Bandar Suqrat

Central Defender - Al Shabab
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Marked for Bandar Suqrat

22 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match28 Dec 2026

Al Shabab are in real trouble now

Position 12, 15 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Diego Méndez shuts the door

Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Amer Al Hashmi, 33, rolls back the years — 7.91

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Al Shabab

Diego Méndez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces28 Dec 2026

Al Shabab supporters have found a favourite in Hamad Al Hammadi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Hamad Al Hammadi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match26 Dec 2026

Al Shabab get the job done against Al Fujairah

A 1‑0 win over Al Fujairah, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Faisal Al Naqbi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Loan watch28 Dec 2026

Hamad Khalfan has seen enough of Dibba

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Al Shabab, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Ismail Al Hashmi wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

In brief

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21 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Dec 2026

Fahad Omar decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match16 Dec 2026

The small margins put Al Shabab out

Out, 1‑1 to Al Ahli, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Nothing got past Bandar Suqrat

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Erick Flores

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match19 Dec 2026

Amer Al Hashmi the difference as Al Shabab beat Al Wasl

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Amer Al Hashmi. 1‑0 against Al Wasl, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Faisal Al Naqbi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

15 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match7 Nov 2026

No end in sight to Al Shabab's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Al Shabab has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Diego Méndez in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al Shabab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edinson Chávez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad9 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Bandar Suqrat

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bandar Suqrat, and the manager let it.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Ismail Al Shamsi

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch9 Nov 2026

Amer Al Kamali has seen enough of Sepahan

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Al Shabab, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

9 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market28 Sep 2026

Faisal Al Naqbi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al Shabab, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Fahad Omar keeps Al Shabab in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Bandar Suqrat

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Diego Méndez in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al Shabab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

Al Shabab supporters have found a favourite in Walid Al Bloushi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Walid Al Bloushi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match26 Sep 2026

Al Shabab find a way past Al Fujairah

Al Fujairah made Al Shabab work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edinson Chávez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A defender's afternoon for Faisal Al Naqbi

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Bandar Nader

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

  • Squad 5 new faces, and Al Shabab are still learning each other
  • Player ratings Nothing got past Diego Méndez