The first national football team will kick off a new phase of its career by returning to the Abu Dhabi Indoor Rally, which continues until 26 January, the first white gathering after its recent participation in the 2019 Asian Cup which came out of the competition in the first round. The top of which is the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the Asian Cup 2023, which will be drawn on April 17 at AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
It was clear that Al-Obeid would start a new era with new faces after the officially announced list of 15 key players they had previously played with in the Asian Cup, Fares Jumaa, Ismail Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed, Aamer Abdelrahman and Mohamed Abdel Rahman Ali Khasif, Khalifa al-Hammadi, Walid Abbas, Majed Hassan, Isma'il al-Hammadi, Ahmad Khalil, Khalifa Mubarak, Mohammed Hassan al-Shamsi, Ismail Matar and Khamis Ismail.
These elements, who were absent from the White for the first time played a large role in the course of the team for many years, but had to be changed, especially in the wake of the widespread criticism of the team after his failure in the Asian Cup despite the fact that the UAE sports were counting on him a lot An unprecedented achievement in the Asian Cup, especially since the tournament was held in the UAE.
The new list has been kept on the list of only eight players from the list that competed in the last Asian Cup are: goalkeeper Khaled Issa, Hassan Saleh, Saif Rashed and Riann Salim and Ali Salmin and Ali Mbkut and Bandar Ahbabi and Khalafan Mubarak.
During the camp, the team will play two friendly matches against Saudi Arabia 21 at the Al Nahyan Stadium at Al Wahda Club and the second on 26 of the same month against the Syrian team at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium at Al Jazira Club.
The team will be led by national coach Salim Abdelrahman, who served as assistant to former Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni, until the new coach, who was announced by the Football Association, will be officially unveiled early next week to lead Al-Bayyad in the new stage.
The new elements selected in the new list face a great challenge with Al-White to prove their presence and form a real addition to the team in their next campaign, especially after these elements have emerged well with their teams in the Gulf Arab League in the past period, including Sharjah goalkeeper Adel Al Hosani Shaheen Abdul Rahman, Abdullah Ghanem, Mubarak Saeed, Hasan Al Mahrami, Mohammed Ibrahim, Suhail Al Nubi, Salem Rashed, Abdullah Al Naqbi and Suhail Al Mansouri.
The new list included 25 players: Khalid Issa, Bandar Al Ahbabi, Ahmed Berman, Ryan Wids (Al Ain) Adel Al Hosani, Shaheen Abdulrahman, Abdullah Ghanem, Hassan Saleh, Saif Rashed (Sharjah) Mubarak Saeed, Mohammed Ibrahim Srouash, Habib Al Fardan Al-Akbari, Salim Saleh (Al-Nasr) Fahd Al-Dhahnani, Hassan Al-Mahrami, Suhail Al Nubi (Bani Yas) Salem Rashed, Khalfan Mubarak, Ali Mabkhout
White kept only 8 players from the 2019 Asian Cup list.
Salim Abdel Rahman will lead the team until the unveiling of the new coach.