The national team faces Syria .. The third friendly match in the era of Cosmin

At 8:30 pm today, the first national football team will play an important friendly match against its Syrian team, as part of its preparations for playing its matches against Amman and Qatar, on October 11 and 14, in the eligibility qualified to the 2026 World Cup, knowing that the Emirati white will also play a second friendly match against Bahrain, on the eighth of this month, on the same stadium.

The team prepared well for this match, through the daily exercises it conducted at the Dubai Police Officers Club stadium, which lasted for about 10 days, during which the technical staff focused on the physical and tactical aspects, amid seriousness, discipline and great commitment by the players, each of whom seeks to prove his presence within the starting lineup of the team during the next stage.

This experience for the national team comes during its current internal camp in Dubai, which started on August 25, with the participation of 27 players who were chosen in the new list that also witnessed the inclusion of Al -Ahly Youth goalkeeper Hamad Al -Maqbali, before joining the Olympic team that played, yesterday, a match against the Game team at the beginning of his matches in the qualifiers for the Asian Cup under 23 years.

Under the leadership of the Romanian coach Olario Cosmin, the technical staff, under the leadership of the Romanian coach, Cosmin, will achieve the maximum technical benefit from this experience against a team like the Syrian team.

This is the third friendly match for the national team during the Roman coach Cosmin, after he had played during his external camp in Austria last July, two friendly matches against the Italian Lechi teams, and won 3-1, and in front of the Bravo Slovenian team and won 2-1.

It is expected that the technical staff will give the opportunity for a large number of players to participate in these matches, with the aim of identifying their capabilities and technical levels, in the framework of its efforts to reach the stability in the squad that will play its matches against the Oman and Qatar teams.

Kozmin had said, in previous media statements, that the technical staff of the team chose to play amicably against the teams of Syria and Bahrain, given that the style of each of them is the closest to the style of playing the teams of Oman and Qatar.

The UAE and Syria met on many official and friendly footballing occasions and the last meeting that brought them together was in the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, as Al -Abyad won two goals with two clean goals scored by Caio Canido and Yahya Al -Ghassani.

And the UAE “Al -Abyad”, in the last five confrontations that brought the two teams to win two games, and a tie in the same, while the Syrian team won one confrontation.

On the other hand, the Syrian national team, led by Spanish coach Jose Lana, and includes in its ranks a group of distinguished elements, in turn seeks to benefit from the confrontation of “Al -Abyad” in preparation for the upcoming entitlements that await him, especially in terms of running the Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers, as the Syrian team will face its Myanmar team during the current month, in the decisive confrontation and forth next month, at the level The group at the end of the first leg in the Asian qualifiers in search of a card to qualify for the 2027 Asian Cup Finals, knowing that after this match, the Syrian team will go to Qatar in preparation for the Kuwaiti national team to meet next Monday in Doha.