The Bahrain Football Association (BFA) announced last night key dates of the senior men’s national team’s European training camp, which kicks off later this month.
The kingdom’s squad are set to conduct a two-week programme in Maribor, Slovenia, from July 20 to August 2, under the supervision of national team head coach Dragan Talajic.
The camp is part of their summer preparations for upcoming competitions, highlighted by the start of the third round of Asian qualification for the Fifa World Cup 2026.
The BFA revealed yesterday that the national team will first gather in the kingdom on Thursday next week. They then depart for Slovenia two days later.
There, they will be playing two friendly matches against top clubs, first on July 24 and then on July 29. One of their opponents has already been confirmed in top Croatian outfit NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, while the other has yet to be announced. The BFA also still has to determine the dates of each tune-up game.
The Bahrainis are then scheduled to return to the kingdom on August 2.
Thirty players have been called up by Talajic for the camp. They include Ali Madan, Komail Al Aswad, Mahdi Humaidan, Jassim Al Shaikh, Waleed Al Hayyam, Amine Benaddi, Sayed Mohammed Jaafar, Ebrahim Luthfallah, Ebrahim Al Khattal, Abdulla Al Khalasi, Ahmed Al Sherooqi, Hussain Abdulkarim, Ahmed Abdulhameed, Sayed Ahmed Al Wadaei, Ammar Mohammed, Abdulkarim Al Fardan, Sayed Mahdi Baqer, Ahmed Nabeel, Hamad Shamsan, Mohammed Adel, Mohammed Al Banna, Hazza Ali, Ali Haram, Moses Atede, Sayed Dhiya Saeed, Abdulwahab Al Malood, Mahdi Abduljabbar, Ismaeel Abdullatif, Abbas Al Asfoor, and Vincent Emmanuel.
Bahrain are in Group C for round three of the Fifa World Cup qualifiers alongside Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, and Indonesia. This stage kicks off in September.
patrick@gdnmedia.bh
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