Doha: Qatar Football Association (QFA) announced a 27-player squad for the 2023 U-20 AFC Asian Cup to be held in Uzbekistan from March 1-18 next year.The top four teams in the tournament will qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Indonesia from May 20 to June 11. Qatar is in Group B along with Australia, runners up of the 2010 edition, Iran and Vietnam, the 2016 semifinalists.Qatar, who won the 2014 edition in Myanmar, qualified for the tournament as leaders of Group B in the AFC qualifiers played earlier this year.THE SQUAD: Ahmed Riyad, Ali Mohamed, Shanin al-Abdulrahman (all Duhail SC), Mostafa al-Sayed, Sami Mazen, Ibrahim Mohamed (all Al Rayyan), Al Hashmi al-Hussein, Amir Hassan, Mohamed Khalid (all Al Arabi), Mahdi Salem, Talal al-Shuaibi (both Al Sadd), Jassim al-Sharshani, Eissa al-Najjar (both Al Ahli), Yousef Tariq, Nabil Irfan (both Al Wakrah), Anas Abdulsalam, Ahmed Haganeh (both Al Shamal), Awab al-Awad (Al Sailiya), Mohamed Mansour (Al Gharafa), Abubakr Mohamed (Al Khor), Fares Saeed, Mubarak Shanan, Hassan al-Ghareeb, Mostafa Essam (all Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, Spain), Ahmed al-Rawi, Rashid al-Abdullah (both AD Alcorcon, Spain), Chalpan Abdullah (KAS Eupen, Belgium).
December 27, 2022 | 10:43 PM