Adopting 3 team groupings before the start of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers

Teams Committee holds its regular meeting No. 20. From the source

The FIFA Teams and Technical Affairs Committee has approved the program presented by the coach of the first national team, Van Marwijk, in preparation for the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup finals and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, which will start next March.

There will be three gatherings: the first from the second to the 12th of next January, the second from the sixth to 10 February, and the third from the 17th to the 30th of March.

Yesterday, the committee held its 20th periodic meeting at the Federation headquarters in Dubai, headed by the second vice-president of the federation and head of the committee, Youssef Al-Sahlawi, and in the presence of the members.

The committee decided to coordinate with the General Secretariat regarding the stadiums that will host the "white" matches in the qualifiers inside the country against Malaysia on March 25, Thailand and Vietnam on June 7 and 15.

With regard to the Olympic team (born 99 and above), the committee decided to submit a recommendation to the Federation’s Board of Directors to agree to participate in the next official tournaments during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, which are: the Gulf Cooperation Council Sports Games from the seventh to the 18th of March 2021 in the State of Kuwait. Olympic Games from August 30 to September 8, 2021, Asian U-23 Qualifiers from 20 to 31 October 2021, and Asian Games (born in 2001) from 20 to 28 November 2021 in China.

The committee discussed the programs for preparing the teams for the other age groups, namely: the junior team, born in 2004, preparing to participate in the AFC U-17 Cup finals scheduled in Bahrain next year to qualify for the Peruvian World Cup 2021, and the youth team born in 2003 in preparation for the Gulf Under-19 Championship for the period from the first. To December 10, 2021, the qualifiers for the AFC U-19 Cup in October 2022, the junior team, born in 2006, in preparation for the Gulf Cooperation Council Festival in Bahrain from February 1 to February 6, 2021, and the qualifiers for the AFC U-17 Cup in September 2022 Friendly matches for the 2001 youth teams and the 2004 junior teams were approved during January and February 2021, with national coach Salim Abdel Rahman, assistant coach of the first national team, to supervise the training of the youth team during this period.

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