The Saudi coach is making sentences before the World Cup qualifiers

The first Saudi national team coach, Herve Renard, 56, announced the list that will depend on it, for the next two confrontations against China and Japan, as part of the decisive Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States of America, Canada and Mexico.

Renard made wholesale changes on the first Saudi national team list, after he excluded 13 players, who relied on them in the matches of the past Australia and Indonesia, in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers as well, which were held last November, and after which the French coach received many sharp criticisms, due to unexpected results.

The Saudi national team coach was excluded from; Muhammad Al -Yami, Abdul Rahman Al -Sanabi, Yasser Al -Shahrani, Ali Al -Blaihi, Abdul -Ilah Al -Omari, Saad Al -Nasser, Abdul -Ilah Al -Maliki, Abdullah Al -Khaibri, Salman Al -Faraj, Sultan Al -Ghannam, Ayman Fallatah, Abdullah Radif, Saleh Al -Shehri, after he worked as a detailed study on them with his technical staff, according to the local media.

On the other hand, the Saudi national team included new stars, and they are; Abdullah Al Salem, Nawaf Al -Aqidi, Mashari Sinior, Hassan Kadash, Jihad Zekry, Saad Al Musa, Nawaf Bouchel, Ziyad Al -Juhani, Ali Majrashi, Turki Al -Ammar, Ayman Yahya, Muhannad Al Saad, Ahmed Al -Ghamdi, who hope to provide the desired addition in the confrontation against China, March 20, at the “First Park” stadium in Riyadh, within the competitions of the seventh round of the Asian qualifiers He qualified for the World Cup 2026, before heading to the capital, Tokyo, in order to go to the meeting against Japan in the eighth round five days later.

The Saudi national team’s list shows that Renard made the amendments in several centers, and hopes to find his way to these choices, and amend the “green” path in the qualifiers, in an effort to qualify directly to the World Cup, as a goal that the French coach put himself with the Saudi national team. Over the past months, there has been a crisis in some centers, in which “Al -Akhdar” does not find real support, including the goalkeeper, before the recently announced list witnessed the summons of four guards, most of whom participate at least regularly.

For a short period, the guard center was a headache in the head of the technical staff of the Saudi national team, as all league clubs relied on foreign guards, before some recently started giving the opportunity to the local goalkeeper. With his exit from Al -Nasr Club, loaned to his counterpart Al -Fateh, the international goalkeeper, Nawaf Al -Aqidi, succeeded in providing distinctive levels, which brought the memories of brilliance, which led him to the first goalkeeper seat in the ranks of “Al -Alami”, in light of the injury of the former goalkeeper, Colombian David Osbina, before the arrival of the Brazilian Pinto.

Al -Aqidi re -discovered himself with the shirt of the conquest, and although the team is competing for the survival, the 25 -year -old made this situation an important opportunity, in order to test himself and restore confidence in the best way, while Al -Qadr was finally fair to the goalkeeper, the goalkeeper, Mashari Sinior (24 years), and he got an opportunity for international participation, after he continued to shine since the last gathering of the Saudi national team, in which he was not among the Renard options, while it included choices The French coach is a look at the future with the inclusion of the young Al -Ittihad goalkeeper, Hamid Al -Shanqeeti (19 years), who starred with the Saudi U -20 team, in the Asian Youth Championship, and led him to the final match with a heroic performance.

As for the Al -Qadisiyah goalkeeper, Ahmed Al -Kassar (33 years), he is a usual face in the Saudi national team’s options, and the owner of experiences, and his presence can be important at this stage, which means that the goalkeeping center is no longer a major crisis for coach Renard, in light of the abundance of alternatives this time, unlike the Gulf Championship, for example, in which the options were among all guards who do not participate with their clubs.

⚪🟢 | Here are the options of our coach@Herve_renard_hrFor the national team list for China and Japan 🇯🇵 within the final qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. pic.twitter.com/r3gimuauyb

– The Saudi national team (@saudint) March 12, 2025