The players performed the last training with high spirits

The "White Men" sing the 2022 World Cup through the Australian gate

Optimism dominates the team's mission in Doha.

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The first football team will play at ten in the evening, Emirates time, at Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium in Doha, a historic match against its Australian counterpart, as part of the Asian play-off qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, knowing that the winner of the two teams will face the Peruvian team on the 13th of this month The winner of this match will qualify directly for the World Cup, and Al-Abyad men hope to write a new history for Emirati football by reaching the World Cup for the second time, nearly 32 years after reaching the World Cup for the first time in its history during the World Cup in Italy in 1990.

The last confrontation that brought the two teams together in the quarter-finals of the 2019 Asian Cup that was held in the UAE ended with the victory of the Emirates with a clean goal scored by Ali Mabkhout. Will Mabkhout repeat the same scenario in today's meeting, while the first meeting between the two teams was a friendly match held in the UAE in 2011, It ended in a negative draw.

The stars of the UAE national team know that the task will not be easy, but at the same time it is not impossible, and requires fighting on the field for 90 continuous minutes, especially as they face a significant opponent who has been in the World Cup five times.

The team completed all its preparations for this confrontation through a short camp that it set up in Doha, which has continued since May 30, and before that it fought a closed camp in Dubai, during which it played a friendly match against the Gambia team that ended in a 1-1 draw.

Al-Abyad performed his last training session at Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium, where the match will be held with the participation of all players, in a spirit of morality, seriousness and determination to excel, and to delight the Emirati fans who flock to Doha to be behind their team and support it strongly in the stands, after the Football Association allocated private planes to transport the willing public. In travel, the Football Association has allocated 5,000 tickets in the stadium for the Emirati audience.

Al-Abyad is armed in this match with his winning cards, which he bet on led by Ali Mabkhout and Cayo Kanedo, and Suhail fought alongside the presence of Omar Abdel Rahman, who had joined the team recently after a long absence due to injury.

The coach of the national team, Aruabarina, sought during the last training to reach the appropriate combination that he will play in the match, after he studied a number of the Australian team’s matches, the latest of which was its last match against Jordan in a friendly match. His goals, along with speed of play, skills and quick transition from defense to offense.

The UAE national team played 10 matches in the decisive round of the World Cup qualifiers, winning three, drawing the same, and losing four, while it played 8 matches in the first round in Group G, which it topped, gaining 18 points, after winning 6 matches and losing two matches.

Historically, the UAE and Australia teams have faced each other in six matches. The UAE team won in one match, which was in the quarter-finals of the 2019 Asian Cup. The Australian team won three matches with a score of 2-0, 1-0 and 2-0, and they drew in two matches, with a score of zero – zero in the two matches.

The match will be managed by an Uzbek team, led by Uzbek referee Ilgir Tantachi.

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