Dubai: Banned Al Wasl and UAE national team goalkeeper Majid Nasser has made the pages of October’s edition of British football magazine FourFourTwo — but for all the wrong reasons.
A monthly column entitled The Boy’s a Bit Loco profiles what it calls ‘nutters’ from the world of football, citing Nasser, 28, as “the rock-throwing rebel of the UAE.”
Delving into his colourful past, the article says: “It takes serious crazy to out-crazy Diego Maradona at a club, but Nasser managed just that during the Argentine’s tenure at Al Wasl.”
It goes on to review Nasser’s long list of previous misdemeanours, including a season’s ban for head-butting an opponent, which has now been reduced to nine matches, and a 17-match ban for slapping Al Ahli coach Quique Sanchez Flores.
The article also dredges up the time Nasser threw rocks at an assistant referee in 2001 and attacked a linesman in 2007.
Coach Bruno Metsu told Gulf News: “Majid is a good boy. He’s the best goalkeeper in the GCC. Sometimes you have to understand a keeper. You need to help him, not fight him. If he concedes two or three goals he goes crazy. But he’s a good person.”
