The first national football team begins its campaign in the Gulf 24 championship, which is being held in Doha, against the Yemeni team at 10:30 UAE time, and the game comes within the group matches which also includes Iraq and Qatar.

The team is looking for its third title in the current edition of the Gulf Cup, having previously crowned the title for the first time in «Gulf 18» in the UAE in 2007, and repeated winning the title again in the 2013 edition in Bahrain with «Gulf 21».

The national team completed their preparations through an internal training camp in Dubai, where 28 players participated, before the coach chose the final list of 24 players who left with the team to Doha, yesterday morning, where Al-Abyad had his last training, through which the coaching staff finalized. On the match lineup.

The technical staff focused during the preparation period on the development of a technical strategy tight, which was able to compete in the tournament, which performs three games in the group stage in one week, where he begins to meet Yemen, then face Iraq on 29th, and play against the Qatari team on the second of Next December.

The technical staff was keen to hold group and individual meetings with the players, during which all the technical details, and the distribution of tasks, with emphasis on the need for commitment, performance and focus throughout the 90 minutes to ensure a strong start in the tournament, as the technical staff studied the competitor, to identify weaknesses Strength, and develop the appropriate plan to achieve the desired goal. Al-Ahly defender Mohamed Marzouk, Al Ain player Ahmed Berman after recovering from injury and Majid Sorour are back in the squad. For his part, the coach of the national team, the Dutch Van Marwijk, the readiness of Abyad to match Yemen, pointing out that all players are in full readiness for this important tournament.

"White will play for a win that will give us a strong boost to compete for one of the two qualifiers for the semi-finals," Marvic said at the press conference.

The final list includes 24 players: Ali Khasif, Khalid Issa, Mohammed Al Shamsi, Adel Al Hosani, Salem Rashid, Mohammed Marzouq, Khalifa Al Nubi, Yousef Jaber, Al Hassan Saleh, Hamdan Al Kamali, Mohammed Barghash, Ahmed Berman, Tariq Ahmed, Abdullah Ramadan, Ismail Al Hammadi, Bandar Al Ahbabi, Khalil Al Hammadi, Majid Sorour, Mohammed Al Attas, Ali Saleh, Jassim Yacoub, Khalfan Mubarak, Ahmed Khalil, Ali Mabkhout.

The delegation of the national team arrived in Doha, yesterday morning, headed by the Vice-President of the Football Association Abdullah Nasser Al-Junaibi, the Secretary-General of the Football Association Mohammed Abdullah Hazam Al-Dhaheri, along with members of the technical and administrative staff and players.

The tournament will be held from 26 November to 8 December, with the participation of eight teams divided into two groups, with the first and second of each group to qualify to the semi-finals, which play the system of defeated exit, to reach the final.

Kamali: Yemen game is important

National team defender Hamdan Al-Kamali described the match against Yemen as "the mission" as his first in the current version. He said in a press statement that «the victory will be a strong moral boost for white at the beginning of the tournament, and will strengthen the team's chances of reaching the semi-finals In his quest to crown the title ».

Kamali stressed the need to respect all competitors, because all the participating teams have the ambition and motivation to win the title, and have the capabilities that qualify them to continue the journey, expecting that the group stage will see strong competition between different teams, stressing that qualifying to the semi-finals will not be easy It will not be furnished with flowers.

Al-Kamali assured the UAE fans that preparations for the tournament were completed through the internal gathering held by Al-Abyad in Dubai.