White embrace Bahrain today at the beginning of the journey «Asian Dream»
January 05, 2019
The national football team starts today's search for the 2019 Asian Cup, where they will kick off against Bahrain at 8:00 pm at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
The team hopes to start the tournament with a win, so that their task is easy in the first round, where the bet on the top of the first group to complete the road until the first of February, where the deadline with the final version of the 17th.
The match begins after the opening ceremony, which was specially equipped to celebrate the continental championship, which is hosted in the UAE for the second time after 1996, but for the first time in its history with the participation of 24 teams. Within the same group, Thailand and India will meet tomorrow at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
The team's confrontations with his Bahraini counterpart are always on the cards and excitement, while Al-Obeid plans to repeat his scenario of winning Bahrain 2-1 in 2015. The striker Ali Mabkhout, the winner of the top scorer with five goals, hopes to visit the net, Championship, after only 13 seconds.
This is the tenth appearance of the team in the history of participation in the Asian Cup, having found in nine previous versions, since the 1980 Championship, where is still the best center is the scope of the 1996 edition held in the UAE, beside the third place in the version of the year 2015.
The UAE national team was prepared to support the national team through a campaign led by the Football Federation under the slogan "in front of Yalabid", in order to mobilize the largest number of fans behind the team.
Zaccheroni renewed the blood of the team with new elements, with nine players will appear for the first time in the tournament out of 23 players were selected in the final list of the event. Ismail Ahmed's participation in the meeting was not yet determined.
Zaccheroni counts on the elements of experience and youth, such as captain Ismail Matar, goalkeeper Ali Khasif, Al-Haddeen Ali Mabkhout, Ahmed Khalil, Ismail Al Hammadi and Ahmed Khalil, and young elements Ali Salmeen, Saif Rashed and Khalafan Mubarak.
Al-Abyad has set up eight camps, during which he played 18 games.
