaz’s team that it will award nearly $100 million to each member of the team who took part in the historic win over Mengao.
In Saudi Arabia, they celebrate. Al Hilal’s surprise victory over Flamengo, 3-2, in the Club World Cup semi-final has sparked madness in a country that is seeing its teams start to take center stage in international competition.
“This is the first time that Al-hilal has reached a final and I imagine the Arab people must be very happy. We are happy and enjoying the great moment said Ramón Díaz, the Argentine coach who won the recognition of all the Arab people. The strategist has become the first manager to lead a Saudi side to the Club World Cup final.
The feat did not go unnoticed by the Saudi government. The Ministry of Sports announced that each member of the team would receive 500,000 Saudi riyals ($106 million) after defeating the team which included Chileans Arturo Vidal and Erick Pulgar, according to the Brazilian portal Globoesportes.
The award was announced by Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, Minister of Sports. Al Hilal thanked them through the club’s board chairman, Fahad Alotaibi. “A sincere thank you to His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz for the initiative to congratulate and financially reward the champions after the historic qualification for the final” said the manager.
Al Hilal achieves the feat in his fourth appearance in the competition, having been chosen by the Asian Confederation to represent the continent, as local champions of the Champions League. Two other Asian clubs had already reached the World Cup final: Kashima Antlers of Japan in 2016 and Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates in 2018. Both represented the host country in these editions and lost to at Real Madrid.
Criticism of Vidal and Pulgar in Brazil
In Brazil, we do not forgive the failure of the World Club. Local media point to several footballers in the squad, including Arturo Vidal and Erick Pulgar.
The first darts were for Thumb. Lance media, for example, rated it 4 out of a maximum of ten. “How it happened. Unexplainable kick, yellow for the first game of the second half and passing error that led to Vietto’s goal “, they recorded in their one by one.
Worse was the rating given by Globoesporte, which gave it a 2 on the same scale. “He started thinking he would improve the team, but he made the mistake that ended in his elimination. He also received an unnecessary yellow card “, they recorded.
In Vidal’s case, the footballer came on almost 10 minutes from time. In this section of the game, he failed to stand out. In fact, Lance decided not to give it a rating because “didn’t have time to show anything interesting ”.
Globoesporte, for its part, gave it a 3.5: “He started badly and missed games he doesn’t usually do “, they exposed. Of course, this panorama is not so gloomy compared to the way they referred to coach Vítor Pereira who ended up being rated one by the same media.
“Even with one down, he got the two masterminds out of the midfield. Bad decisions. He is one of the main responsible for one of the biggest embarrassments in the history of Flamengo “, they argued.
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