Renard excludes two stars from the list of the Saudi national team .. Know the reason
The French coach for the Saudi national football team, Herve Renard, on Thursday excluded the injured duo Salman Al-Faraj and goalkeeper Zaid Al-Bawardi from the squad to face Oman and Japan in the seventh and eighth rounds of the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
And the Saudi team published on its Twitter page a statement in which it confirmed that “the exclusion of the two players comes after the medical staff reviewed the report sent by the medical staff of their clubs regarding their injuries, and accordingly a medical examination was conducted for them by the team’s medical staff, and it was confirmed that they were not ready. ".
He added, "Coach Herve Renard called Abdullah Al-Khaibri and Amin Bukhari in their place to join the national team."
On the 27th of this month, Al-Akhdar will host the Oman national team at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, before it will be a guest of the Japanese national team on February 1st at Saitama Stadium in Tokyo.
The Saudi team leads its second group in the Asian qualifiers and is close to qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar, after winning 16 points from six matches (five wins and a draw), 4 points ahead of the second Japan (12 points), while Australia is third with 11 points.
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