Aruabarina seeks to get the players to the required readiness before the start of the tournament
The national team is launching its preparation for the "Gulf 25" in Dubai today
Al-Abyad will face Lebanon in a friendly match next Friday.
From the source
Today, the first national football team will launch its preparation stage for the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup, which is scheduled in the Iraqi city of Basra, through an internal camp in Dubai, and it will continue until the date of travel to Iraq on the second of next January, noting that the technical staff of the team had chosen an expanded list that included 35 players before being reduced.
The national team will play a friendly experience next Friday at Al-Maktoum Stadium in Al-Nasr Club, in front of the Lebanese national team, during which the technical staff, led by Argentine coach Rodolfo Arobarina, seeks to check on the elements that will be used in the upcoming Gulf championship.
The selection of the selected elements for the national team camp came through watching the technical staff of the national team, led by Argentine coach Rodolfo Arobarina, for the matches of the ADNOC Professional League, where the coach is keen to be in the stands with the aim of selecting the most ready and most prepared elements to implement his plans and training programs, especially since the next stage requires a certain quality of players In order for Al-Abyad to restore his true level and personality as a strong team, and to compensate for his failure to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, which he finally closed in Qatar, after he was close to qualifying for it, but he lost the opportunity after losing to Australia in the play-off match with two goals to one.
Coach Aruabarina plans, during this camp, despite his shortness, to equip the national team in the required manner and to bring its players to the stage of readiness required from all sides, technical, physical, moral and psychological, so that Al-Abyad has a strong presence in the tournament that it seeks to win its title for the third time in its history, noting that the draw that was finally drawn In the city of Basra, it placed him in the second group, which includes the teams of Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
The coach of the national team was keen not to make any major changes in the ranks of the national team and to keep the same elements that were present in the recent period, as he now knows the capabilities of each player, but at the same time he was keen to mix young elements with experience, and tried to focus more on renewing the blood of the national team with players. Young.
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 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, Ahmed Fawzy.
Argentine coach Aruabarina, who has been leading the national team for more than 10 months after the Football Association contracted him last February, is trying to achieve a new qualitative leap with the national team and convince officials in the Football Association to continue at the head of the coaching staff.
The kick-off against the Bahrain national team
The national team will begin its campaign in the tournament by meeting its counterpart, Bahrain, on the seventh of next January.
The Gulf Cup, in addition to being an important tournament for the team that won its title twice in its history, in 2007 and 2013, represents an important stage in its preparation for the upcoming foreign competitions, especially at the level of the 2023 Asian Cup.
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