World

Asia

Saudi Arabia

Media Confusion

May 14th, 2006 | By: Shahed | 2 Comments »

It is hilarious to see the ultimate media confusion regarding the match between Saudi Arabia and Togo. The goal was scored by Malik Muazz ( Malik Ali Hawsawi) with a pass from Sami Jaber.

The media’s story is this:

Malek Ali Al-Hawsawi collected Mohammed Ameen Haidar’s throughball in the 85th minute before slipping the ball home

The picture of the goal scorer Malek Ali Al Hawsawi is:

If you know know Malik and Muhammad Noor, you know what I am talking about. The picture above is of Muhammad Noor and not even the goal scorer. It’s just that Muhammad Noor has the same last name ( Hawsawi) as Malid Muazz.

Also the world cup website has the name confused. Muhammad Noor Hawsawi is Mustafa Hawsawi.

The media needs some facial education on Saudi Arabia before the World Cup, so they can identify players by their face not their last names!

Tags: Malik Muazz, Media, Muhammad Noor, Sami Jaber, Saudi Arabia, Togo

Saudi Arabia World Cup RSS Feed

Comments

By Markus | May 15th, 2006 at 12:25 am

Shahed,

thank you for your cleaning information. You are absolutely right, that media needs some facial education on Saudi Arabia. So do I!

As I mentioned before, it is nearly impossible to get propper information about your team.

Maybe, you could tell me (us) more about the team and the players in the remaining weeks. As far as I know, today is the day of announcing the team members to FIFA, so that there are “only” 23 players left.

Another important information would be the remaining friendlies. The information on fifaworldcup.com and in the worldcup-magazines that I read are very few and sometimes different.

We have a german site (www.worldcupwiki.org) containing lots of informations around the WC. As this site is only in german language, you can imagine, that the saudi players are just mentioned by name. There is no information about the players themselfs.
If you do write articles about players, I would translate them into german and post them - of course only if you would allow it.

Maybe we could close this lack of information.

Most important of all: next stop = the czech team in innsbruck - is that right?

I might have the chance to watch this match on tv, due to the fact, that there are some czech tv channels available here in germany.

Greetings from Stuttgart

Markus

Posted from Germany

By Shahed | May 15th, 2006 at 10:14 pm

Greeting Markus,

I don’t mind you helping out in spreading more information about the players in English or in German. Earlier, compiling information of the team was harder, as the roster would constantly change and I had to keep with the change. But with the 23 players, you can easily do so now.

Another problem that rises with the Saudi players, is the lack of information. Its really hard to find information about Saudi players in English or in Arabic. Even though I have watched the Saudi league, I never learned anything about the players except the talents.

I will be working in the coming days in completing a full blown information about the team and team’s player. I would pass on the file to you, hopefully.

Yes, Saudi Arabia is playing Czech in Innsbruck. Then they will play their final game against Turkey.

Thanks for showing high enthusiasm for the team.

Posted from Saudi Arabia