Friday 11/July/2025 – 10:49 AM
Omar Kharbin is a team star Syria The former Pyramids, a strong surprise about his absence from Australia’s confrontation with the qualifying attaché to the 2018 World Cup, after 8 years of that incident.
Omar Khirbin admits his intention to be absent from the Australian match
Omar Khirbin said in media statements, during which he was asked if he was intentional to be absent from facing the decisive Australia, where he said: For honesty, this is true, and things at that time were political.
He continued: There were people who were wounded and people were bombed, so we used to live the feeling of letdown.
Australia fought a decisive confrontation at that time with the eligibility qualified to the World Cup in Russia, where Nisour Qassioun needed to win with a clean goal in the return match after a 1-1 draw in the second leg.
Omar Khirbin gets a yellow card in the first leg, to be absent from the second leg, which ended with the same result, so that the two teams resort to additional runs and the guests succeed in scoring the goal of progress, and deprives Syria of qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in history.
Omar Khirbin, a professional in the UAE league, is one of the pillars of the Syrian team at that time, and he also has experienced many experiences in Arab leagues, led by Al Hilal Saudi, Pyramids, in addition to the Iraqi Air Force and UAE unit.
The company of the Syrian team participated in the 2019 and 2023 Asian Nations Finals and became the first Syrian player to score 3 goals in the continental championship.
