Qatar announces squad for Gulf Cup
Doha: The Qatar Football Association has announced a new-look national squad for the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup to be held in Basra, Iraq, from January 6 to 19, 2023.
Many of the senior players who did duty at the 2022 FIFA World Cup have been rested while Portuguese Bruno Pinheiro has been named the coach of the 27-member squad.
Those rested include Hassan Al Haydos, Akram Afif, Almoez Ali, Abdulaziz Hatem, Karim Boudiaf, Abdelkarim Hassan, Boualam Khoukhi, Bassam Al Rawi, Saad Al Sheeb and Pedro Miguel.
Qatar, three-time winners of the Gulf Cup, are in Group B, also featuring Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Group A includes Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The squad:
Meshaal Barsham, Yousef Abdullah, Tarek Salman, Abdullah Al Yazidi, Faisal Mohammed, Mustafa Meshaal, Muhammad Waad, Yousuf Abdurisag, Hashim Ali, Salem Al Hajri, Ali Asad (Al Sadd), Ismaeel Mohammed, Shehab El Laithi, Muhammad Ayash, Diab Haroun, Assim Madibo, Muhammed Muntari, Abdulrahman Fahmy (Al Duhail), Naif Al Hadhrami, Tamim Mansour (Al Rayyan), Homam Al Amin, Amro Suraj (Al Gharafa), Ahmed Fadel, Khaled Muneer, Hazem Ahmed (Al Wakrah), Mahmoud Abunada, Jassim Jaber (Al Arabi).
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