Analysts stress that Marvik did not settle for 3 eyes to equip them ... and confirm:

5 guards on the squad is a big question mark

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Sports analysts confirmed that there is a big question mark revolving around the selection of five goalkeepers by the technical staff of the national football team, in the new expanded list as part of the team's preparations for the remaining matches in the double qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, within the Group G matches hosted by the country. Next June, with the grouping system, pointing out that the choice of so many goalkeepers is evidence that coach Marvik has not yet settled on the goalkeeper.

They told "Emirates Today": "Even if the number in the final list was reduced to two or three goalkeepers, it was necessary to avoid choosing this large number of goalkeepers, until the focus is on specific goalkeepers to equip them."

The expanded list included 29 players, including five goalkeepers: Ali Khasif, Khaled Issa, Adel Al Hosani, Mohammed Al Shamsi and Fahad Al Dhanhani.

The national team will play a friendly match against its Indian counterpart on the 29th of this month, bearing in mind that the national team will enter a training camp internally from tomorrow.

Former international player in the national team, Hossein Ghuloum, said that he was surprised that the coach of the national team included five guards at once, indicating that even if the number was included in the final list, it was necessary to choose from the start two or three guards only, which is the norm.

Hussein Ghuloom added: “We do not know the true significance of the coach in choosing a large number of goalkeepers, and the national team has a camp for less than 10 days during which it will play one friendly match, so why are five guards selected, and even if they are reduced, those present will not participate in all of them. Expected friendly experience ».

Hussein Ghuloom asked: “Why did the coaching staff choose to play friendly with the Indian national team, despite the fact that it is less technical than the national team? The Indian team is the one who will benefit from such an experience and not the national team .. Is the point of playing against the Indian team on the basis that His school is similar to the teams that the national team will play, such as Thailand and Vietnam, or what?

Hussein Ghuloum stressed that he had hoped that the national team would play friendly matches with strong teams, noting that when he was an international player, the national team used to fight friendlies with strong teams in order to benefit from friction.

For his part, a former member of the Football Association Board of Directors, Dr. Salim Al Shamsi, said that it is surprising that the team's list includes a large number of guards, while the number of goalkeepers should have been limited to only three instead of five, and two other players, not goalkeepers, were given a chance. Being on the elected list.

He added that "choosing the large number of goalkeepers means that the coach has not yet settled on certain goalkeepers. It also means that the squad is unstable and this sounds the alarm for the team," considering that "the opportunity is difficult, but hope is there."

Al-Shamsi stressed the importance of choosing the technical staff of the national team for strong and high-tech teams to play friendly matches against them, instead of playing friendly against weak teams so that the team would benefit technically from such experiences, since playing against lesser teams than the national team does not benefit the team technically.

In turn, a member of the Football Association's Competitions Committee, Khaled Awad, said that coach Marvik's policy with the national team cannot be judged currently by the fact that the team is in a preparatory stage for the expected benefits, but despite this, there is a big question mark regarding the selection of five goalkeepers on the list. .

With regard to the national team playing friendly matches with teams of lesser quality, such as its upcoming match against India, he said: “Playing friendly with a lower level team such as the Indian national team and others is not a measure of the team’s level as much as it is just a friendly test aimed at giving young players the opportunity to play comfortably. In order to achieve the desired goal, which is to choose the appropriate formation for the official matches.

He added, "Apart from choosing this large number of goalkeepers, the rest of the team’s matters are good, and I hope that the national team will achieve the ambitions and hopes placed on it, through its upcoming appearance in the World Cup qualifiers."

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