Muscat,(ONA) - The national junior football team begins tomorrow, the preparatory phase for the AFC Asian Cup finals in Bahrain and for the 2021 World Cup qualifiers in Peru, by setting up its indoor camp at Seeb Sports Stadium until September 20.
The technical staff announced the list of players who were summoned to the camp, which included 26 players: Muhammad Al-Muqbali (Sohar), Salem Al-Abdali, Jawad Al-Ezzi, Hamza Al-Asiri, Abdul Rahman Al-Jabri, Nibras Al-Busaidi (Al-Seeb), Ahmad Al-Hilali (Al-Rustaq), Luqman Al-Jadidi, Murshid Al-Hamhami, Abdulaziz Al-Ruzaiqi, Mishari Al-Hasani, Muhannad Al-Saadi, Ammar Al-Saadi (Al-Suwaiq), Khaled Al-Hashemi (Al-Nahda), Mamoun Al-Oraimi, Fahd Al-Mukhaini, Al-Munthir Al-Hasani (Al-Orouba), Al Mu'tasim Al-Sameen (Dhofar), Turki Abdullah, Abdul Majeed Al-Balushi, Ali Al-Balushi, Muhammad bin Abdul-Hakim and Khalad bin Yazid (Al-Ittihad), Ayham Al-Raqqadi and Abd Al-Aleem Al-Rawahi (Fanja) and Mansour Al-Amri (Al-Khaboura).
This camp, led by the national coach Hilal Al-Oufi, comes 3 days after the gathering to conduct the necessary medical examinations after a hiatus of more than 7 months due to the Covid 19 pandemic. According to the plan presented by the technical staff in preparation for the Asian Nations Cup finals that will be held in Bahrain from November 25 to December 13 and the World Cup qualifiers in Peru 2021, the technical staff adopted the list of the players who participated in the last camp in February through the friendly match with the Qatari team that was held in Al Seeb Sports Stadium, with the participation of a number of players who were called.
Hilal Al-Oufi, the coach of the junior national football team, said that the Football Association has officially approved the program for preparing the national team from tomorrow until September 20 according to the time plan that has been drawn up, explaining that the stage of gradually returning players to their physical and skill levels is important and the program will differ from the normal situation in view of the novel coronavirus pandemic, by putting in place the required precautionary measures in finding an approved system throughout the days of the camp.
Al-Oufi explained that the gathering program will start from tomorrow, when all players and the technical, administrative and medical staff undergo coronavirus tests, and the technical staff will wait for the results of those checks between two to 3 days and after their appearance, the training will take place, and with regard to housing, it will be individual for all players, so that each player is in a separate room, as well as feeding.
The coach of the junior national football team explained his statement by saying, “As for the technical program, the first week will include individual training for all players, and in the second week we will switch to group training so that each group does not exceed 8 players. In the second week, we will start group training normally through two periods, morning and evening, distributed between the stadium and the beachfront, as well as the reinforcement hall, in order to quickly raise the level of fitness of the players, and in the evening, skill and technical training will be held.
(ONA)