Media coverage reported a bad incident in which the captain of the Saudi Arabian national football team and a player for Al Shabab fell from the second floor of a balcony of his residence in Dubai. It has been suggested that the event happened sometime between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Thursday, requiring urgent medical intervention.
The 30-year-old was taken to Rashid Hospital in Dubai with multiple fractures and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. Al Shabab said it was true that the man had been involved in a blast but did not give the degree of injury that the man had incurred.
In a statement, the club said: “On the morning of September 12, 2024, the player had a fall at his private home in Dubai: he was taken to a hospital where he received necessary medical assistance. The President of the Federation, the Minister of Sports, His Highness Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, the Saudi Football Federation, the Saudi Embassy in Abu Dhabi, the General Consulate in Dubai.
Al Muwallad was reported to be home alone at the time of the accident, which, as suggested in the report, was at least three hours before the accident occurred. Some probes are already being done, which include scanning the street and home-captured tapes/cameras to determine the causes of the fall.
Al Muwallad, in the early days of his professional football career, joined Al-Ittihad, a Saudi Arabia Club where he scored almost 76 goals from more than 240 appearances. He also went on loan to Spanish club Levante during his time in Spain, where he became the first Saudi Arabian player to play in the Spanish La Liga, though he only played two matches.
He has featured in 38 games for Al Shabab since joining the team in 2022 while scoring 2 goals and has been a vital force to his team. Before the accident, he featured in all the 2024/25 season games. He recently featured for KSA in the World Cup qualifiers against Indonesia and China, where he played 19 minutes in the two matches.
