The Kuwait national football team had to be escorted out of the Robina Stadium in Australia’s Gold Coast by police on Saturday after refusing to play a friendly against the UAE. According to sources, Kuwait took exception to the fact the Asian Cup warm-up game couldn’t be filmed by their technical staff and so abandoned the friendly match in protest. They stayed on the field for an impromptu training session instead. [Source]
Did I read that correctly? Because the game wasn’t going to be filmed the Kuwaiti team decided they didn’t want to play anymore? Kinda reminds me of a story my friend told me about this guy who goes to his gym. The guy always comes in, starts lifting some weight while taking selfies and then once he is done taking selfies he leaves the gym.
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To have video of the game, gives the team a way to see what’s wrong with the team in an objective level, video is actually a key part of a training friendly now, and to not have it gives the team a game that they can’t look back and review what they did right/wrong. They were totally in the right to refuse the warm-up game.
Umm not quite Mark… I recommend reading the newspaper article about it, I think before yesterday.
Well I’m done trying to get people to support them even when they are losing. You are there to represent your country and take home the win. You are there to make your country proud. If people can take pride in them quitting over footage let them root away. They just pulled an Axl Rose. Good job guys
Nice GNR analogy that will sadly be lost on the Kayne West generation.
It is my understanding that it was previously agreed that there was to be no taping. Why they agreed to that is puzzling, but one must honor one’s agreements.
I am sure there’s far more to it than meets the eye. Scratch a little harder beneath the surface for answers.
Why don’t you talk about when the Lebanese national team refused to play because they weren’t served taboola at their hotel before the match.
Because this is a blog about kuwait not lebanon. If youre looking for a lebanese blog check out http://www.blogbaladi.com
when was that?
Someone is butthurt! It should be hummus you un-cultured primate.
I think the report is not accurate. The Emarati team walked out. The dispute was over the new Kuwait coach wanting to video-tape the match which the emarati coach objected to.
in any case… its a dumb situation and the fact that it was provoked and the match was canceled because of Kuwait coach being stubborn shows the type of ideologies running the team.
Dear Mark
First of all, any team has the right to film their game unless both teams agrees not to film the game and this should be when they were negotiating the day of the game, the stadium which the game will be held in etc.
Second of all, when both team were warming up the coach of the UAE national team informed the Kuwaiti staff that he doesn’t want the game to be filmed, otherwise the UAE team wiuld not participate in the game. With all respet, he does not have the authority to do so as it was presviously agreed.
Last but not least, the Kuwait National team decided to train instead of playing with UAE.
I read the comments above and realized that no one really explained what really happened. I’ll try my best to explain. The Kuwaiti coach was recently appointed as head coach and has only trained the Kuwaiti team for a few weeks. The Kuwaiti management asked the UAE team if they could record the game on a private Kuwaiti camera that would only be used by the Kuwaiti coaching staff to look over his players movements, and work rates. The UAE didn’t reject the request at first, but right before the game, their coach decided to reject the recording (which is honestly his choice, but still shouldn’t have come minutes before the game). Because the Kuwaiti team travelled hours to get to the stadium that the UAE were training at to play a game against them, they thought that they should be entitiled to a training session atleast just so that they wouldn’t miss a whole day of football. Despite this, the UAE coach had that the sprinklers be turned on on the Kuwaiti team while they were on the field (pictures could be found online). The UAE team also requested the Australian police to kick the Kuwaiti team outside of the field.
I read the comments above and realized that no one really explained what really happened. I’ll try my best to explain. The Kuwaiti coach was recently appointed as head coach and has only trained the Kuwaiti team for a few weeks. The Kuwaiti management asked the UAE team if they could record the game on a private Kuwaiti camera that would only be used by the Kuwaiti coaching staff to look over his players movements, and work rates. The UAE didn’t reject the request at first, but right before the game, their coach decided to reject the recording (which is honestly his choice, but still shouldn’t have come minutes before the game). Because the Kuwaiti team travelled hours to get to the stadium that the UAE were training at to play a game against them, they thought that they should be entitled to a training session atleast just so that they wouldn’t miss a whole day of football. Despite this, the UAE coach had that the sprinklers be turned on on the Kuwaiti team while they were on the field (pictures could be found online). The UAE team also requested the Australian police to kick the Kuwaiti team outside of the field.
The UAE team is at fault
From all the press accounts I’ve read, it was the Kuwait team who reneged on the no-taping agreement.
We are Kuwaitis. We are never wrong. Spell your name right then talk to us ;/
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My apologies.
https://sport360.com/article/uae/30971/uae-fa-saddened-over-cancellation-pre-asian-cup-kuwait-friendly-match
Here is unbiased source of news…
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/underdogs-kuwait-have-tim-cahill-in-their-sights-20150105-12i7js.html
https://sport360.com/article/uae/30912/kuwait-forced-exit-stadium-after-refusing-play-uae-asian-cup-warm
Here is unbiased source of news…
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/underdogs-kuwait-have-tim-cahill-in-their-sights-20150105-12i7js.html
Kuwait or UAE. Why so much fuss over videotaping? Its just a damn outdoor game (friendly practice that too!). Probably both sides fearing getting thrashed 20 – 0 and ending up on the youtube front page?
Who Cares!
This is the funniest thing I have ever read 🙂 Kuwait team big Fail regardless of video or no video. You were there to play a friendly but turned unfriendly !
The UAE was unfriendly
The UAE team is at fault here! The Kuwait team did nothing wrong!
Get your facts straight.
The coach needs the match footage to review mistakes full etc etc for training purposes. And if he can’t do that then what’s the use of playing the friendly 2/3 before your first very important Asia Cup match risking injuries to players.
Posting something like this when you know nothing about football
+1
The English-language media is always misreporting about Kuwait, they suck at translations and never get the story right