Today, the national football team begins an internal gathering in Dubai in preparation for traveling to Kuwait, next Thursday, to participate in the 26th Arabian Gulf Cup scheduled for the period from the 21st of this month to the third of next January, as it will play within the first group that includes Kuwait, Qatar and Oman, while the group included The second is the teams of Iraq, the “defending champion”, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen.
The technical staff, led by Portuguese coach Paulo Bento, selected 26 players on the national team’s list to compete in the tournament, at a time when Gulf teams began their preparations early.
Statistics monitored by “Emirates Today” revealed that the Emirati White is the last Gulf team to begin its preparations for the Gulf Championship, due to the holding of the matches of the tenth round of the ADNOC Professional League, and the association of a number of players selected in the new list with their teams, especially since the last match in the round is between Shabab Al-Ahly and Al-Wasl. It will be held tomorrow, and a number of international players from both teams also participated in the UAE Super Cup match that was held last Friday.
During the last period, the team’s technical staff was keen to follow up on the levels of players in the league, to determine the elements with which it will compete in the Arabian Gulf Cup, and due to time constraints, the team will not play any friendly match before traveling to Kuwait, and Pinto will be satisfied with the players’ participation with their teams in local and Asian competitions before. Playing the first match in “Gulf 26” against the Qatari team, next Saturday.
For its part, the Kuwaiti team (the host) had begun its preparation since last November, and is currently participating in a preparation camp in Doha, and the program included two friendly matches against Yemen and Lebanon.
As for the Saudi national team, led by French coach Hervé Renard, its preparation began last Thursday, and will continue until the 20th through an internal camp in Riyadh with 28 players on the initial list, while the preparation period included performing eight training sessions.
In turn, the Qatari team began its preparation in a closed indoor camp in the Salwa Resort, last Thursday, and will continue until departure for Kuwait tomorrow, and the new Spanish coach, Luis Garcia, chose 29 players in the initial list.
As for the Omani national team, led by its national coach Rashid Jaber, it launched its preparations early for the Gulf Championship through an internal camp that began on the 10th of this month. The initial list included 31 players, and tomorrow it will play a friendly match against Yemen.
As for the Bahraini national team, it also began its preparations since last Wednesday through an internal camp, while its Croatian coach Dragan announced an initial list of 35 players, which was later reduced to 26 players before the start of the tournament.
The Iraqi team, led by Spanish coach Jesus Casas, began its training camp in Doha the day before yesterday, and will continue until the 20th of this month. The “Mesopotamia Lions” list included 27 players, while the Yemeni team, led by Algerian coach Nour al-Din Ali, launched its preparations at an internal camp in Taiz Governorate, on Thursday. Last November, he also participated in a preparation camp in Doha last November, before heading to Amman yesterday to face its national team in a friendly match in the last leg. To prepare.
. The national team will not play friendly matches before meeting Qatar at the start of its campaign in “Gulf 26”
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