Learn about the reaction of Emirati athletes after the draw for the final round of the World Cup qualifiers

Athletes described the UAE national football team, which included South Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as comfortable, but not easy, after the draw for the final round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, today in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur through the system. Remote video calling. In their conversation with "Emirates Al-Youm", they stressed that if the team wants to qualify, it needs to prepare well, play strong friendly matches and outperform its competitors in this group, especially South Korea and Iran, knowing that the UAE team begins its career in these qualifiers by playing outside its home by meeting Lebanon. On the second of next September.

The athletes said that there was great satisfaction for the UAE team, given that the draw spared him from playing in the second group, which included strong teams such as Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia.

The former Olympic coach, Abdul Majeed Al-Nimr, described the draw as comfortable, stressing that if the team wants to qualify for the finals, it is required to prepare well from all sides, and that the team must outperform South Korea and Iran, as they are the strongest competitors in this group.

Al-Nimr added: There is satisfaction in this draw because the team, with the exception of the teams of South Korea and Iran, is better in terms of technical level than many of the teams in this group, and with the exception of South Korea, which is located in East Asia, the rest of the other teams in the group are from West Asia, which facilitates It has a lot in terms of traveling long hours and time difference.

In turn, the former director of the Al-Nasr football team, Khaled Obaid, confirmed that the Al-Abyad group is balanced, compared to the first group, which he described as Hadidiya, considering that the group is not easy, but with good preparation and a good mental presence of the players, the team can have a word in its group.

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