Journal of Kuwait Blue resumes training in preparation for "West Asia" in the presence of 23 players

The first national football team held their training yesterday at the stadium of the late Abdulrahman Al-Bakr in preparation for the Western Asia Championship in Iraq, under the supervision of badistant coach Thamer Anad, in the presence of 23 players .

The national football team resumed training at 5:30 pm yesterday at the stadium of the late Abdulrahman al-Bakr in the Football Federation, as part of preparations for the West Asian Championship.

Faisal Zaid arrived late after receiving prior authorization from technical and administrative bodies due to special circumstances and went under the supervision of badistant coach Thamer Anad. Croatian coach Romio Jozak arrived in Kuwait after training. Who left the English camp because of special circumstances to lead the exercises from today.

The blue technical team in training yesterday, which attended a member of the board of directors of the Football Union and the chairman of the technical committee Khalid Al-Shammari, on the technical aspects and tactics that will play in the tournament.

Coach Spaniard Qadisiya Pablo attended training to control the yellow players, where he quickly interviewed Badr Al Mutawa, Khalid Mohammed Ibrahim and Reza Hani.

The second match of Nepal in Kuwait

Khalid al-Shammari confirmed that the Football Federation had received a letter from the Nepal Football Federation confirming that the football officials had authorized the organization of the second match between Blue and Nepal in qualifying qualifiers for the Cup of the 2022 world in Qatar and the 2023 Asian Cup in China, November 14 in Kuwait.

The first match, scheduled for September 5, was sent from Kuwait by Nepal to Kuwait at the request of the team's guest officials, due to lack of preparation for the stadiums.

On the other hand, officials of the Football Federation are in the race to decide the date of the trip to Iraq, where the date has not yet been fixed in advance, Thursday or Friday, with the search for a private plane. If you decide to leave on Friday, the team will complete the training on Thursday.

Insubordination: exclude successor from injury

For his part, Thamer Anad said that the Arab player Ali Khalaf had been excluded from the list because of the injury suffered, so the technical service had taken care to complete the treatment in order to avoid the accident. worsening of his injury.

"We have achieved the expected results of Camp Marlowe," he said, adding that the four trials were progressive. He was missing a match before the Reading team, which was part of his youth team, was excused for not meeting him.

He added that Al-Azhar was considering competition for the West Asian Championship, taking into consideration the best possible level in the tournament, in preparation for the joint qualifications, adding that there was a desire not to face the Jordanian team in the championship after falling in the second group of qualifications.

The ninth edition of the West Asian Football Championship, organized by Iraq until 14 August, will begin with the host country match with its Lebanese counterpart at the Karbala International Stadium at 19:30. Kuwait, Palestine and Yemen will meet on the same ground at 10:30. In the first group, which also includes the Syrian team, which was eliminated by random draw during the participation in the first round, stands in this group in Karbala.

The second group, to be held in Arbil and starting on 4 August at the Franso Hariri stadium, will include our first national team alongside teams from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan.

Last year, FIFA decided to allow matches in Iraq through three cities: Karbala, Erbil and Basra, after banning official or friendly matches in Iraq.

The first two teams will qualify for the finals on August 14, which means that the competition between the two teams will increase and the nine teams will participate in all games in the spirit of the cup competitions. Mountain peak.

The Iraqi team relies heavily on the country's players and the public to resolve the title of the ninth version, which was to be created in Jordan in 2017, but has been postponed and therefore transferred to Iraq.

For their part, the competent Iraqi authorities have mocked the potential of the tournament 's success, where equipped stadiums and hotels, which will host the participating delegations, will be the first tournaments organized by Iraq in the near future. hope to lift the ban to impose tournaments in all cities.