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The United Arab Emirates Football Federation has officially lodged a complaint against its Qatari counterpart for the participation of Qatari national players in the 2019 Asian Cup.

The AFC newspaper reports that the AFC receives the complaints no later than two hours after the end of the match, provided that the complaining party submits the documents proving the complaint within 48 hours of filing the complaint.

The newspaper pointed out that the United Arab Emirates had prepared a record proving that Qatar was rigged in the naturalization documents of at least two of the players, namely Bassam Al-Rawi "of Iraqi origin" and Maaz Ali "Sudanese origin", in violation of Article 7 of the law of the Federation Football Association "FIFA" The question of the actors of naturalization.

The article indicates that naturalization is possible provided that the player is at least 5 years old in the country to play for his team and that he starts his stay in this country at 18 and that he be authorized to represent him after he is at least 23 years old. With another country team in youth, Olympic or first.

A player under 23 may play for a national team provided that one of his parents, or one of his grandparents, is from that country.

Qatar, which participates in the Asian Cup, includes 10 naturalized players who have not yet reached the age of 23: Bassam Al-Rawi, Tarek Salman, Akram Afif, Tamim Mohammed Al-Moujiz, Salim Al-Rawi Hajri, Abdulrahman Mohammad Mustafa, Al-Muziz Ali, Yousef Hassan, Al-Ahmed Al-Bakri and Al-Muhammad

The paper confirmed that the UAE would "open" an investigation into the proven involvement of the Qatar Football Federation, noting that Qatar had granted citizenship to Moez Ali's mother and Bassam Al-Rawi's mother. since they were born in Doha and fake certificates from the Ministry of the Interior.

A legal source in the Asian Union said the official documents revealed manipulation of naturalization documents by Qatar, which would exclude his team from the final match and the United Arab Emirates team would play against Japan face in Japan, unless the proof is made after the end of the championship and the Qatari team wins the title. Remove the trophy and give it to Japan and impose punitive sanctions on the Qatari federation, according to the UAE newspaper.

Qatar won the UAE semi-finals semi-finals to make an appointment in Japan in the rematch scheduled on Wednesday.