Former World Cup football player and technical analyst, Abdulrahman Mohammed, confirmed that there are several challenges and difficulties that will face the coach of the national football team, the Portuguese Paulo Bento, in the process of preparing the team for its two upcoming matches against the Qatari and Iranian teams, respectively, on the fifth and tenth of next September, in the first and second rounds of the final round qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, as the “Whites” will play in Group One, which includes, in addition to Qatar and Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and North Korea. He pointed out that the most important of these challenges is that about 60% of the players who were on the last list of the national team and who were candidates for selection in the new list did not participate with their teams in the first round of the Professional League Cup (Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup), as well as in the first round of the ADNOC Professional League, which concluded the day before yesterday. In addition, most of the players may not be in good physical condition, especially with the beginning of the season, in addition to the presence of a number of players who had been injured in a previous period, and have not yet participated with their teams, indicating that he had hoped The national team should play a friendly match before the matches against Qatar and Iran, and not just have the players play the first round of the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup and the first and second rounds of the ADNOC Professional League, due to the importance of the friendly match in assessing the level of the players and increasing harmony between them.
Abdulrahman Mohammed told Al-Emarat Al-Youm: “Bento needs more time to prepare the team for the two matches, in addition to the fact that it was very important for the team to play a friendly match.”
The most prominent challenges
1- 60% of the national team players will not participate with their teams in the first round of the Professional League Cup, as well as the first round of the league.
2- Most of the national team players are not physically ready before the matches against Qatar and Iran.
3- There are a number of injured players who have not yet participated with their teams.
4- There was not enough time to prepare the players, and there was no friendly match before the matches against Qatar and Iran.
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