Today, Thursday, the national football team inaugurated its foreign camp, currently located in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, as part of its preparations for the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and 2023 AFC Asian Cup. The team will host its Malaysian counterpart on the eighth of next October, and then leave for Jakarta to face the Indonesia team. On the 13th of the same month, while the Thailand national team meets on November 12th and Vietnam on the 17th of the same month in the Emirates.
The Football Association said in a press statement that the national team mission arrived in the capital, Belgrade, Thursday morning, on a private plane, as it included members of the technical and administrative staff and 28 players: Khaled Issa, Ali Khasif, Muhammad Al Shamsi, Khaled Al Senani, Muhammad Barghash, Abdulaziz Heikal Salem Rashid, Yousef Jaber, Khalifa Al Hammadi, Faris Juma, Muhammad Ahmed, Walid Abbas, Ismail Ahmed, Majed Hassan, Tariq Ahmed, Khamis Ismail, Abdullah Ramadan, Ahmed Barman, Fabio de Lima, Bandar Al Ahbabi, Ali Saleh, Khaled Bawazeer, Khalil Ibrahim, Omar Abdel Rahman, Khalfan Mubarak, Ali Mabkhout, Sebastian Tigali, Ahmed Khalil.
The team had set up an indoor camp in Al Ain for 12 days, during which the technical staff focused on the physical side in order to raise the fitness rate for the players after a period of interruption of football activity due to the Corona pandemic.
The Football Association was keen to end all procedures for the travel of the mission from an early date in accordance with the procedures followed, in coordination with the competent authorities in the state, while all members of the team and players underwent Corona tests to ensure their safety as well as preparing the residence in Belgrade in accordance with the highest health and safety standards while providing all The special needs of the personnel of the delegation, including sterilizers, face masks and gloves, with full commitment to physical distance during meals and meetings.
The technical staff set an integrated program for the Serbian camp, which will continue until the twenty-third of this month, to include the performance of morning and evening training, theoretical and video lectures, as well as a number of friendly experiences with Serbian clubs.
The team has a continuous and direct follow-up by Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al-Nuaimi, President of the Football Association, members of the Board of Directors and the National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee headed by the second deputy of the President of the Football Association, Yusuf Hussein Al-Sahlawi, who was present in the penultimate session at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium and met members of the technical and administrative staff and players and spoke With them about the importance of the stage and the necessity of making the most of training sessions, praising the general atmosphere surrounding the team and the enthusiasm and seriousness of the players.