French coach Herve Renard announced yesterday, Wednesday, the greenlist to participate in the training camp, which will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from October 17 to November 10, as part of the third stage of the preparation program for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which will start in November next year.
In the third stage, the national team will play five friendly matches: the first against Macedonia on October 22 at Zayed Sports City in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, the second friendly match against Albania on October 26, and the third will be with Honduras on the 30th of the same month. Both the second and third matches will be played at Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
Al Akhdar will play their fourth friendly against Iceland on November 6 next year at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
It is worth noting that in the previous two stages (first and second), the national team played four friendly matches, two matches at each stage against the teams of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and America.
Coach Herve Renard called for 32 players to join the camp, their names were as follows: Muhammad Al-Owais, Fawaz Al-Karni, Muhammad Al-Yami, Nawaf Al-Aqidi, Yasser Al-Shahrani, Ali Al-Bilakhi, Abdul. -Ila Al-Omari, Abdullah Mado, Hasan Al-Timbukti, Sultan Al-Ghannam, Ahmed Bamasud, Saud Abdulhamid Muhammad Al-Buraik, Riyad Sharahili, Ali Al-Hasan, Muhammad Kanu, Abdulela Al-Maliki, Salman Al-Faraj, Nasser Al-Dosari, Abdullah Atif, Sami Al-Najai, Salem Al-Dosari, Abdul Rahman Al-Abbud, Fahd Al-Maulid, Nawaf Al-Abed, Hattan Bahbri, Ayman Yahya, Haytham Asiri, Abdullah Radif, Abdullah Al-Hamdan , Saleh Al-Shehri, Firas Al-Braykan.
The team will travel next Monday to the Emirates of Abu Dhabi after the players gather in the capital, Riyadh, to depart from King Khalid International Airport and reach Abu Dhabi International Airport.
It is worth noting that the national team is in Group C at the 2022 Qatar World Cup along with Argentina, Mexico and Poland.
