AMMAN — Al-Wehdat and Al-Jazeera will face off today,
Sunday, at the Amman International stadium in a bid to bag the 38th Jordan
Super Cup.
Winning today’s game would earn Al-Wehdat its 14th Super Cup
title since the event’s launch in 1981, while a win for Al-Jazeera would earn
the team its second title.
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Al-Wehdat’s football manager, Mohammad Jamal, told Jordan
News: “We are playing this game for a title…there will be no room for
compensation so, God willing, we will get through this and make it up to our
fans.” Jamal’s remarks came in reference
to Al-Wehdat’s loss of the Jordan Shield Cup to Al-Jalil, last March.
“Al-Jazeera is a major team that is widely respected; and
with regard to what is being circulated on social media about Al-Jazeera’s
absence and its circumstances, I would like to reaffirm that Al-Jazeera is a
large team and will play with those who attend,” Jamal said, noting that it
will be a difficult game for both teams.
Commenting on Al-Jazeera’s difficult financial
circumstances, the club’s administrative manager, Muhannad Al-Maharmeh, told
Jordan News: “It is unfortunate that we always reach championship (playoffs)
while circumstances are difficult and unfavorable, so we are hoping to perform
well, especially after the end of the football federation’s attachment of the
club’s funds.”
Al-Maharmeh added: This match is the new season’s opener. We
will hopefully play a match that (lives up) to the standards of both teams. We
hope to win despite the circumstances we have gone through…”. He noted that the
team’s preparations were lacking following the players’ almost 10-day strike
back in March.
Al-Wehdat, is set to jet off to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to compete
in the 2021 AFC Champions League, and will start making their way through the
tournament, as part of Group D, with a game against the Saudi Al-Nassr on April
14.
Al-Wehdat will play six games in the Champions league —
scheduled between April 14 and April 29 — with matches against Al-Nassr,
Qatar’s Al-Sadd, and the winner between UAE’s Al-Ain and Iran’s Foolad clubs.
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