Ittihad Jeddah’s Romanian coach Cosmin Contra has revealed his reasons for leaving the team, explaining the reasons why the team did not win the Saudi Arabian title.

Saudi club Al-Ittihad announced the signing of a contract with Portuguese coach Nuno Santo, who will replace Romanian Cosmin Contra.

In an interview, Kuzmin said: “The competition was stopped several times, and the teams played only six matches in four months, which turned everything upside down and led to the Mohammed bin Salman Pro Cup title in the recent period, and Al “Ittihada are great fans, they always support him.”

He added: “I wanted to give the Al Ittihad fans a championship title, I wanted to make them happy because they always support it and they deserve this title. We tried to do everything in our power to make it happen, but unfortunately we couldn’t.”

He concluded: “I still feel like a punch in the stomach because I failed to give them the joy they deserve and Al-Hilal and Al-Nasr have three times the budget of ours.”

Eddie Khoury