The reporter reported coldly During the March international break, as many as 71 players were selected for the national team in the Saudi league, covering all 18 clubs in the league, including as many as 44 foreign internationals covering 16 clubs. Only two clubs, Sehat Gulf and Buraidah Pioneer, do not have foreign internationals, but the two clubs have two current Saudi internationals, striker Salim and goalkeeper Suyul, respectively.
Saudi Arabia's "Sports Daily" believes that in terms of the number of foreign aid international players, the Saudi league is not only an unprecedented height for Asian leagues, but even surpasses most leagues in the world, and can be called "the sixth largest league in the world".
Jeddah Nacional contributed the largest number of foreign internationals with five foreign players, including goalkeeper Edouard Mendy (Senegal), defender Demiral (Turkey), midfielders Riyad Mahrez (Algeria), Kessie (Ivory Coast) and defender Alyoski (North Macedonia), who is not registered in the first team. Riyadh Victory, Las Eternity, Mecca Unity, and Damac each have four foreign internationals, of which Riyadh Victory has goalkeeper Bento (Brazil), striker Mane (Senegal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) and Durán (Colombia).
Riyadh Crescent, Dammam Synergy, Riyadh and Qadisiya each have three foreign internationals, and Riyadh Crescent's three foreign internationals are goalkeeper Bounou (Morocco), central defender Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal) and midfielder Ruben Neves (Portugal).
League leaders Jeddah United have only one foreign international player from goalkeeper Rajkovic (Serbia). In addition to injuries, the number of big-name foreign players such as Benzema (France), Danilo (Portugal), and Bailevin (Netherlands) have retired from the national team.
Other Saudi teams have contributed foreign internationals, notably Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Stanciu (Romania), Stephen Hendry (Scotland), Basogo (Cameroon), Goodwin (Australia), Shukurov (Uzbekistan), Amin (Iraq), Soma (Syria) and Saudi Arabian League Winter Window Champion Kiniones (Mexico).
In addition to the above-mentioned big-name foreign aid, other foreign international players in the Saudi league are distributed in five continents except Oceania, of which Africa has the most, including Morocco, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Comoros, in addition, Europe, Asia, South America, including Slovakia, Finland, Jordan, Yemen, Bolivia, Panama, and even Jamaica and Curacao in the Caribbean islands of Central and North America.
Not only the Saudi First League, but also the second division's Nyoom also contributed 2 internationals. In addition to Saudi national team midfielder Ahmed Ghamdi, there is also Benrahma (Algeria).
In fact, if it weren't for the injuries of Riyadh Victory's central defender Aymeric Laporte (Spain), midfielder Otavio (Portugal), Riyadh Crescent's Joao Cancelo (Portugal), Milinkovic, Mitrovic (Serbia), Jeddah United's Kante (France), Oyar (Algeria), Mitaj (Albania) and Buraidah's Roger Martinez (Colombia), the Saudi Arabian league would have contributed more internationals during the March international break.
Senegal had as many as four players in the national team squad in March coming from the Saudi league. In addition to goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly, striker Sadio Mane, and striker Diallo (Damac). Portugal have Cristiano Ronaldo, Ruben Neves and Otavio, who was unselected due to injury. If Laporte (Spain) and N'Golo Kante (France) are not injured, they will also be selected this time. Brazil have backup goalkeeper Bento from the Saudi league, while Jeddah national striker Galeno has been named in the preliminary squad for March.
In contrast, at the peak of the "Golden Yuan Era" of the Chinese Super League, the number of foreign international players in a single international break did not exceed 20. During the March international break, only Guoan's Ngadeu (Cameroon) and InBev's Alimi (North Macedonia) supported the façade of foreign aid internationals, and Issa Caron of Rongcheng, although his uncle Caron coached the Sierra Leone national team, he did not enter the squad this time.