Hello, I am trying to compile some information on the Saudi Arabia World Cup squad, unfortunately FIFA's website seems to have about a hundred different spellings for each player. I have found from a few websites some details on certain players and have managed to come up with this list. Does anyone know a good English language website for news about the Saudi national side? Are there any players I have listed below who are actually the same person!?! I assumed Saleh Al-Saqri and Safeh Al-Sagri were the same person. Thanks for any help anyone can give! GK AL-SHARIFI, Mohammed Al-Nasr GK ZAID, Mabrouk Al-Ittihad 11/2/79 GK BABKR, Mohammed Al-Nasr 15/1/73 GK AL-MUGREN, Rashed Al-Shabab 1/7/77 GK AL-EISA, Hamad GK AL-ABDULLAH, Saheb DF AL-DOSARI, Ahmed Dukhi Al-Hilal 25/10/76 DF FALLATHA, Redha Al-Ittihad 29/11/75 DF AL-MONTASHARI, Hamad Al-Ittihad 22/6/82 DF AL-QADI, Naif Al-Ahly 3/4/79 DF AL-KHAIBARI, Saoud Abdulaziz Al-Ahly 12/8/80 DF AL-ABDALI, Ali Al-Ahly 1/7/79 DF SULIMANI, Hussein Al-Ahly, EGY 23/1/77 DF HAGAWI, Jaber Al-Qadisiya DF AL-ABDULLA, Saheb Al-Ahly 1/7/77 DF AL-HARBI, Osama 16/5/84 DF JAHDALI, Walid Al-Ahly 1/6/82 DF FALLATA, Fahad Al-Shabab 12/2/82 DF ALTHAGAFI, Mansour Al-Nasr 14/1/79 DF AL-BAHRI, Ahmed Al-Ittifaq 18/9/80 MF AL-SHAHRANI, Ibrahim Al-Ittihad 21/7/74 MF NOOR, Mohammed 26/2/78 MF KHARIRI, Saud Ali 3/7/80 MF ABUSHGEER, Manaf Al-Ittihad MF OWAIRAN, Khamis Al-Ittihad 8/9/73 MF AL-SAQRI, Saleh Al-Ittihad 23/1/79 MF AL-JANOUBI, Abdulaziz Al-Nasr 20/7/74 MF AL-GIZANI, Waleed Al-Ahly 10/10/82 MF AL-SHLOUB, Mohammed Al-Hilal 8/12/80 MF AL-DOSARI, Saeed Al-Ahly MF AUTEF, Abdoh Al-Shabab 2/4/84 MF AL-GHANNAM, Abdullatif Al-Shabab 16/8/85 MF AL-SUWAILH, Ahmed Al-Hilal 14/5/86 MF AL-SAEED, Mishal Al-Ittihad MF AL-HARTHI, Meshal Al-Najma MF AL-SAHRANI, Hussein MF AL-HARTHI, Saad Al-Nasr 8/7/82 MF AL-JASSAM, Taiseer Al-Ahly 25/7/84 MF AL-MOHAMMADI, Saleh Al-Ahly 10/7/80 MF AL-THAKER, Khaled MF SHARIFY, Hadi MF AL-SHAMRANI, Nassir Al-Wahda 3/1/83 MF AL-KHATHRAN, Abdulaziz 31/7/73 MF HAIDAR, Mohammed ST AL-QAHTANI, Yasser Al-Qadisiya 10/10/82 ST AL-DOSARI, Bander Tamim Al-Nasr 5/3/82 ST AL-MESHAL, Talal Saeed Al-Ahly 7/6/78 ST AL-BASHAH, Yusri Al-Ittifaq 20/7/79 ST AL-OTAIBI, Marzouq Al-Ittihad 7/11/75 ST SULAIMANI, Omar ST AL-DOSARI, Abdullah Jamaan Al-Hilal 10/11/77 ST KHOJAH, Mohammad ST AL-BISHI, Abdulrahman Al-Nasr 1/7/82 ST AL-JABER, Sami Al-Hilal 11/11/72
DF AL-ABDULLA, Saheb Al-Ahly 1/7/77 and GK AL-ABDULLAH, Saheb He is a defender not a goal keeper. Wait he could be a MF player to. As for english sites, I dont know dedicated english sites, but www.alzaeem.net has an english forum. If u dont mind me asking, why gather this detailed info.
Basically because I am a stats nerd, but also because I work for a football magazine and want to make sure that we can produce the most correct and comprehensive World Cup 2006 guide! Bugs me when magazine's have lame coverage of the less well known teams, i.e. most magazine's will have Al-Jaber as the main star for Saudi Arabia as he is the only one they know, despite the fact that Mabrouk Zaid or Yasser Al-Qahtani are arguably the players to keep an eye on in Germany.
This was the squad for the last set of internationals (I've removed players who were later dropped like Hussein Abdulghani etc...): Goalkeepers: Mabrouk Zayed - Ittihad Hassan alOtaibi - Hilal Mohammed Khoja - Ohod Defence: Hamad alMontasheri - Ittihad Redha Tokar [Falatta] - Ittihad Nayef alQadi - Ahli Hadi Sehreifi - Nassr Ahmad alBahri - Ittifaq Abdulaziz alKhathran - Hilal Midfield: Khaled Aziz - Hilal Manaf AbuShgeir - Ittihad Saheb alAbdullah - Ahli Saud Kariri - Ittihad Mohammed aShalhoub - Hilal Taiseer alJassem - Ahli Bandar Tamim - Nassr Ibrahim Suwayyed [aShahrani] - Ittihad Mohammed Amin [Haidar] - Ittihad (although naturally a striker) Attack: Yasser alQahtani - Qadessia [moving to Hilal] Sami alJaber - Hilal Saad alHarthi - Nassr
All the team is really stars, but the important and main players are Sami AlJaber, Yasser AlQahtani, Hamad AlMontashri, and Mabrouk Zayed.
Also Talal AlMeshal (Ahli) for Attack, he was on the team in the last 2 games but didn't participate yet.
That's right, he was a late call up. As for important players. To me, the most important player in the team right now is Saud Kariri. He controls the midfield.
I wonder if Temyat will get a call up, he seems to be close to a hundred percent and he scored a great goal against Al Ahli in the Arab CL...