FOOTBALL – BAHRAIN’S senior men’s football national team play a friendly match today against a top European club as part of their ongoing overseas training camp in Slovenia.
The kingdom’s squad, currently in the city of Maribor, are scheduled to take on Croatian First League outfit NK Istra 1961.
It is the first of two tune-ups during their summer gathering. The other is against Slovenian First League team NK Primorje on Tuesday next week.
Bahrain’s Croatian head coach Dragan Talajic has named 28 players for their camp, which is scheduled to continue until July 24.
The roster includes Waleed Al Hayyam, Amine Benaddi, Hamad Shamsan, Abdulla Al Khalasi, Sayed Dhiya Saeed, Komail Alaswad, Ali Madan, Mahdi Humaidan, Mahdi Abduljabbar, Ebrahim Luthfallah, Sayed Mahdi Baqer, Ahmed Bughammar, Sayed Mahmood Al Mosawi, Hazza Ali, Vincent Emmanuel, Hussain Al Eker, Jassim Al Shaikh, Ahmed Al Sherooqi, Ebrahim Al Khattal, Hussain Abdulkarim, Abdulkarim Al Fardan, Abdulla Al Subaie, Hussain Jameel, Omar Saber, Ahmed Dhiya, Ahmed Abdulhameed, Yousef Habib, and Mohammed Al Gharabli.
Bahrain are gearing up for a number of competitions that will be taking place later this year, headlined by the Fifa Arab Cup 2025 this December in Doha, Qatar. The nationals must first play a qualifying game in November against Djibouti to secure their spot in the Fifa Arab Cup’s group stage.
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