The Football Association has announced that Al Akhdar will play two preparatory friendlies for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar against Iceland and Panama in Abu Dhabi next November. Al Akhdar will face Iceland on November 6 to meet his Panamanian counterpart four days later before returning to the capital Riyadh to face Croatia on the 16th of the same month.
The national team will play two friendly matches next September against Ecuador and the USA, 23 and 27 of them in the Spanish city of Murcia.
In June, the national team played two friendly matches against Colombia and Venezuela at the training camp in the Spanish city of Alicante and lost to them with a score of 1:0.
And he signed Al-Akhdar in Group C at the World Cup along with Argentina, Mexico and Poland.
The Falcons are participating in the World Cup for the sixth time in their history after 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2018, the first best being in the US in 1994 when they beat Belgium in the group stage with a historic goal. off Saeed Al Owairan before he made the playoffs against Sweden 1-3.
