Learn about the first extended roster for the national team under the leadership of coach Arruabarina

The National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee of the Football Association has approved the expanded list chosen by the national team’s technical staff, led by Argentine coach Arruabarina, in preparation for the Iraq and South Korea matches in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

The expanded list included 41 players: (goalkeepers): Khaled Issa, Mohammed Al Shamsi, Majed Nasser, Ali Khaseef and Adel Al Hosani.

For the defense: Bandar Al Ahbabi, Mahmoud Khamis, Muhammad Barghash, Ahmed Jamil, Abdulaziz Heikal, Muhammad Marzouk, Walid Abbas, Khalifa Al Hammadi, Muhammad Al Attas, Abdullah Idris, Khaled Al Hashemi, Khaled Al Dhanhani and Shaheen Abdul Rahman.

For the middle: Yahya Nader, Ahmed Barman, Muhammad Al Balushi, Tahnoun Al Zaabi, Ismail Matar, Abdullah Al Naqbi, Majed Hassan, Abdullah Ramadan, Ali Salmin, Majed Rashid, Bilal Youssef and Hussein Mahdi.

For the attack: Cayo Canedo, Khalil Ibrahim, Hareb Abdullah, Muhammad Juma, Yahya Al Ghassani, Ali Mabkhout, Zayed Al Ameri, Ali Saleh, Khaled Bawazeer, Tigali and Sultan Adel.


The final list will be announced after the end of the 19th round of the ADNOC Professional League, which concludes next Saturday, with the team's gathering starting on the 14th of this month, while the players of Sharjah and Bani Yas will join the team after the end of their Asian participation.

The team is training in the sub-field of Al-Nasr Club, until the date of travel to the 22nd of this month.

This came during the committee’s meeting yesterday at the headquarters of the federation headed by Hamid Al Tayer, member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Committee, and in the presence of Abdullah Salem bin Touq, Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Tunaiji and Matar Mahmoud Al Hosani, members of the Committee, Rashid Amer Al Badawi, Director of the National Teams Department, and Hassan Fahd, Head of the National Team Support Department.

The committee reviewed the report of the visit by Yasser Salem, the national team manager, and Salim Abdul Rahman, the assistant coach, to the capital, Baghdad, which included a field visit to the residence and the match stadium, and holding coordination meetings with officials of the Iraqi Football Association, where it was emphasized that all the special needs of the mission were provided in coordination with the Secretariat. General of the Federation.

The committee discussed the preparations for the international friendly tournament for U-23 teams, which is organized by the Football Association in cooperation with IAST SPORTS Company for the period from 20 to 29 March, with the participation of 10 teams: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Japan, China, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Thailand and Croatia, which It comes as part of the teams' preparations to participate in the AFC U-23 Cup finals scheduled in Uzbekistan next June, while the list of players and the team's program to participate in this tournament has been approved, in addition to the approval of participation in the Asian Games during the period from 10 to 25 September 2022 in Hangzhou, the Chinese Republic And the West Asian U-23 Championship for the period from 3 to 18 November 2022.

It also reviewed the programs for preparing youth and youth teams in preparation for the upcoming football tournaments, and a report on the courses and workshops organized by the technical administration of the federation in coordination with the International and Asian Football Federations.

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