Futsal national team off to Thailand before AFC qualifiers

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Sunday, October 29th 2017 10:28 AM

  Doha: Coach Ahmed Al Mannai has called up a list of 16 players to represent Qatar’s national Futsal team in the AFC Futsal Championship 2018 qualifying group.     Qatar will take on Jordan and Lebanon in the group taking place from 8 November until the 11th of the same month.     The squad arrived yesterday in Bangkok for a pre-tournament training camp where they play three friendlies against local teams.     Teams competing in the qualifiers were divided into four zones – East, ASEAN, South & Central and West where they were seeded within their zones based on the AFC Futsal Championship Uzbekistan 2016 ranking.     In the East Zone and Central & South Zone, seven teams from each zone were drawn into two groups of four and three teams respectively.     The Islamic Republic of Iran emerged Champions in the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship with Uzbekistan the Runners-up while Thailand and Vietnam finished third and fourth respectively.     Squad:  Saad Al Shahrani, Hazem Sami, Hadi Al Buraidi, Arhama Al Kuwari, Mohammed Al Ahbabi, Saeed Bloushi, Abdulrahman Qahtan, Amro Taha, Rashid Al Kubaisi, Issa Masoudi, Mohammed Mania, Ahmed Khalil, Talal Al Nuaimi, Saleh Shamia, Abdulaziz Shihab and Mohammed Munner.