The Asian U-23 Championship 2022 starts today, Wednesday, and will last 19 days in Uzbekistan, where the tournament will be held for the first time in the Central Asian region. The tournament is attended by 16 teams divided into four groups. , and our team got into group D along with Tajikistan, Japan and the UAE. Al-Akhdar will open their campaign in the tournament next Friday against Tajikistan at the Lokomotiv Stadium. A delegation of our team arrived in Uzbekistan yesterday and Al-Akhdar Technical Director Saad Al-Shehri previously announced the list of players and included 23 player. players: Nawaf Al-Aqidi, Abdul Rahman Al-Sanbi, Abdul Rahman Al-Shamri, Saud Abdul Hamid, Waleed Al-Ahmad, Khalifa Al-Dosari, Hassan Al-Timbukti, Mishal Khairallah, Muhannad Al-Shankiti, Hamad Al-Yami , Miteb Al-Harbi, Awad Al-Nashiri, Ibrahim Mahanshi, Hamed Al-Ghamdi, Ziyad Al-Juhani, Musab Al-Juwayr, Hussein Al-Issa, Ayman Yahya, Turki Al-Ammar, Haytham Asiri, Abdullah Radif, Muhammad Maran , Firas Al-Braykan. new faces
Asia’s brightest rising talents are vying for continental glory as the tournament has served as a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in Asian and world football, including Japan and Liverpool star Takumi Minamino, Iranians Mehdi Tarimi and Alireza Beiranvand, and UAE Football Asian Cup winner. and Qatar’s top scorer in the league is Al-Moez Ali, and the 2022 edition will be a good opportunity to discover the next generation of great names of the future. For 19 days, the best 16 teams of the continent will play an exciting game over 32 matches at four stadiums, three of which are in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, the Bunyodkor stadium, where the opening match will take place on Wednesday, and on June 19, as well as the Pakhtakor stadiums and Lokomotiv, in addition to the Central Stadium in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi. In the first round, Iran faces 2018 third-placed Qatar in Group A at the Bunyodkor Stadium, while Australia prepares to face their Group B rival Kuwait, who will return after a nine-year absence from the tournament, at the Central Stadium in Tashkent. Both matches will take place at 18:00 local time. Day one matches will continue later in the evening as host nation, 2018 champions Uzbekistan, kick off their first group campaign, facing tournament newcomers Turkmenistan at the Pakhtakor Stadium ahead of Jordan in the second group. its counterpart is Iraq, which won the title in 2013 at the Central Stadium in Qureshi.
Group C competition kicks off the next day when defending champions South Korea, who want to be the first team to win back-to-back titles, face Malaysia at Lokomotiv Stadium. On the other hand, ASEAN rivals Thailand and Vietnam are hoping to survive the final match of the South Asian Games, in which a young Vietnamese team won gold medals two weeks ago in Hanoi, where the two teams meet at Bunyodkor Stadium. The fourth group is witness to a big showdown between 2016 champion Japan and its UAE counterpart at the Pakhtakor Stadium on Friday before Saudi Arabia, which finished second in the latest edition, will face their rival Tajikistan in Thailand at the Lokomotiv Stadium.
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Uzbekistan, South Korea, Iraq and Japan have been crowned in previous editions of the championship and all of them will be looking forward to claiming the title for the second time against Al-Akhdar of Saudi Arabia who is looking for his first title in the championship.
availability of vacancies
It was decided that all matches of the fifth edition of the AFC U-23 Cup 2022 will be played using video assistant referee (VAR) technology in all matches for the second time in a row.
