Hussein Al -Darazi
The Indonesian Football Federation continues its serious steps in strengthening the national team for the remaining final qualifiers for the World Cup 2026 World Cup, as the President of the Indonesian Federation, Eric Tuhir, stated that his country has started to naturalize goalkeeper Emile Odiro to wear the Indonesian national team shirt in the qualifiers.
This issue has to do with our national team, as Indonesia is in the third group next to our team, Saudi Arabia, Australia, China and Japan, and there is a upcoming match between Al -Ahmar and Indonesia in the next round, specifically on March 25 in Jakarta.
Odiro holds a great experience as it was established in the Italian club Juventus and was present in the youth category in 2008 and called by the famous Italian coach Massimiliano Alegre for the first team in 2014 at the age of 17 years, and he was installed in the first team in 2016 and was the third goalkeeper behind the famous Buffon and Nen To Venice and then Sampdoria, who then bought it for 20 million euros and played with the team 169 games, and the most prominent station for him was the loan of the famous Italian club Inter Milan and played 4 games in the league that the player won with Inter last season 2023-2024 and played a match in the Champions League against Benfica, Portuguese, and last summer he officially moved to the Como club, which was coached by the Spanish club Fabregas has played 8 matches in the Italian League, and in the last winter transfer window he was loaned to the club Palermo, who played 35 international matches with the Italian teams in the age groups from the under -15 team to the under -21 and did not reach the first team..
The steps of the naturalization of Odiro are from an Indonesian father, an Italian mother, and a newborn in Indonesia
