Sports opinion

Team strategy

Hussein Al-Shaibani

November 16, 2020

Preparing the national team to compete at the continental level requires the development of a clear-cut strategy to implement the future plans of Emirates football.

The quality of friendly matches must be similar to the teams of the national team in the first round of qualifiers, and how many friendly matches are they supposed to play before the first phase of the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup 2023?

This question is directed to the FIFA National Team Committee, in coordination and consultation with the coach of the national team, Bento, in setting up the preparation program for the pre-first phase of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Choosing the quality of friendly matches and meeting strong teams in the preparation stage is a positive point for preparing the national team well, and it promotes The motivation of the players to provide the best technical levels by challenging the strong and world-ranked teams.

The aim of meeting strong teams is to raise the level of competition and excitement and to instill a culture of strong confrontation in our team players against teams better than us in terms of classification, and to remove the fear of strong confrontations so that the Emirati football reaps the fruits of proper planning in the future, thanks to contact with the strongest global teams, which means an addition of technicality And building a personality for the international player that can be recruited to serve the goals of the first national team, provided that these matches will be increased according to need and according to the established plans, as they will be held with different football schools, whether Asian, African or European, and ending with Latin schools.

Contact with these different schools is the way to develop the capabilities of any team who wishes to have distinguished elements in all lines.

The (strong friendly) matches provide indications and highlights of the strength and readiness of the national team before the official matches from the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.

Qualifying for the 2022 World Cup and 2023 AFC Asian Cup 2023 is through continuous work and continuous planning, setting scientific plans and interim goals, and dealing with each goal separately.

• Strong friendly matches give indications about the readiness of the national team before the official matches.

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