Athletes demanded good preparation after revealing the opponents of "Al-Abyad" .. and confirm:

The team's group in the World Cup qualifiers is comfortable and balanced..not easy

• The team reached the final round of qualifiers by leading the seventh group.

  Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

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The draw for the final round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which was held yesterday morning in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, through the remote visual communication system, the national team in a first group described as balanced, and includes the teams of South Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, while The second group included Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, China, Oman and Vietnam.

Athletes, speaking to "Emirates Today", expressed their satisfaction with the draw, but warned against making its teams easy, and called for strong preparation and dealing with all the seriousness required to achieve the dream of ascending to the World Cup for the second time in the history of Emirates football.

The team will start its campaign in this qualifier away from home against Lebanon on the second of next September.

The athletes said that the group is comfortable and balanced, but on the other hand, it is not easy, and that if the team wants to qualify for the finals, it needs good preparation and preparation for these confrontations, noting that with the exception of South Korea and Iran, Al-Abyad technically excels over the rest of the other teams.

In the second round, Al-Abyad will face the Syrian national team at home on September 7, then away to Iran on October 7, with Iraq on October 12, then at home with South Korea on November 11, then Lebanon will receive Lebanon on the 16th of the same month, then go out to meet Syria next January 27 After that, he will meet in the Emirates with Iran on the first of February and with Iraq on the 24th of March, and he concludes his career by playing abroad with South Korea on the 29th of March.

The national team qualified well to the final round of the qualifiers after topping Group G with 18 points.

The final qualifiers consist of two groups, with the leaders and runners-up from each group qualifying directly, while the two third-placed teams play a playoff that qualifies one of them to go to another playoff with the fourth-ranked CONCACAF teams to decide qualification for the World Cup.

The teams participating in the final round were classified according to the latest special classification issued by the International Football Association, as the first level included Japan and Iran, the second level included Australia and South Korea, the third level included Saudi Arabia and the UAE, while the fourth level included Iraq and China, and the fifth level included Oman Syria, the sixth, Vietnam and Lebanon.

The former Olympic team 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, stressing that “the team must also, if it wants to qualify, outperform South Korea and Iran, as they are its strongest competitors in the field.” this group".

Al-Nimr added: There is satisfaction in the team's group, since with the exception of South Korea and Iran, it is technically better than many of the teams in its 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.

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.

A member of the board of directors of the football company in Al-Nasr Club, former international player Abdul Rahman Muhammad, said that the team’s group is balanced, stressing that the next stage in the team’s march requires good preparation and strong friendly matches, calling on everyone from clubs, sports media and the public to support the team and stand behind it in the stage To reach the desired goal, which is to qualify for the World Cup.

Abdul Rahman Muhammad stressed the importance of the team taking advantage of the first four matches and getting the full mark of points at the beginning of its career in these qualifiers.

Al-Sahlawi: The team is able to overcome challenges

The Second Vice President of the Football Association, Head of the National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee, Youssef Al-Sahlawi, said that "the team's group in the draw for the decisive round of the World Cup qualifiers is balanced."

He continued in a press statement, "I am confident in Al-Abyad's ability to confront and overcome challenges with courage," praising at the same time the efficiency of the technical and administrative staff and the players' talents and experiences.

Al-Sahlawi confirmed that “the last football season was technically strong, so it had clear positive effects on the performance of the international players who represented Al-Abyad in the Group G qualifiers, and we hope that this technical development will continue in the upcoming local competitions because it is closely related to Al-Abyad’s performance,” noting that The national team is everyone's responsibility, and it is necessary to provide the right environment for the whites to prepare strongly for the finals qualifiers.

The first group

• UAE

• Iraq

• Iran

• South Korea

• Lebanon

• Syrian

the second group

• Saudi

• China

• Japan

• Oman

• Australia

• Vietnam

The mechanism for qualifying in the final qualifiers:

■ Divide the teams into two groups.

■ The leader of each group and the runner-up qualifies directly.

■ Supplement for the third place in the two groups.

■ The fifth "Asia" to enter a qualifying play-off directly for the World Cup with the fourth "CONCACAF".

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