Qatar National Team Continues Its Training Camp in Spain

The Qatari national football team continues its preparations within its preparatory camp in Marbella, Spain, until June 28, as part of its preparations for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

During the training sessions, the Spanish coach of the Qatar national team, Felix Sanchez, focused on diversifying plans and playing methods, focusing on the physical aspect, and setting his own philosophy with the aim of maintaining the form that the players have reached, and preparing them for the next stage that will witness. They watch them play a number of friendly matches, in addition to setting up camps for them in different European cities.

On Thursday, June 9, the Qatari national team coach summoned eight players from the Olympic team after the end of their participation in the U-23 Asian Cup, and they are Salah Zakaria, Youssef Abdul Razzaq, Ahmed Suhail, Jassem Jaber, and Osama Al-. Al-Tiri, Nayef Al-Hadrami, Muhammad Ayyash, Mustafa Tariq.

Since the Qatari national team won the Asian Cup three years ago, the Qatar Football Association has provided it with a complete preparation plan and participated in many continental tournaments, as well as in the European qualifiers, which earned it a lot of experience, during which it obtained a great benefit by participating in this type of confrontations.

The technical staff of the national team is looking forward during the current preparation stage to reach the degree of high technical readiness that qualifies it to enter strongly into the next World Cup.

The Qatari team will play a number of friendly matches, starting in late June, with some international teams, and these matches will be enough to complete the preparation before the World Cup.

Considering that the national team will face Ecuador at the opening of the World Cup, this matter will certainly not be new to coach Felix Sanchez's men after they participated in the 2019 Copa America and got to know those teams closely, and they had experiences with teams that seem stronger than the Ecuadorean competitor, like Argentina, to As well as playing with other similar teams such as Colombia and Paraguay, as well as facing Brazil in a friendly.

The Qatari team’s list for the Spanish camp included 27 players: Saad Al Sheeb, Mishaal Barshim, Youssef Hassan, Pedro Miguel, Tariq Salman, Abdel Karim Hassan, Boualem Khoukhi, Akram Afif, Mohamed Waad, Musab Khader, Ali Asad, Salem Al Hajri, Hassan Al Haydos, Mohamed Muntari, Bassam Al Rawi, Ismail Mohamed, Al Moez Ali, Karim Boudiaf and Asim Madbo, Abdullah Al-Ahraq, Abdul Rahman Muhammad, Khaled Mounir, Hazem Ahmed, Ahmed Fadel, Hammam Al-Amin, Ahmed Alaa, and Abdel Aziz Hatem.

During its World Cup preparation program, the Qatari team played two international matches in Doha last March, the first against Bulgaria, during which it won (2-1), and the second with Slovenia, which ended in a goalless draw.

The Qatari team will face the World Cup competitions at the top of Group A along with the teams of Ecuador, Senegal, and the Netherlands, and it will start its campaign against its Ecuadorean counterpart in the opening match that will be held on Monday, November 21, at Al Bayt Stadium.