They demanded that 15 to 21 days be provided to prepare the "white" to meet Australia
Athletes: The national team is a priority... and it deserves a sufficient preparation period for the "World Cup Supplement"
The team seeks to complete the joy of winning the Asian and international supplement to decide the 2022 World Cup ticket. Photo: Osama Abu Ghanem
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Athletes said that the priority in the next stage should be for the national football team, and that all efforts should be united to support it and harness all the capabilities that enable it to prepare well for its upcoming match against Australia, on the seventh of next June, in Qatar, within the Asian Cup qualifying supplement. The 2022 World Cup, and in the event of victory, the international play-off against Peru will take place on June 13.
They told "Emirates Today" that the team needs a preparation period of 15 to 21 days, and a friendly match to test its readiness well before the upcoming meeting.
They stressed the need for the national team players to trust their technical abilities and capabilities, and to play the Australia match in the same spirit in which they played the last South Korea match, during which they won with a clean goal, which led the team to the Asian playoff.
Former Olympic coach Eid Barout said that "giving the team a sufficient period of preparation is very important, whether by pressing the schedule of local matches or postponing them," noting that 15 days is ideal for preparing Al-Abyad.
He believed that the Australian team is characterized by the strong physique of its players, and that the team must prepare for this confrontation in the best possible way, calling on the players of the team to play the match in the same spirit with which they faced South Korea, when they won 1-0.
He said that the South Korean team is better than Australia, and yet the national team outperformed it, stressing the importance of the team players trusting their capabilities, and that they have fierceness and fighting, and that everyone from the media and others unite behind the team, and not give a bigger size to the Australian team.
Eid Barout explained, "It is also important that Al-Abyad play a friendly match before facing Australia, and the issue of self-confidence is very important, when we faced the Korean team, despite its possession and the large number of its professionals amounting to about 10 players, and that it reached the World Cup 10 times, and that it is (an invincible team)." But in the end, these things don't matter and we won, after we had self-confidence.
A member of the board of directors of Al-Nasr Football Company, the supervisor of the first team and the former supervisor of the team, Dr. Hassan Suhail, stressed the importance of giving the team an adequate opportunity to prepare, noting that Al-Abyadh is required to adhere firmly to this opportunity that was given to him to harvest the qualifying card for the World Cup.
"The priority should be for the national team, even if it is under the pressure of the professional league competition," Hassan Suhail said.
He pointed out that the players of the national team are supposed to have reached the mentality that they are qualified to represent the national team in the World Cup.
Regarding the upcoming meeting, he said: "It is important for Al-Abyad to play the match with caution and a balance between defense and attack, because it is a final match, and the loser in it will leave the qualifying race."
He stressed the need not to play this match lightly or with fear of the opponent.
In turn, the former director of the first football team at Al-Nasr Club and technical analyst, Khaled Obaid, confirmed that “there is an important point, which is that until the match date, most of the Australian players who play in the European leagues, will have to press matches, as well as fatigue and stress greatly. Therefore, the national team should take advantage of all these things.”
Khaled Obaid added: "The team has previously faced Australia in the 2019 Asian Cup, which was held in the UAE, and surpassed it."
He believed that the Australian team is characterized by slow performance, and that they rely on long and cross balls, considering that all these things will facilitate the team's task if it focuses on these weaknesses for Australia in the preparation period.
Khaled Obeid wished that all the players of the team would be present during the preparation period and at the time of the match, and that injuries would stay away from them, so that all options were available to the coach.
And he continued, "The choice of the national team coach, Abdullah Suhail, fought against the last South Korean match, was not a stroke of luck, but rather because he knew him, because he had previously trained him in the Al-Ahly youth, and he had good faith in him in the Korea match by scoring the only winning goal in the match."
• The national team is preparing to play an important match against Australia on the seventh of next June in Qatar, as part of the Asian play-off for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
• June 13, the date of the match scheduled for the international supplement in Qatar against the Peruvian national team.
• The victory over South Korea gave the national team a great morale boost before facing Australia.
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