The country left “Wednesday” the first batch of the first national football team delegation heading to the Japanese capital, Tokyo, to run the training camp that precedes the upcoming confrontation against the Japan team on March 20, within the matches of the seventh round for the third group of the third and decisive stage matches that qualify for the 2026 World Cup. Al -Marzouq and 10 players, namely: Ismail Abdel -Latif, Ali Haram, Muhammad Al -Rumaihi, Amin bin Uday, Sayed Diaa Saeed Mahdi Humaidan, Sayed Mahdi Baqir, Mahdi Abdel -Jabbar, goalkeeper Ibrahim Lotfallah and Walid Al -Haytam. Through it, Al -Ahmar will prepare to confront Japan in these World Cup qualifiers. Returning to the position of the national team in the third group in these qualifiers, the team occupies fifth place with 6 points collected from a single victory at the expense of Australia with a score of 1/0, and 3 draws with Indonesia with a score of 2/2, and with Saudi Arabia 0/0 and with Australia 2/2, while losing to Japan with a historical result of 5/0, It lost in front of China 1/0. The team will play the remaining matches of these decisive qualifiers in the cups system against Japan in the seventh round and in front of Indonesia on March 25 in the eighth round, and in front of Saudi Arabia on June 5 in the ninth round and in front of China on June 10 in the tenth and final round, in order to achieve positive results and not to neglect the points of these confrontations, in order to keep its hopes in Competition for the crossing card for the World Cup.
