He seeks to correct the image after the friendly loss from Argentina

The team is testing its readiness for the "Gulf 25" against Kazakhstan

The team hopes to benefit from the technical experience of Kazakhstan.

Photography: Eric Arazas

The national football team will play a friendly match against its counterpart, Kazakhstan, at 19:30 at Al Nahyan Stadium in Al Wahda Club in Abu Dhabi, as part of its preparations for the upcoming competitions, led by the 25th Gulf Cup scheduled for the Iraqi city of Basra next January, at a time when the Football Association announced that the match The stands will be open to the public.

Such friendly experiences come within the plans of the coaching staff, led by Argentine coach Rodolfo Arubarina, to prepare the national team well for the coming period. He decided to exclude the players, Mohammed Al Shamsi and Abdullah Hamad, from the Al Abyad camp, for leaving the camp without prior permission.

The match is a new test for the national team and its coach, Arwabarina, in the need to provide a level of football that reflects the development of the national team and UAE football in general.

Today's match against Kazakhstan comes after the historic friendly experience that Al-Abyad played last Wednesday against the Argentine national team, which ended with the latter's victory 5-0, as part of the Tango national team's preparations for the 2022 World Cup.

Despite the great loss that the team suffered against Argentina, Al-Abyad benefited a lot from this experience to identify the strengths and weaknesses of its ranks and work to address the gaps and negatives to reach a strong and integrated team in all its lines.

During these friendly trials, Arwabarina focuses on equipping the national team well, settling on the appropriate squad, in addition to giving the young elements of the national team opportunities to play in order to determine their abilities and technical capabilities, in addition to gaining more experience and contact.

Al-Abyad finished his preparations for this match after he trained after the Argentina match, and Arwabarina called on the players to present a strong match and an honorable appearance in this match at the end of the current camp for the national team.

It is expected that the national team will play the match with the same squad that played the Argentina match, with some minor changes, with the aim of giving the largest possible number of players the opportunity to play and benefit from such important friendly confrontations.

On the other hand, Kazakhstan is considered one of the emerging teams in Europe, and it includes in its ranks elite players who play in European leagues, and the Whites and Kazakhstan had previously faced each other on more than one friendly and official occasion when the latter was playing in the Asian continent.

He mentions the Kazakhstan national team that had bid farewell to the European qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, after it had played in Group D, which included the defending champions France, Ukraine, Finland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the biggest loss that the Kazakhstan national team suffered in these qualifiers is against France with eight clean goals.

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