Khalil Al-Zayani, Dean of Saudi Coaches, thanked the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and his Crown Prince after his name was given to a street in the city of Dammam.
And in a nod to what Khalil Al-Zayani introduced, a street in the Al-Mazrouya district of Dammam was named after him, in honor of the great coach.
Al-Zayani was a football player for Al-Ettifak in the sixties, where he won the Crown Prince’s Cup and the King’s Cup in 1965.
After retiring, he moved into coaching, where he led the agreement and then the Saudi national team, and for the first time in the history of the kingdom won the Asian Cup of Nations in 1984 in Singapore, and continued with Al-Akhdar until 1986.
He then returned to training Al-Ittifaq, then Al-Qadisiya, Al-Nahda and Al-Hilal in the nineties and announced his retirement from training at the beginning of the second millennium and becoming part of the Technical Committee and the National Team Committee of the Football Association Saudi Arabia, then a lecturer at the AFC and a member of its technical committee.
