Spain's Felix Sanchez, coach of the Qatari national team, announced the final list to participate in the 2022 World Cup, which "Al Annabi" will open against Ecuador at the home stadium, after about a week.
The list included 26 players without any surprises, after the Spanish coach kept most of the players who had always been in the national team under his command since he took over the technical management, most notably Akram Afif, Al-Moez Ali, Hassan Al-Haidous and goalkeeper Saad Al-Sheeb.
The Qatar national team list came as follows:
Goalkeepers: Saad Al Sheeb, Mishaal Barshim (Al Sadd) and Youssef Hassan (Al Gharafa).
Defense: Pedro Miguel, Musab Khader, Tariq Salman, Boualem Khoukhi, Abdul Karim Hassan (Al Sadd), Bassam Al Rawi, Ismail Muhammad (Al Duhail), Hammam Al Amin (Al Gharafa), Jassim Jaber (Al Arabi).
Midfielders: Mustafa Tariq, Ali Asad, Muhammad Waad, Salem Al-Hajri, Hassan Al-Haidous (Al-Sadd), Karim Boudiaf, Asim Madibo (Al-Duhail), Abdulaziz Hatem, Nayef Al-Hadrami (Al-Rayyan), and Khaled Mounir (Al-Wakra).
Attack: Ahmed Aladdin (Al-Gharafa), Akram Afif (Al-Sadd), Al-Moez Ali, and Muhammad Muntari (Al-Duhail).
The latest preparations for the Qatar national team
And the coach had chosen 27 players to enter the final stage of preparation for the World Cup during the camp he entered the national team in the Spanish city of Marbella since the beginning of last October, so that the final list witnessed the exclusion of one player, Abdul Rahman Fahmy, the Al-Duhail player, who was not among the basic options for coach Sanchez. .
It is expected that the delegation of the Qatari national team will return from Spain tomorrow, Sunday, to enter a closed camp to put the finishing touches before the start of the World Cup campaign against the Ecuadorian national team in the first group competitions, which also includes the Dutch and Senegalese teams.
Al-Annabi will have to face Senegal (2021 African champions) in the second match on November 25 at Al-Thumama Stadium, and then finish the group stage with a strong match against the Netherlands on the 29th of the same month, at Al-Bayt Stadium.
During the Spain camp, the Qatari national team played 5 friendly matches, in which it achieved victory, as it defeated Honduras, Panama and Albania with the same score (1-0), and beat Nicaragua 2-1 and Guatemala 2-0.