THE SQUAD

GOALKEEPERS:

Saad Alsheeb, Meshaal Barsham, Yousef Hassan

DEFENDERS:

Pedro Miguel, Musaab Khidir, Tarek Salman, Bassam Al-Rawi, Boualem Khoukhi, Abdelkarim

Hassan, Homam Ahmed, Jassem Gaber

MIDFIELDERS:

Ali Asad, Assim Modibo, Mohammed Waad, Salem AlHajri, Moustafa Tarek, Karim

Boudiaf, Abdelaziz Hatim, Ismail

Mohamad

FORWARDS:

Naif Alhadhrami, Ahmed

Alaaeldin, Hassan Al-Haydos, Khalid Muneer, Akram Afif, Almoez Ali, Mohamed Muntari

COACH:

Felix Sanchez charge on the field of play will be captain Hassan Al Haydos who has played more than 160 matches for the national side since making his debut for Al Sadd more than 15 years ago. Affi, Hassan and Al Haydos are teammates at Al Sadd also.

Defender Pedro Miguel, midfielder Bassam Al Rawi and goalkeeper Saad Al Sheeb will provide strength and experience when Qatar take on Ecuador (Nov 20), Senegal (Nov 25) and The Netherlands (Nov 29) in their Group A clashes.

In the last four years, Sanchez has kept his players extremely busy with the Qatar side featuring in Copa America and taking part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup where they played the semi-finals last year.

A series of friendlies in the last one year have kept the players in match practice ahead of what will be their debut at the game's showpiece event.

Qatar's young World Cup squad holds promise. Most of the current national team players have been under the mentorship of Sanchez – who guided Qatar to 2014 AFC Asian Cup U-20 glory in Myanmar where they beat North Korea in the final – for almost eight years. Since then, Sanchez has single handedly shaped the careers of star players of the AFC Asian Cup triumph in 2019. n