Ali Adnan: We have a big responsibility

“Our preparations are good and this day is very important, only 11 players completed the training with the two goalkeepers and we are ready”, said Ali Adnan, the Iraqi national team player, before the match against Qatar in the opening of the Gulf 24.

On the absence of some players, Ali Adnan said at the press conference: “All Iraqi players are important to us and the coach chose 23 players and everyone should respect this decision. All of us are able to raise the reputation of Iraq. Everyone here is ready to represent Iraq and we had three training sessions in Doha with high morale”.

He continued: “The Gulf championship does not put any pressure on us, and since our arrival we feel happy among our loved ones and we have a very great responsibility which is to provide a level of happiness of the Iraqi people, who are going through conditions everyone knows”.