There have been no major changes.. and “Al-Abyad” faces Lebanon in a friendly way, before traveling to Basra
35 players in the "expanded" list of the national team, in preparation for the "Gulf 25"
From the friendly match of the national team and Kazakhstan last month.
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The National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee of the UAE Football Association 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, knowing that the national team plays in the second group alongside the Qatar teams. And Kuwait and Bahrain, where he begins his career in the tournament against Bahrain on January 7, while facing Kuwait on January 10, and Qatar on the 13th of the same month, at the Olympic Port Stadium.
The new list did not witness any major changes, and the coaching staff of the national team, led by Argentine coach Rodolfo Aruabarina, maintained the same faces that were present with the national team during its last two friendly matches against the national teams of Argentina and Kazakhstan, with the exception of Al Wahda goalkeeper Muhammad Al Shamsi and team player Abdullah Ahmed, who were excluded and punished by the committee. Discipline in the Football Association for leaving the last camp of the national team without prior permission.
The expanded list included 35 players, they are: 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 Haikal, Ahmed Jamil, Saeed Juma, Yahya Nader, Ahmed Berman, Majid Rashid, Abdullah Ramadan, Majid Hassan, Falah Walid, Khaled Al Balushi, Hussein Mahdi, Muhammad Abdul Basit, Ali Saleh, Tahnoun Al Zaabi, Fabio de Lima, Hareb Abdullah, Yahya Al-Ghassani, Caio Canedo, Ali Mabkhout, Sebastian Tigali and 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 the day after tomorrow for a week, where he will face the Lebanese national team in a friendly on the 30th of this month at Al-Maktoum Stadium in Al-Nasr Club, before traveling to Basra on January 2.
• The final list will be announced after the end of round 12 of the ADNOC Professional League, which takes place today and tomorrow.
• «Gulf 25» will be hosted by Iraq between the 6th and 19th of next January.
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