Bahrain set sights on West Asian futsal gold | THE DAILY TRIBUNE

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Bahrain’s nationwide futsal crew are set to kick off their medal bids tomorrow within the fourth West Asian Soccer Federation (WAFF) Males’s Futsal Championship, going down in Kuwait.

The Bahrainis are in Group B for the competitors’s preliminary spherical and they’re going to tackle Lebanon of their opening fixture.

It’s scheduled for a 4 pm kick-off, Bahrain time, tomorrow and it will likely be performed at Al Naser Membership’s enviornment in Kuwait Metropolis.

The nationals travelled to the Kuwaiti capital final evening after spending a number of days again within the Kingdom, having lately returned from the GCC Video games the place they received the boys’s futsal bronze medals.

Oman and the UAE are the opposite two groups within the Kingdom’s division.

They’re scheduled to face off within the late match beginning at 7.30 pm.

The championship is scheduled to start right this moment with two matches in Group A, which options Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and hosts Kuwait.

The Saudis and Palestinians go head-to-head of their opening fixture, whereas Iraq and Kuwait lock horns within the day’s different sport.

Following their match tomorrow towards their Lebanese counterparts, Bahrain performs Oman on Tuesday after which takes on the UAE of their ultimate group project on Thursday, which can even be the final day of this present stage.

Following a single round-robin, the highest two nations from every of the 2 teams transfer on to the semi-finals.

Coached by Brazilian Lino Gomes, the boys’s crew have made a number of adjustments to their line-up from the one which competed on the GCC Video games.

The squad is now comprised of 14 gamers, specifically Ahmed Abdulnabi, Hamed Abdulla, Ammar Ali, Mohamed Abdulla, Jassam Anan, Saleh Sanjar, Hasan Marzooq, Mohamed Alsandi, Ahmed Antar, Falah Abbas, Salman Muhammad, Ali Aloraibi, Mohamed Sayed Abbas and Sayed Fadhel Mahfoodh.

The event’s official technical assembly was held yesterday by organisers, with the presence of representatives from the taking part nationwide groups.

Bahrain’s participation within the WAFF championship will assist them gear up for his or her marketing campaign later this summer season within the AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2022, which is able to happen this September, additionally in Kuwait.

The Bahrainis are in Group B for that occasion alongside Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

There are 4 teams in all for the competitors’s preliminary spherical.

Group A options Kuwait, Iraq, Thailand and Oman; Group C contains Iran, Lebanon, Chinese language Taipei and Indonesia; and Group D consists of Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.

Girls’s futsal In the meantime, Bahrain’s ladies’s futsal crew are additionally set to compete of their WAFF Girls’s Futsal Championship, scheduled to be held in Jahez, Saudi Arabia, from June 16 to 24.

The Bahraini ladies have been drawn together with Palestine, Iraq and the UAE for his or her competitors.

The opposite group contains Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Bahrain’s first sport might be on opening day towards Iraq, after which they play Palestine two days later.

Their ultimate group fixture will then be towards the UAE on June 20.

The highest two from every division advance to the ultimate 4, that are scheduled for June 22.

The bronze and gold medal video games will then happen on the competitors’s final day