"Al-Abyad" today inaugurates the era of Aruaparina
28 players are in the national team's final list in preparation for Iraq... and 13 are out of the accounts
The team is in third place with 9 points.
From the source
Today, the first football team will inaugurate its gathering at the sub-field of Al-Nasr Club in Dubai, in preparation for traveling to Iraq on the 22nd of this month, to face the Iraqi team, scheduled for the 24th of the same month, in the ninth and penultimate round in the decisive round of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.
The national team’s gathering will witness the first appearance of the new Argentine coach Rodolfo Arubarina, who was contracted last February, to succeed the former Dutch coach Marvik, with a contract that extends until the 2023 Asian Cup, while the technical staff of the team announced the final list that included 28 players out of 41 had They are included in the expanded list.
The list included goalkeepers: Khaled Issa, Muhammad Al Shamsi and Majid Nasser, and among the players: Bandar Al Ahbabi, Mahmoud Khamis, Abdulaziz Heikal, Muhammad Marzouk, Walid Abbas, Khalifa Al Hammadi, Muhammad Al Attas, Khaled Al Hashemi, Shaheen Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Al Balushi, Tahnoun Al Zaabi, Ismail Matar Abdullah Al-Naqbi, Majed Hassan, Abdullah Ramadan, Ali Salmin, Majed Rashid, Cayo Canedo, Khalil Ibrahim, Hareb Abdullah, Yahya Al-Ghasani, Ali Mabkhout, Ali Saleh, Tigali, Sultan Adel.
Thirteen players were excluded from the final squad list, and they are: Ali Khaseef, Adel Al Hosani, Muhammad Barghash, Ahmed Jamil, Abdullah Idris, Khaled Al Dhanhani, Ahmed Berman, Bilal Youssef, Hussein Mahdi, Muhammad Juma Eid, Zayed Al Ameri, Yahya Nader and Khaled Bawazeer.
According to the program presented by the technical staff, the team will train in the morning and evening until the time to travel to Iraq, and coach Arruabarina will be satisfied with daily training without having any friendly experience before facing Iraq.
The national team occupies third place with nine points in the group led by the Iranian team with 22 points, South Korea is in second place with 20 points, and Lebanon comes fourth with six points, then Iraq is fifth with five points, and Syria is in the last place with only two points .
It is expected that the technical staff will focus during the upcoming training on the readiness of the players from the technical and physical aspects, as well as psychological matters, especially that the coach Arruabarina and the players are aware of the importance of this match and the need to win it and collect its points, as the result of the match will determine the fate of the team in these qualifiers, in order to compete for the The qualification card for the World Cup is through the third place gate. If the team qualified as the third in the first group, the team will meet the third placed from the second group.
The return of some players who were absent from the team in the last period, such as striker Ali Mabkhout, represents a great addition to the team in the crucial matches of Iraq and South Korea.
It was clear from the final list that was chosen that coach Arruabarina focuses on the same elements and faces that were relied on by the former Dutch coach Marvik, given the lack of time for the new coach, Arruabarina, to make any new changes in the team, given the approaching date of the two Iraq matches. and South Korea.
Sharjah and Baniyas players miss the kickoff
It was decided that the players of Sharjah and Bani Yas will join the national team after they finished participating with their two teams in the qualifying round for the AFC Champions League group stage. Sharjah will face the Iraqi Al-Zawra team, while Bani Yas will meet the Uzbek team Nasaf tomorrow (Tuesday).
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