Dodge Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Tom Smithies The Arab clubs will not and even consider letting their players leave for Europe or let alone play outside their own country. But in recent moves, this trend will broken very soon. Already 4 Arabic players, 3 which of whom took 1st 2nd and 3rd of Asian player of the year will be heading to England. Saudi's Asian Player of the Year Yasser Al-Qahtani is on trial with Middleborough. Iraqi duo Younes Makhmoud and Nashrat Akram or on trial with high flying Man City And this is a very strange and unusual thing to hear but Arsenal are trialing a 17 year old no name from Lebanon by the name of Khaled Nasra who actually impressed scouts in the Under 23 Beijing Olympic Qualifiers. All 4 of these players could set a trend for arab players leaving their homelands to make their mark on Europe especially in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 And this is a very strange and unusual thing to hear but Arsenal are trialing a 17 year old no name from Lebanon by the name of Khaled Nasra who actually impressed scouts in the Under 23 Beijing Olympic Qualifiers. Reminds me of this: I can see more and more Arab players coming over to Europe to play because the quality of the Asian-Arabs has improved tremendously - this was underlined by Iraq winning the Asian cup and it was first brought to the public's attention when Saudi Arabia drew 0-0 with England a ten years ago but the papers glossed over that and lambasted England for not winning a meaningless friendly. Chelsea have been getting friendly with the AFC in recent times and there has even been a suggestion that the Asian player of the year automatically wins a contract with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Arsenal are trialing a 17 year old no name from Lebanon by the name of Khaled Nasra Er...if his name is Khaled Nasra how can he have no name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 The footballer formerly known as Khaled Nasra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted January 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 i dont know must be an unknown player? but other then that, Iraq were just lucky to win the asian cup. you will see how badly they will perform in the confeds cup next year when they take on the likes of brazil and who ever is the euro champion in 08. they have been performing very poorly after the asian cup. they got knocked out by australia in the olympic qualifiers. Saudi Arabia are the biggest overated bunch of hacks in world football. they have 'best team' on paper but just dont know how to win a bloody game! look at their performances in the past 3 world cups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reg Reagan Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 who are these players? i have never heard of them before. tried google them but nothing has come up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted January 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 This is just plain wrong... this is coming from sydneys sunday newspaper Danny Weidler Iraq's fantastic duo Nashrat Akram and Younis Makhmoud move to Man City has been cancelled due to their work permit being rejected. City's coach Eriksson will keep in touch with 2 Iraqi players. Also a young Lebanese striker Khaled Nasra's trial to Arsenal has been cancelled due to Khaled Nasra having relative links with Lebanese terrorist group the Hezbollah Guerella. He has also been banned to enter Britain, France, Italy and Spain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 (edited) Gatting feels sorry for Nasra tribalfooball.com - January 28, 2008 Arsenal youth coach Steve Gatting is disapointed of Nasra's refusal entry into the UK. The 17 year old Lebanese striker was due for a trial with Arsenal youth team on January 23 but was held in customs at Heathrow Airport and was not responding to any of the questions from 2 Scotland Yard detectives as he could not understand english. Lebanese Britain's consulate Fernanda Alves was called into Heathrow Airport to help the detectives to answer their questions. Gattings first spotted Nasra at the Olympic Qualifiers in Beirut and was impressed with skills Nasra showed off in front of Gattings. Khaled Nasra has been sent back to his Hassan Nasrallah owned club Nejmeh and has been banned to enter any of the EU nations and Israel due to having an uncle being with the Lebanese Terrorist group Hezbollah Guerilla which is too owned by Hassan Nasrallah. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I dont like Lebanese people but this is very harsh on the kid. i dont think he has done anything wrong Edited January 28, 2008 by Dodge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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