I need to scold the newspaper headline writer for this one.

“Matar man of the moment …” is how it started.

And anyone who follows UAE soccer would immediately think of someone other than the man to whom the headline writer was referring.

That would be Ismail Matar, the Al Wahda forward universally considered one of the three best players in UAE history.

But this time, Ismail, 32, was not the hero. For a change, it was little brother Yaser, the defender for Al Jazira. And two days short of his 30th birthday.

If you studied their faces, you would see a brotherly resemblance.

But to watch them play, you would never guess.

Ismail is a sort of round, semi-soft forward/playmaker who has scored 28 goals in 131 league matches since it was professionalized, for the 2008-09 season.

He has fine ball-control skills and is in better condition than he looks.

Ismail seems like a cheerful soul. He smiles a lot. Perhaps because he’s been a national hero since 2003, when he was named best player of the Fifa World Youth Championship, played in the UAE. (Andres Iniesta played in that tournament.)

He reinforced his “No. 1 in the UAE” status by scoring five of the team’s eight goals in winning the 2007 Gulf Cup of Nations — including the only goal in the semifinals versus Saudi Arabia, and the only goal in the final versus Oman. That was the first trophy the UAE won.

As recently as 2012, Ismail remained a big deal in the national team, scoring a goal in the match with Uruguay at the London Olympics.

To see his brother … is to be a bit startled they are family.

Yaser Matar has been with Jazira throughout the professional era, and for only a couple of the eight seasons has he been a regular in the first XI.

So, he is not the footballer his brother is. But he is different in other ways, too.

Yaser is a bundle of muscle. Always has been. He looks formidable out there, 175 pounds and no apparent body fat.

Also, Yaser has a temper. That would be the second thing I would say about him, if we “word associate” with “Yaser Mater”.

He looks angry on the pitch. Always. He looks as if he is spoiling for a fight just about all the time. Someone bumps him, he’s glaring. He is in someone’s face.

And he has the disciplinary record to prove it: 23 cautions in 110 matches, many of which he played in only briefly.

He was a substitute last night, when the team’s holding midfielder, Khamis Ismail, went off with an injury. That was why Yaser was in the game as it went into added time tied at 2-2.

I’m not sure I have a strong opinion on older-younger brother dynamics, but I suspect many would believe it was a sweet moment for Yaser when his rocket in the last minute of added time proved the decisive goal in a 3-2 Jazira win over their arch-rivals from just up the street, here in Abu Dhabi.

The National ran a photo of Yaser being pursued by jubilant teammates.

It was only his second goal in those 110 appearances in the league.

This time, the man of the moment … was little brother Yaser. And good for him.