The roster of the first national team participating in the 26th Arabian Gulf Football Cup “Gulf 26,” which begins tomorrow in Kuwait, has witnessed major changes from those that participated in the last tournament held in Iraq in 2023, as the team’s coach, the Portuguese Paulo Bento, focused on: He focused on the young elements at the expense of the old guard, and he carried out a major replacement and replacement process within the ranks of the national team since he took over the job in July of last year, while keeping only 11 players out of 26. Players who participated in the last edition of the Gulf Championship.
“Gulf 26” will witness the participation of 15 players for the first time out of the 26 players selected in the new list that left for Kuwait yesterday by private plane, as this is the first participation in the Gulf Cup for Hamad Al-Muqbali, Kwame Koidu, Khamis Al-Mansouri, Zayed Sultan, Fares Khalil, and Abdullah Idris. Yahya Nader, Mackenzie Hunt, Abdullah Hamad, Issam Fayez, Marcus Millioni, and Fahd Badr. Lucas Pimenta, Solomon Suso and Brno Oliveira.
The two veteran goalkeepers, Ali Khasif and Khaled Issa, are considered to have participated the most in the Gulf Cup among the players on the current list, as the current participation is the sixth for each of them in the Gulf Cup tournaments. Ali Khasif participated in “Gulf 19, Gulf 21, Gulf 22, Gulf 24, and Gulf 25.” While Khaled Issa participated in “Gulf 21, Gulf 22, Gulf 23, Gulf 24, and Gulf «25».
“Gulf 26” will continue until January 3, with the participation of eight Gulf teams, divided into two groups. The first includes teams: the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman, while the second group includes teams: Iraq, the defending champion, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen.
The final list of the team that will participate in the “Gulf 26” in Kuwait included 26 players: Khaled Issa, Hamad Al-Muqbali, Ali Khasif, Muhammad Al-Attas, Kwame Canedo, Khalifa Al-Hammadi, Khamis Al-Mansouri, Zayed Sultan, Khaled Al-Dhanhani, Fares Khalil, Abdullah Idris, Lucas Pimenta, Majid Rashid, Yahya Nader, and Mackenzie Hunt. And Abdullah Hamad And Tahnoon Al-Zaabi, Issam Fayez, Marcos Meloni, Yahya Al-Ghassani, Hareb Abdullah, Fabio de Lima, Fahd Badr, Solomon Suso, Bruno Oliveira and Caio Canedo.
While the list of the team in the “Gulf 25”, which was held last year in Iraq, included: Khaled Issa, Ali Khasif, Khaled Al-Sanani, Shaheen Abdul Rahman, Khalifa Al-Hammadi, Walid Abbas, Khaled Al-Hashimi, Abdul-Salam Muhammad, Hassan Al-Muharami, Khaled Al-Dhanhani, Abdulaziz Heikal, Ahmed Jameel, and Majid Rashid. And Abdullah Ramadan, Majid Hassan, Falah Walid, Khaled Al Balushi and Hussein Mahdi, Muhammad Abdel Basit, Ali Saleh, Tahnoon Al Zaabi, Fabio De Lima, Hareb Abdullah, Yahya Al Ghassani, Caio Canedo and Sebastian Tigali.
The UAE national team’s roster in the “Gulf 24”, which was held in Qatar in 2019, included: Ali Khasif, Khalifa Al Hammadi, Abdullah Ramadan, Khaled Issa, Ali Saleh, Salem Rashid, Khalfan Mubarak, Ali Mabkhout, Hamdan Al Kamali, Majid Sorour, Shaheen Abdul Rahman, Tariq Ahmed, Jassim Yaqoub, Zayed Al Ameri and Muhammad Al Attas. Ahmed Barman, Bandar Al-Ahbabi, and Muhammad Saleh Barghash, Mohammed Hassan Al Shamsi, Adel Al Hosani, Al Hassan Saleh, Ahmed Khalil, Ismail Al Hammadi, Omar Abdul Rahman, Walid Hussein, Mohammed Marzouk, Youssef Jaber, and Khalil Al Hammadi.
At the level of “Gulf 23”, which was held in Kuwait in 2017, the final list of the team included 23 players: Fares Jumaa, Muhammad Fawzi, Ali Mabkhout, Ahmed Al-Hashimi, Khamis Ismail, Muhammad Marzouq, Ismail Al-Hammadi, Khaled Issa, Muhammad Ahmed, Ismail Ahmed, Muhannad Salem, Muhammad Abdul-Rahman and Ahmed Berman. Omar Abdul Rahman, Rayan Yaslam, and Khalifa Mubarak Mahmoud Khamis, Muhammad Hassan Al Shamsi, Muhammad Barghash Al Menhali, Salem Al Azizi, Ali Salmin, Sultan Al Mandhari, and Ahmed Mal Allah Fayrouz.
While the list of the team that participated in the “Gulf 22”, which was held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, included 24 players: Abdulaziz Heikal, Abdulaziz Sanqur, Walid Abbas, Ismail Al-Hammadi, Ahmed Khalil, Majed Hassan, Habib Al-Fardan, Amer Abdul-Rahman, Ali Khasif, Khamis Ismail, Ali Mabkhout, Khaled Issa and Ismail Ahmed. And Muhammad Ahmed, Muhammad Fawzi, Muhannad Al-Anazi, and Omar Abdul Rahman, And Muhammad Abdul Rahman, Rashid Issa, Amer Omar, Ismail Matar, Muhammad Youssef, Youssef Saeed and Ali Al Amiri.
In “Gulf 21”, which was held in Bahrain in 2013 and won by the UAE, the national team roster included 23 players: Ali Khasif, Khaled Issa, Daoud Suleiman, Abdulaziz Heikal, Abdulaziz Sanqur, Ismail Al-Hammadi, Ahmed Khalil, Majed Hassan, Muhammad Fawzi, Amer Abdulrahman, Haboush Saleh, Ali Al-Amiri, and Abdullah Al-Amiri. Musa, Khamis Ismail, Ali Mabkhout, Walid Abbas, and Muhammad Ahmed, Muhannad Al-Anazi, Omar Abdul-Rahman, Habib Al-Fardan, Hamdan Al-Kamali, Saeed Al-Kathiri, and Ismail Matar.
The final squad of the UAE national team that participated in the “Gulf 20”, which was held for the first time in Yemen in 2010, included Majed Nasser, Maher Jassim, Saeed Al-Kass, Rashid Issa, Obaid Al-Taweelah, Ismail Al-Hammadi, Ahmed Khamis, Mahmoud Al-Mas, Khaled Sabeit, Sabet Khater, Sultan Barghash, Ahmed Jumaa and Fawzi. Fayez, Saif Muhammad, Faris Jumaa, Muslim Fayez, Ali Al-Wahaibi and Muhammad Abdul Rahman, Abdul Aziz Fayez, Youssef Jaber, Fahd Fresh, Sultan Al Ghafri, Walid Abbas, and Amer Mubarak.
In terms of the team’s participation in “Gulf 19”, which was held in Oman in 2009, the list included: Majid Nasser, Obaid Al-Taweelah, Muhammad Qasim, Adel Abdulaziz, Ismail Al-Hammadi, Ahmed Khalil, Ali Khasif, Khaled Sabeel, Saleh Obaid, Ahmed Mubarak, Haider Alo Ali, Hamdan Al-Kamali, and Abdul Rahim. Jumaa, Mahmoud Khamis, Ismail Matar, Muhammad Al-Shehhi, and Fares Jumaa Muhannad Al-Anazi, Muhammad Fayez, Abdullah Mal Allah, Ahmed Muadhad, Ali Al-Wahaibi, Walid Abbas, Nawaf Mubarak, Amer Mubarak, and Muhammad Ibrahim.
. The two veteran goalkeepers, Ali Khaseef and Khaled Issa, participated most in the Gulf Cup among the players on the current list.
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