Saudi Arabia NT's squad for the May Holland camp has been announced :- Omar AlGhamdi, Mohammed AlDeayea, Abdulaziz AlKhatran, Khaled Aziz, Nawaf AlTemyat, Mohammed Shalhoub, Sami AlJaber, Yaser Alqahtani, Mohammed Alanbar, Mustafa Mal'akah, Hussien AbdulGhani, Naif AlQadi, Mohammed Masead, Malik Mouath, Mabrouk Zayed, Hamed Montashri, Ruda Tukar, Osama AlMowaled, Ahmed AlDokhi, Saoud Kariri, Mohammed Nour, Mohammed Ameen, Ahmed AlBahry, Saed AlHarthi. I was hoping for Mohammed Khojah to be there instead of Mustafa Mal'akah, he impressed in the final. I think this was ready before the final, too bad. On May 15, the 23 players will officially be announced, with two friendlies, Belgium and Togo before it. Bakita has also announced that he wanted a 5th friendly, one in Bad Nuhiem, so the Saudi FA is now looking for a team. So expect to see the rumours spread again.
Nothing suprising really...Good luck is all I have to say. But I am curious who they will select to play.
I think this time Paquetá will show what he wants with the true 11. I read an interview here in Brasil and he talked about the bad results and expectatives.He said a true thing,indeed : "We had 2 choices : Play against poor squads or play against strong squads to show that Saudi football don't need to afraid traditional NT.I made the seconde option." Results don't say noting when he' trying to see new formations and players,to get them ready for some diferent styles of play and et cetera.I think he knows what he's doing.
Not that surprised, but dissapointed to see the following have not been picked: Manaf Abushgeir Zaid al-Muwallad Mohammed Khoja Eissa al-Meheyyani Ahmad Autef
Holy shit!! No Ibrahim Swayed or BuShgair??? WTF?? The only one I wanted to get picked and wasnt was Abdullah Al-Jam3aan. I kinda knew he wasnt gonna get picked tho.
Suwaed is no where near his performance. Manaf Abu Shgaer not be choosed is weird though, Abdullah Jumaan is impossible, I remember when he was alone with the Irish goalie last world cup, boom he shot it towards the corner flag!