Spanish Lopetegui, coach of the Qatar national team

In an effort to lead the Qatari team to the World Cup Finals for the first time of the qualifying gate, the Spanish Football Association, Khuln Lopetegui, appointed the coach of the national team, according to what was announced on its official website on the “X” platform Thursday.

The Qatari Federation published a video in which Lopetegui appeared at its headquarters in Doha, in which he spoke, saying, “I am ready”, while a source inside the federation added to Agence France -Presse that “the contract period is applied until June 2027.”

Al -Annabi relies again on the Spanish school this time through Lopetegui, who has a busy record, as he previously led his country to the World Cup Russia 2018, before he was said on the eve of the start of the world wedding, after Real Madrid announced to sign him.

The training period of the former international goalkeeper of the Royal Club did not last long, as it was dismissed after a few months, and then Seville (2019-2022) was led, then Wolverhampton (2022-2023) and finally the last citizen West Ham United that dismissed him in
Last January.

Lopetegui, 58, will succeed his compatriot Luis Garcia, who took over the mission last year, on the eve of the participation in the Gulf 26, after the dismissal of his compatriot Marx Lopes “Tintin” who led Al -Annabi to win his second title in the 2023 Asian Cup.

The decline in the results of the “support” in the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup by scoring only 7 points in six rounds, incurring heavy losses against Iran 1-4 in Dubai, the UAE 1-3 in Doha and 0-5 in Al Ain to the dismissal of “Tintin” and appoint his assistant Garcia as his successor.

Garcia was unable during his brief period at the head of the technical management of Al-Annabi to achieve the desired results, as he bid farewell to 26 Gulfs from the first round, before he officially lost his hopes in reserving a card directly to the World Cup, after receiving a painful loss against Kyrgyzstan 1-3 in Beskik followed his sweeping North Korea in Doha 5-1.

Qatar aspires to be in the World Cup for the first time in its history through the qualifiers after hosting the last version 2022 on its soil when it came out hidden in Hanin after it incurred three consecutive losses against Ecuador, Senegal and the Netherlands.

Before the final rounds of the qualifiers next June, the Qatari team is fourth in the first group with 10 points behind the third UAE (13) and ahead of Kyrgyzstan (6) and the sixth North Korea (2).

Iran, which booked the first card from the group, leads the ranking with 20 points, three points behind Uzbekistan.

Lopetegui will be the leadership of Qatar to reserve a seat in the qualifying attaché of the World Cup, as it hosts Iran on June 5 before he is a guest of Uzbekistan in Tashkent on the tenth of it.

In addition to the qualification of the first and second places in the three groups directly to the World Cup, the Asian Attaché for the third and fourth teams will be guaranteed to qualify as it will be divided into two groups, each group includes 3 teams that compete with the league divided system from one stage.

The two teams with first place in each group qualify directly to the World Cup, while the two teams with second place compete with an attachment match in order to determine the team that represents the Asian continent in the continental attachment.