Our youth team will meet today, Wednesday, with their Mauritanian counterpart, at the opening of the Arab U-20 Football Cup in its eighth edition, in the first round of the first group stage group competition, at five o’clock sharp. hours at the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz City Sports Stadium, followed by the UAE-Jordan match. The second group at nine o’clock at the Damak stadium.
The organizing committee of the tournament decided to open the doors of the stadium for fans free of charge in two matches.
For our part, our under-20 team has completed preparations for today’s match against Mauritania. The coach of our team, Saleh Al-Mohammadi, chose the green list, which included: Osama Al-Marmish, Bilal Al-Dawa, Hamed Al-Shankiti, Abdulaziz Al -Faraj, Ahmed Al-Jildan, Muhammad Suleiman, Muhammad Al-Dosari, Swilam Al-Menhali, Salem Al-Najdi, Walid Ayyash, Faisal Al-Sabiani, Abdullah Al-Zaid, Abdulaziz Al-Aliva, Musab Al-Juwayr, Tamer Al-Shahrani, Abdullah Al-Anzi, Muhammad Al-Marri, Saleh Al-Rahmani, Yassin Al-Zubaidi, Abdul-Malik Al-Airi, Mashary Al-Nimr, Yazid Joshan, Abdullah Radif. The tournament, which will be held in the city of Abha from July 20 to August 6, will be attended by 18 teams divided into six groups:
First: Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Iraq
Second: Emirates, Jordan, Yemen
Third: Algeria, Lebanon, Libya.
Fourth: Egypt, Oman, Somalia.
Fifth: Tunisia, Bahrain, Djibouti
Sixth: Morocco, Sudan, Palestine
Al Faisal salutes Arab teams
On behalf of HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, President of the Arab Football Association, Dr. Raja Al Salami, Secretary General of the Arab Football Federation, welcomed the teams participating in the Arab Youth Football Cup. 20 teams organized by the Arab Football Federation and organized by the Saudi Football Federation. In the city of Abha from July 20 to August 6 with the participation of 18 teams. This happened at the beginning of the meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Arab Cup among youth teams under 20, which took place last night in the city of Abha. Dr. Raja Al-Salami expressed his gratitude and appreciation to the President of the Saudi Federation, Mr. Yasser Al-Mashal, for all the services during this tournament.
The Arab teams participating in the tournament continued to arrive in the city of Abha, where teams from Egypt, Bahrain, Oman, Algeria, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Tunisia arrived. Yesterday, the Bahrain team arrived in two groups, and the mission of the Tunisian team was decided to arrive today, Wednesday. United Arab Emirates) and Muhammad Khaled Tarar (Bahrain), Naeem Hosni (Tunisia), Yousef Kamukh (Algeria), Sami Al-Jariyes (Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz Jaafar (Sudan), Youssef Said (Iraq), Omar al-Bakubi (Oman) , Abdullah al-Kandari (Kuwait), Sheikh Ahmed Alaa al-Din (Lebanon) and Muhammad Saad al-Mabrouk (Libya), Mohamed Maarouf (Egypt), Jalal Gaid (Morocco), and Abdelaziz Abouh (Mauritania).
The list of assistant referees includes: Masood Hassan (UAE), Musaed Fawzi (Tunisia), Abban Adel (Algeria), Rashid Weiss (Djibouti), Hisham Al-Rifai (Saudi Arabia), Rami Taan (Syria), Abdullah Al Jardani (Oman ), Ashraf Abu Zubaida (Palestine) and Ali Faqih (Lebanon), Mohamed Amraj Ali (Libya), Sami Abu Zaid (Egypt), Abdel-Samad Abberton (Morocco), Youssef Mohamed (Mauritania) and Ibrahim Saleh Hosni (Yemen).
Corona check
The Medical Commission has started testing the members of the teams participating in the tournament for coronavirus (Covid-19) in accordance with the tournament regulations and medical requirements.
The record was the first version held in Morocco in 1983 and crowned by the Iraqi team after winning the final match against the Saudi Arabia team, who won the next (second) version immediately two years later at the expense of the Algerian team in the capital Algiers in 1985, at that time how the third edition took place in Iraq and was crowned by the Moroccan team in 1989 at the expense of the Iraqi team, and the Moroccan team retained the title in 2011 when it defeated the Saudi Arabian team in the final of the fourth edition, while the fifth edition was held in Jordan in 2012 year, and Tunisia won it after the victory of the Saudi Arabian team, while Senegal became the champion. In the sixth edition, which was held in Saudi Arabia in 2020 after defeating Tunisia in the final, while the seventh edition, which was held in Egypt last year in 2021, saw the Saudi Arabian team after defeating Algeria in the final match.
