The experience of the World Cup and the rebounds is an Oman weapon in the “Appendix”

The Omani national team coach, Portuguese Carlos Kirosh, has great World Cup experiences that polished his style in dealing with sensitive matches, as well as his distinction in preparing players psychologically and mentally, and showed these capabilities during his leadership of various environments from South America, Europe and the Middle East, which are the features that Kirosh relies on in his endeavor to return to the World Cup tournaments, from the Asian World Cup, from the Asian Appendix Gate The decisive in front of Qatar and Al -Abyad of the UAE, in a struggle for the direct qualification card to the 2026 World Cup.

Kirosh is characterized by defensive organization and the idea of ​​counterattacks, and his competitors, to be careful in the backlines, especially since the national team coach, Romanian Olario Cosmin, will have the opportunity to get to know the tactical style that Kirosh will adopt in his first match against Qatar scheduled tomorrow, before confronting the “Al -Abyad” this 11th, in a meeting of great importance to the white before his match against the team, the team, the team, the team. Qatari on this 14th.

The long training years of training Kirosh refined a strict coach and a long -term vision, which qualified him to become one of the most coaches in international matches with the teams, as he moved between the training of South Africa in 2000 and his leadership to the World Cup 2002, then the Portugal team since 2008 and qualified with him to the 2010 World Cup, but his longest period was with the Iran team, where he led him to the World Cup in 2014 and 2018 And 2022, as he took over Colombia between 2019 and 2020, and Egypt between 2021 and 2022, and led the “Pharaohs” to the African Nations Cup final, before he briefly supervised Qatar in 2023, all the way to its current mission with the Oman national team.

Kirosh is known as his tactical discipline on the field, and his preference is organized and balanced defensive, with high tactical elasticity, and mostly depends on the formations (4-1-4-1) or (4-2-3-1), and the transformation of it to (4-1-3-2), which makes his opponents are required to be cautious about the quick counterattacks.

The Omani team preferred to participate in the Central Asian Union Cup, which was started by Al-Ahmar with a draw with Uzbekistan (1-1), then beat Kyrgyzstan (2-1), in a match that embodied the approach that Kirosh adopts in motivating his players over the fighting spirit, after scoring the goals of the tie and winning in stoppage time, and the team continued its career by beating Turkmen with the same result, then the tie with India, then the tie with India (1-1) Before losing a penalty shootout (2-3) in the match specifying the third and fourth places.

On the other side, the UAE teams and Qatar fought friendly experiences, which resulted in the victory of “Al-Abyad” over Syria (3-1) and then Bahrain (1-0), while the Qatari team, led by Spaniard Julien Lopetegui, was lost to a loss against Russia (1-4), before drawing with Bahrain (2-2).

For his part, sports analyst Badr Hareb told «Emirates Today»: “The expected meetings in the attachment are (Gulf derby) that is dominated by the offensive nature,” stressing that “Al -Abyad is required in his match against Oman to find balance and realism between offensive pressure and defensive caution.”

He explained: «Working on the psychological side is very important, and I see that the Oman national team led by an expert coach the size of Kirosh plays with less pressure compared to the host team Qatar, the Asian champion twice in the last version of the World Cup, in a rehearsal that paved the way for the disclosure of the papers before entering (Al -Abyad) in confronting it in front of Oman.

He added: «According to the technical ingredients, the teams of Qatar and the UAE have a list of players with high technical experience, and those with greater market values ​​compared to their counterparts in the Omani team, and from here comes the importance of psychological preparation and the failure to neglect the defensive side when facing Oman, whose coach depends a lot on defensive closure and launching rapid counterattacks.

He explained: «Kirosh in his previous experiences led the Iranian national team to the World Cup on more than one occasion with professional and technical players, while his current experience with Oman is based on his ability to motivate his players and extract the maximum as possible of them, as we touched that in the Kyrgyzstan match in which the Omani team turned his delay to a victory in stoppage time.

He concluded: «In the (Gulf Derbat) fortunes equal to everyone, and we must deal with the next two matches as we deal with the cups of cups .. Cosmin is an experienced coach and an expert in how to manage such confrontations, not to rush towards early registration and then retreat, because this may open the way for the competitor to return to the result.

Badr Hareb:

• The expected meetings in the attachment are “Gulf derby”, which is predominantly offensive.

• “White” is required in front of Oman to find balance and realism between offensive pressure and defensive caution.