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(Reuters) – A new draw for this year's Asian Games men's football tournament will take place Wednesday after two countries were banned from the first at the beginning of the month, a spokesman for the World Cup said. Asian Football Confederation. 19659002] The new draw will take place at the organization's headquarters in Malaysia at 15:00. local time (07:00 GMT)
The United Arab Emirates and Palestine were excluded from the first draw on July 5, although there was no discrepancy in the entries submitted by both countries.
increase the number of participating countries to 26. Four groups will have four teams each, while two groups will have five teams each.
The participating nations can field only three players over the age of 23. Group matches in football are scheduled to start a few days before the official start of the Games, which will take place from August 18 to September 2nd.
(Report by Simon Jennings in Bangalore, edited by Sudipto Ganguly)
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