Announcing the expanded UAE national team list in preparation for the Gulf 25

The National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee of the UAE Football Association has approved the expanded first team list in preparation for participation in the Arabian Gulf Cup “Gulf 25”, which will be hosted by the Iraqi city of Basra from 6 to 19 January.

The expanded list included 35 players: Khaled Issa, Ali Khasif, Fahd Al-Dhanhani, Hassan Hamza, Khaled Al-Sanani, Hassan Al-Mahrami, Salem Sultan, Shaheen Abdul Rahman, Khalifa Al-Hammadi, Walid Abbas, Khaled Al-Hashemi, Abdul-Salam Muhammad, Al-Hassan Saleh, Khaled Al-Dhanhani, Abdulaziz Heikal, Ahmed Jamil, Saeed Juma, Yahya Nader, Ahmed Berman, Majid Rashid, Abdullah Ramadan, Majed Hassan, Falah Walid, Khaled Al Balushi, Hussein Mahdi, Muhammad Abdul Basit, Ali Saleh, Tahnoun Al Zaabi, Fabio de Lima, Hareb Abdullah, Yahya Al Ghassani , Caio Canedo, Ali Mabkhout, Sebastian Tigali, Ahmed Fawzy.

The final list, which will leave for Basra, will be announced after the end of the twelfth week of the Professional League matches.
Al-Abyad will enter a camp in Dubai, starting next Monday, for a week, where he will face his brother, the Lebanese national team, in a friendly match on December 30 at Al-Maktoum Stadium in Al-Nasr Club, before traveling to Basra on January 2.

The UAE national team will play in the second group alongside Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, as it will start its tournament against Bahrain on January 7, while it will face Kuwait on January 10 and Qatar on January 13 at the Olympic Port Stadium.