Mutasem Abdullah (Dubai)
The farewell of our national youth team completed the qualifying race for the AFC U-20 Cup finals scheduled in Uzbekistan 2023, by occupying third place in the tenth group standings, the team’s series of failures in 4 official participations at the Arab, regional and continental levels, during the period from June 2021 to September 2022.
The “Young Whites” finished their journey to participate in the continental qualifiers within the tenth group that was held in Kyrgyzstan, by occupying third place in the tenth group standings with 3 points, the outcome of their victory in the first round over Brunei 5-0, before losing in the second round against Kyrgyzstan “the host” » 0-2, and in the third against Iran 0-3.
The Iranian team topped the group standings with 9 points from three matches, compared to 6 points for Kyrgyzstan.
And the negative results in the “Young White” campaign in the current qualifiers repeated the scenario of the youth team’s previous participation in the qualifiers for the 2020 AFC Asian Cup, which was later canceled due to Corona, and our team occupied the last qualifiers under the leadership of Croatian Verdo Milen also third place in the standings of the fourth group. for qualifiers in Iran.
The expected absence of our national youth team from the 2023 finals represents the first after 7 consecutive participations in the 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, editions, noting that the cancellation affected one edition of the 2020 finals, and the qualifiers witnessed the failure of the “Young White” to qualify.
The farewell of the “Abyad Al-Shabab” to the qualifying race for the 2023 finals does not seem surprisingly sympathetic to the results of the previous participations of the same team under the leadership of its former Spanish coach Frank Ortega, before assigning the task to the citizen coach Faisal Al-Tahri in the current qualifiers.
The series of failures of “Abyad Al Shabab” included an early farewell to the seventh edition of the Arab Cup for U-20 youth teams, which was held in Egypt in June 2021, by occupying third place in the second group standings with 3 points from his victory in the first round over Djibouti 8-0, and the loss 2 -3 against Tajikistan and 0-5 against Morocco, respectively.
In November 2021, the youth team played the matches of the second edition of the West Asian Youth Championship hosted by Iraq with the participation of 9 teams. His loss in two matches against Jordan 0-2 in the first round, and Syria 0-1 in the last round of the first round.
Under the leadership of Ortega, “Young White” lost its three matches in the friendly tournament in Israel in December 2021, as part of the understanding agreement signed by the two federations, as it lost to Israel 1-4, Russia 2-3, and Germany 1-3.
The results of the last participation in the eighth edition of the Arab Cup for U-20 teams in Saudi Arabia put the last line in the Spanish Ortega’s journey with “Abyad Al Shabab”, after the team was eliminated from the first round also with a 1-1 draw with Jordan, and a 1-3 loss against Yemen.
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