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Preparation of the national team

Hussein Al Shaibani

June 28, 2022

Preparing the national team for competition at the continental level and the upcoming Gulf Championship, West Asian Championship and 2023 Asian Cup;

It requires the development of a clear strategy to implement the future plans of the Emirates football, and the quality of friendly matches must be at a high level, and we come out of the old robes with low-level matches and lower-ranked teams than our national team.

It is time to change the old thought into a developed one and to play matches with teams ranked higher than ours. We instill confidence and a culture of confrontation and remove fear from the minds and souls of our players with high-level confrontations against strong and world-ranked teams, especially after the national team appeared at a distinguished level in the qualifying supplement for the 2022 World Cup. Against Australia, who qualified for the 2022 World Cup, which made the German federation officials request a friendly match against the Emirates national team before the World Cup in Qatar.We hope that the officials in the Football Association in the Emirates agree to the request of the German Football Association and play a friendly match that is beneficial for our team, and not be afraid of confrontation or the outcome. Facing players with a high level of professional thought, and contact with diverse and advanced football schools to enhance the motivation of the players to provide the best technical levels through the challenge in the face of strong and ranked teams globally, and the goal of meeting strong teams is to raise the level of competition and excitement and instill a culture of strong confrontation in our players against better teams From us in terms of classification, and removing the fear of strong confrontations so that the Emirati football reaps the fruits of proper planning in the future thanks to the friction with the strongest international teams, which means adding technical and building a personality to the international playerThe Emirati team can be adapted to serve the goals of the first national team, and these confrontations give the team indications and illuminations about the team’s readiness to compete in the upcoming competitions, achieve championships, and set a program for strong friendly matches similar to the teams of Japan and South Korea.

We hope that officials in the Football Association develop a similar strategy for all the teams of the age groups in the quality of confrontations and matches with ranked and strong teams to instill confidence and confrontation and remove fear in strong confrontations while they are at this age stage so that we do not face difficulties in the future when facing strong teams.

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It is time to change the old thought into a developed one and to play matches with teams ranked higher than ours.