Al-Nassr Sounds Alarm on Organized Campaigns, Sets Tone for Fair Play in Saudi Football

Al-Nassr Responds to Media Frenzy

Official statement from Al-Nassr addresses media coverage it views as harmful to the Saudi football project and the club itself.

The club says it remains fully committed to operating under the league rules and regulations, warning against rising rhetoric intended to sway public opinion and what it calls organized campaigns.

Details of the Statement

In the statement, Al-Nassr asserted that since the start of the season it has opposed campaigns of disruption, doubt and public agitation that have come from sports entities through statements, television channels, and public appearances by representatives of some clubs and their former honorary members.

It added that the remarks included insults and insinuations about the Saudi sports project and about Al-Nassr, through explicit accusations of steering the competition, which contradict the realities on the ground and aim to inflame public opinion and pressure committees and sports authorities to serve the interests behind the campaigns.

It continued that there was a hope to deter these practices, but they did not occur, allowing the campaigns to escalate, with the return of those who practiced them before the project to administrative positions at clubs.

It also warned that what happened in the last couple of days represents a sports precedent, an explicit example aimed at taking sport out of its proper frame, threatening the gains and the integrity of competition through a misleading, organized media campaign designed to inflame the sports milieu and influence public opinion by misinterpreting and leveling petty accusations.

It added that the club reiterates its full commitment to operate under the governed rules and regulations, trusts the competent official bodies to halt these practices, ensures equality and justice in applying rules to all parties without exception, preserves the integrity of competition, and curbs attempts to manufacture media narratives or organized campaigns that harm the Saudi sports project and its pillars.

Finally, the statement read that Al-Nassr’s company has long avoided replying to such irresponsible acts, despite ongoing monitoring; yet attempts to stir public opinion against Al-Nassr compelled them to issue this statement, confirming that the board seeks to relay the full picture to the relevant authorities to stop these transgressions, and to remain vigilant against any insults directed at coaches, players and all club staff to protect workers and their rights.

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