Today, Wednesday, our futsal team will meet their Japanese counterpart at the start of their journey to the 2022 Futsal Asian Cup, which will be held in Kuwait from September 27 to October 8.
The tournament started yesterday, Tuesday, with 16 teams divided into four groups, and the tournament will take place for the first time after a four-year hiatus caused by the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to the Covid-19 pandemic. . Our team qualified by finishing second in the first group of the West Asia qualifying tournament.
The Futsal Greens are keen to achieve a good result, especially since our team lost three matches in the group stage in the last draw they participated in in 2016.
Al Akhdar prepared well for the tournament under Spanish coach Andreu Alvarez where, in addition to participating in the Arab States Cup, he finished second in the 2022 West Asian Futsal Championship.
Today Al Akhdar will face an experienced team in the tournament as Japan has previously won the title in 2006, 2012, 2014 and was runner-up 6 times, and its last participation was in the 2018 tournament. The Japanese team has qualified. to the Asian final, taking first place in the Eastern qualifier.
The Saudi Greens are in Group D along with Japan, South Korea and Vietnam.
