Special for Al Jazeera Net
20/7/2025–|Last update: 20:39 (Mecca time)
Oman– Jordanian football lives one of its best historical periods, after “Al -Nishami” succeeded in achieving two consecutive achievements: reaching the AFC Asian Cup 2023 in Doha, then direct qualification to the 2026 World Cup in America And Canada And Mexico. However, despite this glow, the professional performances received by the Jordanian team players remained without expectations, which shocked the Jordanian football fans, and prompted them to raise deep questions about the reasons behind this sad and baffling contradiction.
Among the weak offers, the lack of agents, and the fragility of media coverage, the Jordanian player’s journey to the real world of professionalism remains a comprehensive review that starts from the inside, to keep pace with the aspirations of fans who started to see in their team more than just a passing “Asian surprise”.
Transitions are not worthy of the World Cup team
With the exception of a limited number of names, such as Musa Al -Taamari, the star of the French Renhi, and the Al -Naimat weighs the Qatari Arab player, both of whom were nominated for the award for the best Asian player in the past year, in addition to the defender weighing the brilliant Arabs in South Korea With FC Sol, and the emerging talent Ibrahim Sabra, who fell with his Turkish Guziti, the rest of the players did not have performances of their achievements.
Even Al -Taamari itself deserves to join a stronger team in the five major leagues, as well as the decisive blisss that did not intercede its skills to find his way to the major European clubs as well.
But the two are better than Ali Alwan, who, despite the end of his contract with the Malaysian Selangor, is still without a club until now, while Mahmoud Mardi moved to the newly promoted Dibba Al -Fujairah Club to the UAE league.
In the middle of the field, Nour Al -Rawabdeh chose to continue with Cellangor, while the destination of Nizar Al -Rashdan remains unclear until the moment.
In the back line, Muhannad Abu Taha did not specify his destination after his Saudi Arabian team landed to the second division “Yelu”, while Mohamed Abu Club will complete his career in the Malaysian League with Cellangor, while Abdullah Nassib renewed his contract with the Jordanian league champion Hussein Irbid, to remain next to the goalkeeper Yazid Abu Laila.
A market value that does not reflect aspirations
According to the German “Transfermarkt” website specializing in market values and football economics, the market value of the whole Jordanian team does not exceed $ 18.5 million, which is a modest value compared to Asian teams that also qualified for the World Cup but rather less than the value of one player from the submerged in major leagues.
Moussa Al -Taamari tops the list with a market value of $ 7 million, followed by a large difference that weighs the blisses by 1.7 million dollars, while the value of the rest of the players is less than one million dollars, with an average of no more than 660 thousand dollars, which raises questions about the extent of the Jordanian player’s ability to market himself globally.
Limited marketing and absent agents
In the modern football world, the business agent has become a decisive factor in the player’s march, but the Jordanian market suffers from a clear shortage of professional agents, and their weak capabilities to negotiate and marketing. This deficiency contributed to the survival of a number of players without decades, despite the approaching start of the football season locally and Arably, which deprives them of the preparation periods with new clubs.
Sports journalist Ahmed Al -Mallahi believes that some foreign companies are moving in this field, and they succeeded in marketing players such as Ibrahim Sabra and Bakr Kalbouneh, but the biggest problem lies in the limited local agents, the weakness of their networks and their knowledge of regional and international patrols, which makes most of the offers confined to a narrow range that does not exceed the Gulf and Malaysia, and often from outside the elite clubs.
A professional mentality needs to be developed
The Jordanian player’s journey from the age groups to the first team, in light of the weak competition and marketing, delays his professional mentality. The player often lacks the chances of friction at high levels, which weakens his ability to discover his full potential.
Also, only a few players are interested in developing physical and nutritional aspects, or learning a second language (such as English) to facilitate communication in external professional environments.
Journalist Awni Freij believes that the Jordanian player has not yet reached the level that imposes himself in the transfer market, with the exception of only 4 names, indicating that some of the players accepted weak performances that harmed their technical value, which requires a double effort to reach the real professional stage.
My role without watching
Despite the raising of last season and the title of the title in the last moments, the Jordanian League championship remains outside the follow -up circle in the Arab world. The absence of attractive television transmission, and the limitation of broadcasting on the official channel, reduced the chances of the appearance of players and their acquisition of fame externally, compared to patrols such as Saudi, Egyptian, Qatari, and Emirati, which has become a kiss for players and marketing companies.