AMMAN — The former striker for Al-Ramtha team and the
Jordanian national football team, Khaled Al-Aqouri, received his Golden Boot
award for "Arab scorer" 32 years after it was erroneously awarded to the
Saudi Sami Al-Jaber in 1990, on Tuesday.
اضافة اعلان
The story of the erroneously awarded Golden Boot dates back
to the 1989–1990 season, when the Lebanese magazine, Al-Watan, awarded the Arab
scorer boot to Saudi’s Al-Hilal SFC striker Sami Al-Jaber, due to an error in
counting the total goals. However, this was later discovered, and the boot was
returned to Aqouri, who scored a total of 16 goals in 18 matches in that
season.
Aqouri expressed his excitement at recovering his award. “Thank
God,” he said in an interview with Jordan News. He also thanked the Lawyer
Awni Al-Zoubi, stating “that he promised and fulfilled his promise, and now the
award returned to the rightful owner.”
“The award will remain a memory and archive in the history
of Jordanian football and my football career. If I had got the award at the
correct time, then maybe my finances would have improved, I would have been
honored in a better way, or I got opportunities to go professional abroad, but
thank God for everything," he concluded.
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