Muscat, November 3 (ONA) - The first national football team will continue its local camp until November 17 at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Bousher in preparation for the Asian double qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.
It was decided that our national team would enter an external camp in Dubai in the past period, during which it would engage in friendly meetings previously identified with the teams of Jordan and Kuwait, but due to the circumstances associated with the Coronavirus pandemic, that camp was cancelled and it was sufficed with the local gathering without international friendly matches.
The first football team is expected to play two matches with the Olympic national team. The first gathering in the stadium will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, in the morning and evening sessions at ten in the morning and five thirty in the evening. The training will continue in two periods and sometimes one period, according to the program set by the technical staff, in which it was decided to hold three friendly matches, two of which will be with the Olympic team, and the third will be with a club in the Omantel League.
The first friendly match will be next Friday, the 6th of this month. The second friendly match will be held on Friday the 13th of this month, and the third and final match will be at the end of the preparatory gathering on the 16th of this month.
The camp is part of the preparations for the national team to complete its participation in the double Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup Finals, which our national team is positioned in second place in Group E with 12 points behind the Qatari team, with 13 points.
The coach of our first national football team, Branko Ivankovic, had called 28 players for this camp, namely Fayez bin Issa Al-Rashidi, Muhammad bin Saleh Al-Muslimi, Harib bin Jamil Al-Saadi, Abdullah bin Fawaz Bait Abdul-Ghafoor, Salah bin Saeed Al-Yahya, Ahmed bin Khalfan Al-Khamisi, Yazid bin Salem Al-Maashani, Mu'taz bin Saleh Abd Rabbo (Dhofar), Ahmad bin Faraj Al-Rawahi, Eid bin Muhammad Al-Farsi, Amjad bin Abdullah Al-Harithi, Zahir bin Sulaiman Al-Aghbari, Khalid bin Nasser Al-Briiki, Abdulaziz bin Mubarak Al-Ghailani (Al-Seeb), Omar bin Talib Al-Fizari, Issam bin Abdullah Al-Subhi (Rustaq), Ahmad bin Khalifa Al-Kaabi and Ali bin Dhahi Al-Rashidi (Al-Nahda), Fahmi bin Saeed Bait Durbin, Ibrahim bin Salih Al-Mukhaini (Al-Nasr), Muhammad bin Al-Dhib Al-Busaidi, Arshad bin Saeed Al-Alawi (Oman Club), Abbas bin Muhammad Al-Hashami (Muscat), Mohsen bin Jawhar Al-Khaldi (Saham), Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Hajri (Bahla) and Omran bin Saeed Al-Haidi, Abdulaziz bin Humaid Al-Muqbali, and Ali bin Sulaiman Al-Busaidi (Fnja).
(ONA)