UAE Argentine coach Rodolfo Aruabarina announced the list of 26 players for the Gulf 25 Cup, and Al Abyad’s historic scorer Ali Mabhoot was not on the list.
The exclusion of 32-year-old Mabhoot came as a surprise, especially since he is the historical top scorer for the UAE national team with 81 goals and the UAE League with 194 goals.
Arvaparina did not give the reasons for the exclusion of Mabhut, the top scorer of the last edition of the Gulf Cup “Gulf 24”, which was held in Qatar in 2019, with 5 goals.
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Striker Ali Mabhoot has been removed from the Emirates roster for the 25th Gulf Championship. pic.twitter.com/10hVpRJx34
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Al-Abyad will travel to a camp in Dubai for a week, during which he will play a friendly match against his Lebanese counterpart on December 30, before heading to the city of Basra in southern Iraq on January 2 for Gulf 25. take place.
The UAE will start their Gulf 25 matches against defending champions Bahrain on January 7 in the second group of the competition, which also includes Qatar and Kuwait.
With 26 players:
Goalkeepers: Khaled Issa (Al Ain), Ali Hasif (Al Jazeera) and Khaled Al Sanani (Al Wasl).
From the defense: Hassan Al-Mahrami and Khaled Al-Hashemi (Baniyas), Shaheen Abdul-Rahman and Khaled Al-Dhanhani (Sharjah), Khalifa Al-Hammadi (Al-Jazeera), Waleed Abbas, Abdulaziz Haikal, Ahmed Jameel (Shabab Al -Ahli), Abdul Salam Muhammad (Al-Ittihad Kalba)
Center: Walid Falah and Khaled Al Balushi (Al Ain), Majid Rashid, Majid Hassan and Muhammad Abdul Basit (Sharjah), Abdullah Ramadan (Al Jazeera), Hussein Mahdi (Al Nasr “”)
For the attack: Ali Saleh and Fabio Lima (“Al Wasl”), Tahnoun Al Zaabi and Sebastian Tagliabui (“Al Wahda”), Hareb Abdullah and Yahya Al Ghassani (“Shabab Al Ahly”), Cayo Canedo ( “Al Ain”).
Source: “Wakalat”