Many of the current generation do not remember this player! He is one of the best Arab players who dazzled the football fans with his level and high technique. He was the talk of the Arab sports street at the time. In December of the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two, 1982, the idea of hosting the Arab national team to participate in a friendly match with one of the Dutch teams occurred to my dear brother, Mr. Sultan bin Khalid Al Suwaidi, then President of the Qatar Football Association. Sultan, who was known for his Arab nationalism and his great love for all Arab athletes, was the first to implement this idea on the ground. Indeed, the idea turned from a dream into a reality, and Arab stars came to Doha Al Arab to participate in this unique event.
The Arab team shined at the time, and played a beautiful match and won four goals to one, and the audience enjoyed the players’ performance, but the star that most impressed people at that time was the great brown Libyan star, Fawzi Al-Issawi, who played a great match and appeared at a wonderful level. He won the admiration of even the opposing team, and there were three Some of the goals scored came thanks to his passes. News about Libyan football and its stars was almost unknown to most people. Media communication with them at the time was weak. Al-Saqr magazine did not enter the Libyan market due to problems in distribution and financial transfers. Therefore, it was difficult for football fans to get to know the football stars in Libya. Al-Saqr was the bridge of communication between Arab players and their fans.
Fawzi Al-Issawi was a brilliant star and a player with great potential, but his bad luck was that in that year most of the football federations in the Gulf took a decision to prevent the use of non-citizen professional players to participate in football activities. Otherwise, if such a decision had not been taken, Al-Issawi would have been a player and a star in He was in the ranks of one of the Gulf teams at the time, even though he had won the title of best player in the African Nations Championship, which was held in Libya in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two, 1982 AD, ahead of the stars of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and all the stars of Africa.
News of Fawzi Al-Issawi disappeared from the football fans after that. I have not heard about his name and I do not know where he is now!! But what I am saying is that at that time, as football fans, we enjoyed a star player named Fawzi Al-Issawi. The first picture of him playing that historic match at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha.
Source | The official account of Qatari journalist Saad Al-Rumaihi on the X platform
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