“The Olympic White” bid farewell to the West Asian championship from the first match

The Olympic team bid farewell to the competition in the West Asian Football Championship under 23 years, in its sixth edition currently held in the Omani capital, Muscat, from the first match to play during the championship that lasts until the 25th of this month, as the Olympic Al -Abyad lost, the day before yesterday, in front of its Bahraini team with two goals against a goal in the first round of the second group, during the match that was held at the Sib Sports Stadium in Muscat to support the competition, In return, the Bahraini team qualified for this victory to the semi -finals.

Although he scored the first goal in the match in the first minute by player Junior Nadia, the Olympic White did not maintain its progress, after the Bahraini team managed to score the equalizer «21» through the player Saud Mohsen, before the Bahraini team scored the penalty shootout goal in the second half through the player Abdul Rahman Al -Khayyat «92».

Although the team’s list included distinguished elements of the players, including players who obtained Emirati citizenship, such as Junior Ndiay and Solomon Soso, next to Yannick Muller and Anthony Khayat, he failed to go away in this tournament.

The training of the Uruguayan coach Marcelo Broalli, who was contracted in February 2024, is being led by the former Spanish coach, Dennis Silva.

Broalli has a distinguished biography in the field of training, among them the training of the Uruguayan youth team and achieved with him and the South American Cup U -20 Championship 2023, and in the same year he led his country to crown the World Youth U -20 World Cup title, in the championship that was held in Argentina after beating Italy with a goal without charge.

Eight teams participate in the tournament: the Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Kuwait.

According to the official website of the West Asian Football Association, the tournament system stipulated the distribution of the eight teams to four groups, as each group included two teams so that the team meets each group in one match between them in the first round, and the four winning teams from these confrontations qualify to the semi -finals, and then the two winners move to the final match, provided that the teams that did not exceed these roles by playing to determine the positions from The third to the eighth.

It is noteworthy that the Olympic team had also bid farewell to the Asian U -23 Cup finals, which was held in Qatar in April 2024, after participation that is the weakest without getting any point in the championship and finished fourth and last in the ranking of his group.

The list of the players of the Olympic team participating in the West Asian Championship included: Saeed Al -Muqdami, Adly Hatem, Ali Abdullah Al -Saffar, Marzouq Rashid Al -Badawi in the goalkeeper, in addition to the players Mubarak Bani Zama, Mansour Al -Menhali, Khamis Al -Mansoori, Youssef Al Marzouqi, Zayed Khamis, Mansour Al -Balushi, Hamdan Baswaidan, Jamal Al Saadi, Abdulaziz Al Sharifi, Solomon Soso, Ali Abdulaziz Al -Manhali, Matar Zaal, Hazem Mohamed, Anthony Khayat, Muhammad Khalil, Eid Al Hammadi, Maid Al Kas, Saif Salem, Ghaith Abdullah, Yannik Muller, Issa Khalfan, Junior Ndiay.