MALAGA, Spain: Ivory Coast beat Qatar 3-2 in an international friendly on Monday. Qatar juniors, coached by Oscar Cano, is currently training in Malaga in preparation for this year's AFC U-19 Asian ‎Cup to be held in Bahrain. Muwafaq Awad and Bassam Hisham scored for Qatar in the first half. Qatar will now play against Costa Rica on March 23. Cano's boys last month held a training camp in Morocco. Cano headed the squad during a similar training camp in Morocco in February. Qatar are the defending Asian champions having won the tournament in October 2014. Squad: Mohammed Al Mogseeb, Ahmad Fahd, Kamal Hatem, Ghassan Ali,‎Hussein Issa, Meshaal, Abdul Rehman, Nasser, Ismail, Mohammed Walid,‎Mohammed Ali, Suhaim, Abdul Ibrahim, Naeem Wadan, Khamis Saad Khalifa, Khaled, Bakri Mohammed, Ahmed Hassan, Halim, Hassan Syed Mohammad,Bassam Munir, Khaled Fahmi, Abdul Rahman Ibrahim, Meshaal, Tariq Abdullah Ilyas and Ahmed Hazem Ahmed. Coach: Oscar Cano