Saudi international Faisal Al-Ghamdi led his Belgian club Beerskot to the quarter-finals of the Belgian Cup, for the first time in its history, after scoring the decisive penalty kick in the match that brought his team together with its guest Mechelen in the Round of 16 competitions.
The original and extra rounds of the match ended in a 2-2 draw, after which they resorted to penalty kicks, which Bershkot won 4-3 after Al-Ghamdi scored the decisive penalty kick, which lit up the stands and led to overwhelming joy on the field by the players of the purple team.
Al-Ittihad Club announced that it had agreed to loan players Faisal Al-Ghamdi and Marwan Al-Sahafi to the Belgian club Beerskot for one season.
The club indicated that the professionalization of players abroad comes within the programs and plans prepared to develop and support young talents, which will reflect positively on their levels and serve the goals of the club and Saudi sports in the future.
-Asharq Al-Awsat was the only one to publish a special report on the Saudi program to professionalize local talent on July 26 of last year.
The dedicated program seeks to support players participating in the ranks of the Saudi national team to have a professional experience with distinguished European clubs.
The program to professionalize Saudi players abroad comes as a result of work between the Ministry of Sports and the Saudi Football Federation. This is to target the most prominent names in the Saudi national team, as well as the Olympic team and the youth team, for the sake of external professionalism.
