Al Bataeh Football Club announced the signing of the Iranian coach Farhad Majidi with a contract extending until the end of the season. The signing took place in the presence of His Excellency Khalfan Saif Al Masafri, Chairman of Al Bataeh Football Club Company. Majidi led the training immediately after signing the contract. The Iranian coach stated in his first statement that Al Bataeh is a very good team but it did not get good results and has high Potential. We can get positive results. I spoke to the players and told them that we must work hard and train well to achieve our goals.

Al-Bataeh was able to defeat Al-Orouba with a clean goal scored by Cameroonian Anatoly in the 76th minute of the second half in the match that brought together the two teams at Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium in the twelfth country of the ADNOC Professional League Championship. It is considered the first match that Al-Bataeh will play after the dismissal of Croatian coach Goran Tomic if he takes over. The mission is the national coach, Mohammed Al-Raisi, and Al-Bataeh raised his score to 8 points in eleventh place

Al Bataeh coach Mohammed Al Raisi spoke in his first statement after taking over the team’s training duties, saying: “I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the chairman and members of the board of directors of Al Bataeh Football Club for the trust they have given me to coach the first team. I also thank the former coach Goran Tomic and I will try hard to complete the work towards achieving positive results as the team includes distinguished elements of experienced players and foreign players at a high level. Despite the short time for the upcoming match with Al-Orobah, we will try to work on the psychological and mental aspect in the first place and some technical matters. I am not a stranger to Al Bataeh Club as I am one of its sons and I know the players as most of them played matches under my leadership in the Professional League under 23 years old and all we hope for is to get the team out of the series of negative results.”

Al Bataeh assistant coach Adnan Mohammed spoke at the press conference for the Al Bataeh and Al Orouba match, saying: The circumstances of the two teams are similar in terms of their position in the standings and points, as a difficult and important match awaits us, and we will try to get the match points to improve our position in the league table. There is no doubt that the team’s position is not reassuring in terms of the number of points, but I am confident that the current group is able to provide a better level and win.

Our Cameroonian player Anatoly said that the Al Orouba match is important for us because the number of points for the two teams is close, and we trust in our capabilities and ability to overcome the difficult stage, which I consider normal in football. Regarding Al Orouba, he said that Al Orouba includes distinguished players and a good coach, but we will provide all our capabilities, and I say to the fans of Al Bataeh Club, do not worry about the team, as we are able to get out of the series of negative results

Al Bataeh Football Club announces the agreement with the Croatian first team coach Goran Tomic to terminate the contract by mutual consent and extends its sincere thanks to him for all the effort and dedication he has made in performing his duties during the past period, wishing him continued success and prosperity. It was also decided to assign the national coach Mohammed Al Raisi, coach of the under-23 team, to lead the first team temporarily.

In the eleventh round of the ADNOC Professional League, Al Bataeh lost its match against Al Jazira by three goals to nothing, which was held at Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium in Sharjah, freezing its score at 5 points in thirteenth place, as Al Bataeh coach entered with a lineup consisting of Darwish Mohammed, Denny Borges, Mohammed Ahmed, Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Rafael, Mohammed Juma, Maliki, Aziz Ganiev, Ahmed Khalil and Nicola Clemente. Al Jazira ended the first half with a goal from the ball completed by Mello after the ball returned from Al Bataeh goalkeeper Darwish Mohammed. In the second half, Al Bataeh coach made changes in the desire to return, but Al Jazira added the second and third goals, with which he ended the match. In the press conference that came after the match, Al Bataeh coach Goran Tomic said that the team was affected by the injury of some players during the preparation for the match, such as Alvaro and Anatol, and stated that his team presented a good defensive match in the first half.

Al Bataeh Croatian coach Goran Tomic spoke at the press conference for the Al Bataeh vs. Al Jazira match, saying: An important and difficult match awaits us against Al Jazira, and we know the quality of Al Jazira players. We played two matches against them in the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup, where the path of the game is clear to both parties. We learned hard during the break, and we aspire to start the new year in a better way than we ended last year. A positive mood prevails in the team and among the players.

Our player Saeed Juma said that the Al Jazira match will be difficult, as Al Jazira has great capabilities, but we trained well for this match and will follow the coach’s instructions. We are determined to start the new year in a distinctive way. We played previous matches against Al Jazira, as we know their way of playing, and we will seek to balance the team during the match to come out with a positive result