On Monday, the “Green Junior Girls” lost their first match against their Singaporean counterpart 1-0, during their campaign in the qualifiers for the Asian Cup, which was held in Singapore. The team will meet its Indonesian counterpart next Thursday, before concluding its matches against the Bahrain national team on October 11.
Al-Akhdar participated in his preparatory camp in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, with the participation of 24 players, including 3 female goalkeepers, 7 female players in the defense line, 8 female players in the midfield, and 6 female players in the offensive line, namely Dana Al-Binali, Talia Katbi, Maryam Al-Tayyar, Joan Al-Nassar, Diala Srouji, Rital Hakmi, Hawraa Jalal, Joud Al-Amoudi, Arwa Al-Rasheed, Remas Ahmed, Heba Abdul Rahman, and Sarah. Al-Madani, Dima Ahmed, Hala Al-Shadoukhi, Rima Abdel Aziz, Ghala Saleh, Ghadi Al-Otaibi, Siwar Amr, Kenzi Alaa, Hoor Al-Farid, Dana Al-Dahyan, Sadeem Al-Suhaimi, Saadia Muhammad, and Zainab Reda.
The preparatory camp for the Saudi women’s national team under 20 years began today in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and will continue until October 14 as part of the team’s preparatory program.
The national team’s technical staff summoned 24 players to participate in the camp, and they are: Dima Sheikh, Ransi Al-Hujaili, Ibtihal Abdullah, Layan Amir, Miral Daghestani, Aseel Ahmed, Lara Al-Nasr, Mawaddah Al-Maghrabi, Maria Baghfar, Tulin Al-Ghamdi, Rawan Al-Shanqeeti, Maya Al-Zahrani, Tala Bayazid, Lulu Abdullah, Saba Al-Yahya, Lama Thamer, Lana Al-Hadithi, and Zahraa Talib. Lareen Bassiouni, Lamar Wael, Lina Eid, Raytan Khaled, Malkoot Salem, and Remas Al-Aradi.
The camp includes two closed friendly matches against the Jordanian national team, on October 10 and 13, with the aim of raising the technical and physical readiness of the female players, and benefiting from international confrontations in preparation for upcoming matches.
For her part, Alia Al-Rasheed, Director of the Women’s Football Department, said: “This camp represents an important station within the team’s preparation program, and we look forward to the players benefiting from the training program and the two friendly matches against the Jordanian national team, which will contribute to enhancing their readiness and giving them more international experience. We are confident that the coming period will continue to support the development of the players and the team, and we wish them success in the camp.”
The camp comes within the program to prepare the national team for young women, within the framework of working to develop the players and enhance their technical and physical readiness, in addition to giving them more experience by playing friendly international matches.
The Saudi national team concluded its preparations to face the UAE in the final of the Arabian Gulf Cup, “Gulf 27”, amid a clear focus on set pieces, which emerged as one of the expected weapons for “Al-Akhdar” in Tuesday’s match at Al-Enmaa Stadium in King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah.
The national team players conducted their final training session, on Monday evening, under the supervision of Greek Georgios Donis, and began with warm-up exercises, then mini-maneuvers, before implementing a number of tactical sentences and concluding the training by practicing set pieces.
This aspect gains special importance after Denis confirmed during the press conference that his technical staff paid attention to set pieces offensively and defensively, while Croatian Zlatko Dalic, the UAE coach, described the Saudi national team as a team that is good at investing in them, calling on his players to deal with them with caution.
It is expected that fixed balls will be one of Saudi Arabia's means of penetrating the UAE's defensive organization, especially if the confrontation tends to close and the spaces in front of the penalty area are reduced.
In terms of injuries, Alaa Al Hajji and Zakaria Hawsawi continued their treatment programs accompanied by the medical team, without announcing their final position on participating in the match.
