سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — فهم التفاصيل (تدريب 7377)

Passage A (1)June 1994 was a special month for Saudi Arabian soccer when the team went to a first World Cup and Saeed al-Owaian ran through the Belgium defence in Washington to send the Green Falcons into the knockout stages. (2)October 2021 was surely the best since. At the end of the first week, the national team, with two wins in the final round of qualification against Vietnam and Oman under their belt, defeated Japan, long regarded as Asia’s best, 1-0. Five days later, there was a thrilling 3-2 victory over China in front of 50,000 delighted fans in Jeddah. (3)With four of the 10 games in the stage completed, Saudi Arabia is the only one of Asia’s 12 surviving qualifiers to have a perfect record. It would be a surprise if the team did not make the short trip to Qatar at the end of 2022. (4)The coach, Hervé Renard, who took the job in July 2019 after leaving Morocco, has added a more aggressive and hard-working style to the obvious talent of some players. The four-time Asian champions are in a very good place at the moment. (5)The one area where there is a real need for improvement is in attack. The Green Falcons do not score enough. A player with a real eye for goal would help them improve even further. Passage B (1)Four days after the national team’s victory over China, Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr, the big Riyadh clubs with 26 league titles between them, were in action in the AFC Champions League quarter-finals. They both won easily, which ensured an exciting all-Saudi semi-final three days later. Al-Hilal won 2-1 and went on to victory in the Champions League final on November 23 to win a record fourth Asian title against Pohang Steelers of South Korea. (2)The future would be brighter still if certain problems were solved. Lack of patience when it comes to hiring and firing coaches is no longer surprises but still shocks. Al- Ittihad fired their manager after one game this season, and Al-Taawoun and Al- Tai after two each. (3)By October, seven of 16 clubs had changed coaches, with the season not finished one-third. It is not surprising; there is little or no reason for managers to look beyond the next game or risk playing young players. (4)The league allows seven foreign players per club, compared with four in most Asian nations, and teams like to stack up on attacking talent. This has not helped the national team because it means that few Saudi attacking players get a chance to play. It would not be such a problem if local talent went overseas, but that has yet to happen. What can we understand from passages A and B about Saudi Arabian soccer?