
The list of the Qatari team announced by Spanish coach Luis Garcia on Thursday to confront North Korea and Kyrgyzstan on 20 and 25 this month, in the third stage of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in the United States, Mexico and Canada, witnessed wide changes with the return of balances.
Al -Annabi is preparing for the seventh and eighth rounds of the first group competitions under the slogan of the necessity of winning, in order to maintain its remaining hopes in the competition to qualify directly to the World Cup by occupying one of the first or second places in the group.
Al -Annabi is the fourth with 7 points, nine points from the leaders of the leaders and West from the second and three Uzbek team from the third UAE team, while Kyrgyzstan and North Korea come in fifth and sixth places with three points and two points in a row.
The victory in both games will be a requirement to compensate for the fall against the UAE team in the last round 0-5 in Dubai, and to erase the negative image that appeared in the Gulf 26 in Kuwait after leaving the first round.
Garcia returned both Brazilian Emmalson Junior, who played two games with his predecessor and his compatriot “Tinetin” Marx Lopes, along with inviting experience elements such as defenders Abdel Karim Hassan, Khokhi Boualam and goalkeeper Saad Al -Shaib, alongside Ahmed Suhail and Hazem Ahmed.
The coach also summoned Pedro Miguel and Lucas Mendes who returned from the injury, and for the first time the Arab goalkeeper Mahmoud Abu Nada and Al -Rayyan player Murad Naji and Mohamed Siraj.
Here is the list of 30 players:
In the goalkeeper Saad Al -Shayeb, Meshaal Barshim (Al -Sad), and Salah Zakaria (Al -Duhail), Mahmoud Abu Nada (Al -Arabi).
In the defense line: Ahmed Suhail, Khokhi Boualam, Pedro Miguel, Tariq Salman (Al -Sad) Abdul Karim Hassan, Lucas Munidis (Al -Wakra), Hammam Al -Amin (Al -Duhail), Murad Naji and Hazem Ahmed (Al -Rayyan), Abdullah Youssef (Al -Gharafa).
In the midfield: Mustafa Tariq (Al -Sad), Abdel Aziz Hatem, Muhammad Siraj (Al -Rayyan), Adelson Junior, Abdullah Al -Ahraq (Al -Duhail), Ahmed Fathi, Jassim Jaber (Al -Arabi), Asim Madbo, Ahmed Al -Janhi (Al -Gharafa), Al -Hashemi Al -Hassan (Spanish Corconial).
The offensive line: Akram Afif, Youssef Abdel -Razzaq (Al -Sad), Muhammad Montari (Al -Gharafa), Al -Moez Ali (Al -Duhail), Ahmed Alaa (Al -Arabi), Ahmed Al -Rawi (Al -Rayyan).