The "white" rallied yesterday ... and athletes confirm: The players' choices are logical

70% of the youth are in the national team list ... and 8 clubs are represented

• A side of the national team training in the last camp.

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The national football team announced the final list of the team, which included 27 players for an indoor camp that began yesterday, as part of its preparations for the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.

The new list saw the exclusion of Sharjah's Shaheen Abdul Rahman and Shabab Al-Ahly Mohammed Jumaa, while Al-Jazira player Mohammed Al-Attas was included.

The list was chosen from eight clubs out of 14 in the league: Al-Jazira, Bani Yas, Sharjah, Shabab Al-Ahly, Al-Ain and Al-Nasr, Al-Wasl and Al-Wehda. Al-Jazira club won the largest share with eight players, while athletes confirmed that the most prominent element in this list included about 70% Of the young elements, what is considered a healthy phenomenon.

They told «Emirates Today»: «The decline in the level of a large team such as Al Ain negatively affects the national team, as it used to provide the team with more than seven players on the list, but currently it has only two players on the list, namely Bandar Al-Ahbabi and Kayo», and the current camp continues until On the 10th of this month, while the next gathering will be from March 17th to next March 30th, noting that the team will face Malaysia on the 25th of next March, and meet Indonesia on the 30th of the same month, while its journey in these qualifiers will be concluded by a meeting between Thailand and Vietnam, on the 7th and 15th Next June, respectively.

Al-Abyadh is currently ranked fourth with six points.

The former Olympic team coach, Abdul Majeed Al-Nimr, stressed that the new list is logical, as it included an elite of the most misleading players, pointing out that what distinguishes this list is the age ratio of players, as it included approximately 70% of the young elements, pointing out that even older players Those included in the list are the most prominent.

He added, "The decline in eye level will have a negative effect on the national team, as he used to support the national team in every list with five or seven players."

Abdul Majeed Al-Nimr wished that the officials and the sports street would support the national team, players and coach, and be patient with this group.

The former director of the football team at Al-Nasr Club, Khaled Obeid, considered that the new list included the elite elements and the most prominent players in the league, indicating that the list included mostly young elements, noting that, "Even those who reached the age of 30, they were chosen for being the most prominent." .

He added, "The coach does not choose a player for the national team just because he appears in one match only and then disappears. Rather, he looks far away at the player who stands out so that his presence is effective, and this is a healthy phenomenon."

Khaled Obaid said that the captain of Al-Wehda team, Ismail Matar, despite his age factor, is considered a positive case in Emirati football, and if the coach chose him, he would not be less than the rest of the elements.

He stressed that the situation Al Ain is currently experiencing through its decline in its level does not like the fans of Al Ain or the sports street, as it is going through the stage of the disappearance of stars, and that this naturally affects the situation negatively in the national team.

In turn, the former coach of the Emirates team, Tunisian Noureddine Al-Obeidi, confirmed that he had expected the presence of Al Dhafra goalkeeper Khaled Al-Senani, Bani Yas player Suhail Al-Noubi, and Sharjah player Khalid Bawazeer in the list, and the players of Al-Ahly youth, Abdulaziz Haykal and Hamdan Al-Kamali, have the ability On the statement of the national team, by virtue of their return to their technical level and international experience, stressing that Tigali and Cayo Canedo do not have the ability to benefit the team, considering that the process of change in the national team must pass through stages according to a clear strategy and a detailed program.

Al-Obeidi added, "The list needs to be reviewed, because not every player shines in one or two matches, and is called up, because the national team player must have presented good matches for several matches, and he has high competitiveness."

The team's list included: Fahd Al-Dhanhani and Hassan Al-Mahrami (Bani Yas), Adel Al Hosani and Majid Sorour (Sharjah), Bandar Al-Ahbabi and Kayo Kanido (Al Ain), Muhammad Al-Shamsi, Muhammad Saleh Barghash, Tahnoon Al-Zaabi, Khalil Al-Hammadi (Al-Wahda), Ali Khasif, Salem Rashid and Khalifa Al-Hammadi, Khalfan Mubarak, Muhammad Al-Attas, Abdullah Ramadan, Zayed Al-Ameri, Ali Mabkhout (Al-Jazeera), Mahmoud Khamis and Sebastian Tigali (Al-Nasr), Youssef Jaber, Majed Hassan, Walid Abbas, Saeed Ahmed (Youth Al-Ahly), and Fabio de Lima, Ali Saleh and Ali Salmine (Al Wasl).

• The new list saw the exclusion of Sharjah and Shabab Al-Ahly players, Shaheen Abdul Rahman and Muhammad Jumaa, and included Al-Jazira player Muhammad Al-Attas.

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