Qatar rest seniors, name young squad for Gulf Cup

The Qatar Football Association (QFA) has announced a new-look national squad for the 25th Gulf Cup to be held in Basra, Iraq, from January 6-19, 2023.
Many of the senior players who appeared at the 2022 FIFA World Cup have been rested while Portuguese Bruno Pinheiro has been named the coach of the 27-member squad.
Those rested include Hassan al-Haydos, Akram Afif, Almoez Ali, Abdulaziz Hatem, Karim Boudiaf, Abdelkarim Hassan, Boualam Khoukhi, Bassam al-Rawi, Saad al-Sheeb and Pedro Miguel. Qatar, three-time winners of the Gulf Cup, are in Group B, also featuring Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Group A includes Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

Squad: Meshaal Barsham, Yousef Abdullah, Tarek Salman, Abdullah al-Yazidi, Faisal Mohamed, Mustafa Meshaal, Mohamed Waad, Yousuf Abdurisag, Hashim Ali, Salem al-Hajri, Ali Asad (Al Sadd), Ismaeel Mohamed, Shehab El Laithi, Mohamed Ayash, Diab Haroun, Assim Madibo, Mohamed Muntari, Abdulrahman Fahmy (Al Duhail), Naif al-Hadhrami, Tamim Mansour (Al Rayyan), Homam al-Amin, Amro Suraj (Al Gharafa), Ahmed Fadel, Khaled Muneer, Hazem Ahmed (Al Wakrah), Mahmoud Abunada, Jassim Jaber (Al Arabi).
Coach: Bruno Pinheiro.