Al -Abyad bid farewell to the “Gulf of the Players” with two draws and a loss

The UAE team bid farewell to the Gulf Cup soccer championship, held in Kuwait, after the loss he was exposed to, the day before yesterday, against its Omani team with a clean goal, to freeze its score at only two points, after he tied in two previous games against both Qatar without goals And in front of Kuwait with the same result.

The team played in the first group, which included the teams of Kuwait, Qatar and Oman, and the second group included the teams of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen, while the curtain falls on the first edition of the tournament, today, through the final match.

The Emirati “Al -Abyad” played during the tournament with a squad that included a large number of the most prominent former stars in the team, but he failed to reach advanced roles.

The team opened its career in the championship by meeting its Qatari team in the first round, then confronting its Kuwaiti team in the second round, before concluding its career by meeting the Omani team.

The Emirates team included a group of old players. The national coach, Juma Rabie, and his assistant Walid Obaid, adopted in the starting lineup in most matches on both Majid Nasser in the goalkeeper, and in the defense Youssef Jaber, Muhannad Al -Anzi, Jumaa Khater and Abdullah Mal Allah, and in the middle Sibat Khater, Abdul Rahim Jumaa and Ismail Matar, and in the attack Ahmed Khamis, Salem Khamis and Faisal Khalil, along with the presence of the guardian Veteran Walid Salem and the veteran players Hilal Saeed, Saeed Al -Kass, Bashir Saeed, Hassan Ali Ibrahim, Nasser Khamis, Mundhir Ali, Rami Salam and Muhammad Sorour.

For his part, the former international player and the current football coach, Nawaf Mubarak, said that the participation of the old stars in the Emirates team in this Gulf event is a tribute to them by the brothers in the State of Kuwait who organized this wonderful event.

Mubarak added to «Emirates Today»: “Regardless of the technical results and who will win the title of the championship, watching the old and Gulf football stars in this event is in itself a great pleasure and gain, and the presence of these stars in this event brings them back memories of time Beautiful ».

He continued: “Although these players move away from playing the ball for a long time, their technical touches are still present.”