Messi is at the head of the participants in the face of Ali Mabkhout

Al-Abyad and Argentina.. for history

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The first national football team will play at 7:30 pm today at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Al Jazira Club in Abu Dhabi, a historic international friendly match against the Argentina national team, which came to the country with all its great stars, led by Lionel Messi.

This match comes as a final stop for the Tango team before participating in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, as it plays in Group C alongside Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Poland, and this is the 18th time that the Argentine national team plays in the World Cup after its first appearance in 1930 and won the World Cup title. The world twice, in 1978 and 1986, while the men of the UAE national team seek an honorable appearance.

Last Monday, the national team began an internal camp in Abu Dhabi, as the Argentine Emirates coach, Rodolfo Arwabarina, selected 24 players in the match list as part of his preparation program for the upcoming benefits, foremost of which is the “Gulf 25” scheduled in the Iraqi city of Basra next January.

Arwabarina is counting on his winning cards, led by Ali Mabkhout, Cayo Canedo, Fabio de Lima, Abdullah Ramadan, Majid Hassan and Hareb Abdullah, and hopes to make the most of the technical benefit against the most prominent football stars in the world.

The Argentine national team arrived in the country with all its stars and trained at Al Nahyan Stadium in Al Wahda Club, amid a great reception for the team's players, and the Argentine national team management allowed local and international media as well as the public to attend the training.

The Argentine national team will begin its matches in the World Cup by meeting the Saudi national team on the 22nd of this year, noting that the Argentine national team had played two friendly matches last September against the Honduras national teams and won them 3-0. Lautaro Martinez and Messi scored them “two goals” and against Jamaica and won the same result. And the third, Alvarez scored the first goal.

An Egyptian arbitration team runs the match

The Football Association appointed an Egyptian arbitration crew led by international referee Ibrahim Noureddine to manage the match, assisted by Ahmed Hossam El Din, Sami Mohamed Abu Zeid, Mahmoud Al Banna as fourth referee, Majed Al Shamrani as “video referee” and Mohamed Al Harbi as “assistant video referee”.

Scaloni: The way the Saudi national team plays is similar to the Emirates

Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni stressed the importance of facing the UAE national team in a friendly way, stressing that this match will be the best preparation for the team before facing Saudi Arabia in the first round of the 2022 World Cup.

He said in a press conference: “We could not play many friendly matches, and our match against the UAE national team is an important official friendly match for us, and at the level of the players we will definitely play the match with the aim of preparing the team to start the World Cup next week, and reaching the highest degree of readiness.”

And about his relationship with the coach of the UAE national team, he said: «I did not speak with Rodolfo Aruabarina, and we have a strong relationship, but with regard to the match it will be good and wonderful, he has a good team, and he almost qualified for the World Cup, and we hope that it will be an interesting match for the fans, and we cannot Predicting the result or the events that the match will witness.

And he talked about facing the Saudi national team, and he said: “We are familiar with the Saudi national team, and we watched the team’s friendly match against Panama, as it has a good group of players, and its playing method is similar to the way the UAE national team plays, and in general the first match is always difficult, but in general Not all matches will be easy.

And about Messi's readiness and his role with the team, he said: "I always see that Messi is a distinguished player and is ready to enjoy the World Cup, and he will be with all the players in front of a difficult and powerful task, and we hope to appear well, and to start the tournament in the best way possible next week."

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