Officially, the agreement appoints Saad Al -Shehri as a technical director of the team

The Saudi Al -Ittifaq Club announced, in an official statement, that the Saudi coach Saad Al -Shehri was appointed as technical director of the first team to succeed English Stephen Gerrard, and this step comes after the contract with Gerard was canceled by mutual consent between the two parties in January, as a result of the bad results achieved by the team in the recent period.

Thus, Al -Shehri will oversee the leadership of the team until the end of the current season 2024/2025, in an attempt to return the team to the right track and achieve the desired results.

The agreement had strengthened its ranks during the current winter transfer period with several new deals, the last of which was the inclusion of the player Mukhtar Ali, the average field of Al -Nasr Club, in a move aimed at strengthening the technical squad of the team.

On the other hand, Al -Ittifaq fans are awaiting a strong confrontation in the Saudi Professional League, where the team meets its youth counterpart in the eighteenth round of the tournament, and the match will be held on Friday, January 31, 2025, at Igo Stadium, the stronghold of Al -Ittifaq Club, at exactly eight o'clock in the evening Mecca time Al -Mukarramah, and seven in the evening Cairo time.

The team management and the technical staff led by Saad Al -Shehri seeks to achieve an important victory in this important match in order to improve the team’s ranking in the league table and move away from the danger point.