The Arabs have no choice but to weave these threads of hope in search of an achievement that will be immortalized in history, as everyone stands ready for the start of the World Cup hosted by Qatar, from Doha to the Arabs for the whole world, and we have no choice but to think about Radwa Ashour’s theory, which assures us that “there is another possibility to crown our endeavor without Defeat, as long as we decide that we will not die before we try to live!"
Sadness hangs over Egypt and Algeria, and anticipation in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Tunisia and Morocco, and everyone in 22 Arab countries turned them around with one dream, everyone is behind someone who represents the Arabs in order to present an exceptional version that mimics or surpasses what Saudi Arabia presented in 1986, Morocco in the 1998 version, and Algeria in the 2014 World Cup. Where the trio presented the most prominent achievements of the Arabs in the World Cup, bypassing the first round and qualifying for the round of 16 (1).
Coinciding with the start of the World Cup journey in Qatar, we decided in
the field
of going on a journey with a number of journalists, content makers and Arab fans in order to stand on the atmosphere and ambitions, as well as research the strengths of the four teams that will represent the Arabs in the World Cup 2022, in the hope that one of the Arab teams will lead us. To an unprecedented World Cup achievement.
Qatar.. How to prepare a generation from childhood to the dream of the World Cup?
(Reuters)
Everyone knows how Qatar began to prepare itself to host the World Cup since winning the rights to organize it more than 12 years ago, and as the country prepared from A to Z, there was a project that matured over the years, took shape and seemed clearer as time passed, led by a generation of Aspire Academy children , one of the most famous academies in the world today, accompanied by the La Masia Academy in Barcelona, and a Spanish coach who came from La Masia itself.
Regarding Al-Annabi, the journalist at Sports 360 and interested in Arab football affairs, Omar Abdel Nasser, believes that the strength of the current generation of the Qatar national team is represented in the long-term project, as they are characterized by strong interdependence due to their being children of Aspire Academy since their childhood, and their coach Felix Sanchez has been working with them since they were children for the academy.
Felix, who had experience in Barcelona via La Masia, before traveling to Qatar and settling in Aspire, and starting the project to prepare Al-Annabi for the 2022 World Cup (2).
Qatar plays in a group that includes Ecuador, the Netherlands and Senegal, each of whom represents a form of football, so it was important to go through many experiences with different football schools, which strengthens the chances of the Qatari team, according to Abdel Nasser, who believes that the experience of playing in the Copa America and the European qualifiers For the World Cup and the Gold Cup, it gave Al-Annabi experience and practice to play their matches against the three teams in their group (3).
In addition, Omar said that the Arab Championship and the 2019 AFC Asian Nations Cup were the scene of a promising Qatari performance, and that it is a matter for those in charge of football in Qatar to always keep the first-row teams in mind whenever they want to play a friendly match, in addition to the strong confrontations that they fought in the three tournaments. aforementioned (4).
Accordingly, Omar Abdel Nasser nominates the Qatari national team to cross from his group, despite its difficulty, taking advantage of the factors of the land, the audience, and the enthusiasm of the host country to present an exceptional version, armed with the 3/5/2 method that Sanchez prefers, and with names led by Abdul Karim Hassan, the best player in Asia, And captain Hassan Al-Haidous, and Khokhi Bou Allam, who was an attacker before Felix Sanchez completely changed the features of his career by turning him into a defender, in addition to the duo of Al-Moez Ali and Akram Afif in the offensive line.
Saudi Arabia.. a bet on expertise and experience
The Saudi green’s journey will be difficult in a group that includes Argentina, Mexico and Poland, but despite this, the Saudi Professional League journalist Hamza Al-Ghamdi is betting on the experience and experience of his country’s national team in the World Cup, as he participated in 5 past versions of the World Cup, so the Saudi national team is the most participating Arab team in World Cup matches, and its players are the most registered in Arab matches (5).
From Al-Ghamdi's point of view, Al-Akhdar will bet on the experience of its players among the teams of different age groups, led by a coach who can bring out the best in any team, such as Hervé Renard.
In this version of the World Cup, the Saudi national team has many players who participated in the World Cups for the under-23 age group, as those who played in previous World Cups in different age groups constituted 89% of the squad (6), (7).
Luxurious befits luxury
Here the Saudi national team will camp in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 🇸🇦📍@SaudiNT pic.twitter.com/17LSmRwi9r
- FIFA World Cup 🏆 (@fifaworldcup_ar) November 16, 2022
Tunisia.. the dark side
The hope for the fans of the Green Eagles will not be similar to the rest of the Arabs, as the Tunisian street is going through a state of anger before the World Cup for many reasons, the sum of which will lead to a decline in the degree of ambition among the majority of the Tunisian people, in a difficult group that includes world champions France, accompanied by Denmark and Australia (8 ).
According to Tunisian content creator Bahaa Eddin Kammoun, the Eagles will start the World Cup in the worst possible climate, and the reason is the team's roster.
And the conversation here does not revolve around the convictions of a coach or some names whose competence is questionable, but rather about the scenes that are being hatched and the reaction of the street after it was leaked, on top of which is the crisis between the President of the Football Association and the government, and some corruption files that began to be leaked recently, in addition to the successive warnings and threats of FIFA. If politics interferes with sports (9).
Kammoun revealed that the beginning was on November 4, after the Tunisian World Cup squad was leaked.
The crisis, in his opinion, lies in two points, the first of which is the leakage, and the second is the list itself;
Where it witnessed the presence of 4 goalkeepers, and the exclusion of essential elements and replacing them with strange names that do not explain their existence, according to his point of view.
According to Bahaa El-Din, the street uprising reached its climax, and the matter went beyond that to reach public objection by some clubs, the first of which was the Esperance Club.
After that, days pass and the street awaits the final list, until the thirteenth of the same month, a second leak that updates the final list 24 hours before its issuance;
Which raises many doubts, according to his opinion, that it may be intended with the aim of feeling the pulse of the street.
As in the first leak, the street was not satisfied.
What is new here is the recall of Dylan Brown after it was decided to exclude him, but at whose expense?
At the expense of a guard of the four?
No, at the expense of the fourth defender?
No, but it came at the expense of Bilal Al-Aifa, one of the most important elements in the last year (10).
When asked about the scenes, Kammoun relied on the narration of one of the largest Tunisian journalists, Walid Garfala, who revealed that at first it was decided to exclude Dylan Brown in order to summon two guards and a defender appointed by the president of the federation, with the aim of enabling their clubs to award the World Cup.
The two invited goalkeepers were at the expense of another goalkeeper, whose club showed all support for him, and to satisfy this club, a defender belonging to him was summoned.
Here who is the victim?
Dylan Brun.
At that time, two of the most important players of the national team appeared to stipulate his presence in the list, and the coach submits to them, and the search for a different victim begins, so it was decided one day before announcing the list that it be Bilal Al-Aifa, and for the second time this was met with great objection from the entire sports street, and for the second time he succumbed The coach decided to choose another victim, so the choice fell on Saad Baqir, who had received the invitation before (11).
In conclusion, the young content maker confirmed that what was mentioned was one point in the sea of internal crises, preferring to confront himself with the truth rather than trying to beautify the image, but despite all this, as a Tunisian fan and citizen before anything else, he did not hide that he would not give up hope. Those that make him wish himself that the first round will end with the achievement of the Carthage Eagles by qualifying for the round of 16 for the first time in the country's history.
"All the hopes of the Arabs are pinned on the Moroccan national team"
This is the word with which the Egyptian TV presenter, Omar Imad, summed up his journey with the Atlas Lions, and the hopes of the Arabs pinned on them.
Omar has a unique story. Despite being Egyptian, he is a true fan of the Moroccan national team, so that when the African Cup of Nations was held in Egypt in 2019, he bought tickets for all the Atlas Lions matches, and attended them with support from the Moroccan fans shoulder to shoulder (12).
At the beginning of his speech, Omar raised the ceiling of ambitions, stressing that the Moroccan national team must achieve positive results, because of the current names it possesses, adding that the Moroccan national team players are much better than the players of Croatia and Canada as names at the present time, so their chance to rise to the second round remains very large. More than any other Arab team.
Imad adds that the Moroccan national team has 20 professional players in European leagues, which is the largest number among the Arab teams participating in the World Cup, and due to their strong adhesion to the strong European leagues, they succeeded in possessing sufficient experience to start the journey, and he asked: “How can you be afraid when you have one of the best 10 goalkeepers In the world, who is Yassin Bono?! How do you feel anxious when you have the best former Dutch league player Hakim Ziyech?! How do you not feel hope when you have the best right-back in the world currently, Ashraf Hakimi?!
The Egyptian journalist, a fan of the Atlas Lions, bet on the coach, "Walid Al-Rakraki", the coach who won the African Champions League recently, and who has many achievements and local and continental championships, and begins a new journey in leading the national team, which is currently ranked No. Arranging by achieving good results that the Moroccan street, and even the entire Arab people, are pleased with (13).
Finally, if you look at the eyes of passers-by in the Moroccan street and their enthusiasm, you will see nothing but hope for a great achievement worthy of the Atlas Lions and their reputation.
In a World Cup that is being held on Arab soil for the first time in history, what exceptional event is that that will make everyone happy, and compensate "Omar" for the absence of his country's national team from the world's wedding like that?
Now is the time to start, and the Arabs have no choice but to weave these threads of hope in search of an achievement that will be immortalized in history, as everyone stands ready for the start of the World Cup hosted by Qatar, from Doha to the Arabs for the whole world, and we have no choice but to think about Radwa Ashour's theory, which assures us that "there is Another possibility to crown our quest without defeat, as long as we decide that we will not die before we try to live!” (14).
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Sources:
1 - The password for the first time .. the best participation of the Arabs in the World Cup!
- FIFA Plus
2 - Qatar national team reaps the fruits of the "Aspire" project
3 – The schedule of matches and the arrangement of the 2022 World Cup groups, and the transmission channels
4 - Qatar's participation in the Copa America, the Gold Cup, and the European qualifiers for the World Cup
5- The schedule of matches and the ranking of the Saudi national team group in the 2022 World Cup
6- The Arabs in the World Cup... Details of Saudi Arabia's project towards the World Cup in order to reach the elimination rounds
7 – Al-Dosari is on a date with writing more history – FIFA Plus
8- The schedule of matches and the ranking of the Tunisian national team group in the 2022 World Cup
9 – Tunisia's list for the 2022 World Cup was leaked.. Maaloul and Jaziri were summoned, and Mathlouthi was absent
10- Tunisia's squad for the 2022 Qatar World Cup
11- What is the opinion of the veteran Tunisian journalist, Walid Garfala, behind the scenes before Tunisia's participation in the World Cup?
12 - An Egyptian fan who is obsessed with the Moroccan national team.. He memorizes his squad, wears his shirt, and buys all the tickets for his matches..!
13 - Five advantages that make Walid Regragui an ideal coach for the Morocco national team - FIFA Plus
14 - There is another possibility for our effort to be crowned without defeat - Radwa Ashour