25 players are on the expanded list of the national team.. and “Al-Abyad” will face Lebanon in a friendly match
The National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee of the UAE Football Association has approved the expanded national team list in preparation for participation in the Arabian Gulf Cup "Gulf 25", which will be hosted by the Iraqi city of Basra from 6 to 19 January.
The expanded list included 35 players: Khaled Issa, Ali Khasif, Fahd Al-Dhanhani, Hassan Hamza, Khaled Al-Sanani, Hassan Al-Mahrami, Salem Sultan, Shaheen Abdul Rahman, Khalifa Al-Hammadi, Walid Abbas, Khaled Al-Hashemi, Abdul-Salam Muhammad, Al-Hassan Saleh, Khaled Al-Dhanhani, Abdulaziz Heikal, Ahmed Jamil, Saeed Juma, Yahya Nader, Ahmed Berman, Majid Rashid, Abdullah Ramadan, Majed Hassan, Falah Walid, Khaled Al Balushi, Hussein Mahdi, Muhammad Abdul Basit, Ali Saleh, Tahnoon Al Zaabi, Fabio de Lima, Hareb Abdullah, Yahya Al Ghassani , Caio Canedo, Ali Mabkhout, Sebastian Tigali, Ahmed Fawzy.
The final list, which will leave for Basra, will be announced after the end of the twelfth week of the ADNOC Professional League matches.
Al-Abyad will enter a camp in Dubai, starting next Monday, for a week, where he will face his brother Lebanon in a friendly match on December 30 at Al-Maktoum Stadium in Al-Nasr Club, before traveling to Basra on January 2.
The national team will play in the second group alongside the teams of Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, as it will start its tournament against Bahrain on January 7, while it will face Kuwait on January 10 and Qatar on January 13 at the Olympic Port Stadium.
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