Saudi Arabia National Team managed to hold their host Bahrain to a 0 – 0 draw in a game held last night in the small Kingdom of Bahrain pursuing their last chance to feature in 2010 World Cup for their 5th appearance consecutively.
Bahraini players led by Milan Macala the Czech Coach who knows all [...]

Finally, the crucial match against Bahrain will kick off today in Manama at 10PM local time due to the fasting month of Ramadan.
I predict the good ol’ 4-4-2 formation. No real reason to change that one.
In goal will most certainly be Waleed Abdullah. He’s been dependable between the sticks in all his appearances and has [...]

Nayef Hazazi has sustained a Cruciate ligament injury in a friendly match against the Malaysian National Team. He went in on a Malaysian player with a poor tackle and only got himself hurt. He’ll be out for the rest of the season. Al-Nasr player Rayan Bilal has been called up to fill the roster.
While, this [...]

Sorry for the long delay in posting but as you know, not much has been happening on the national team front. The entire country is now focused on the just-started 2009-2010 season of the Saudi Premier League.
But now that the Bahrain match is close at hand the FA has released the squad list for the [...]

It’s that time of the year again where nothing of interest happens in footy except club transfers.
And while there is quite some time until the boys in green take on Bahrain in our third place playoff match (September to be exact) I thought it would be nice to pass the summer with some re-assuring [...]

So Prince Sultan bin Fahad, President of Youth Welfare, had a long chat with our national coach Jose Peseiro. I assume the conversation lasted 10 seconds with Prince Sultan saying something like “You win the next 4 games or your ass is out of here faster than you can say “revolving door” ” and then [...]

In a decisive game to achieve their 5th consecutive appearance in the World Cup, Saudi Arabia National Team failed to put on a smile on almost 80 thousands of Saudi supporters.
Korea DPR a team with a lot of discipline in defense booked its place in the first World Cup to happen in the African [...]

The match against North Korea is less than 24 hours away now so I guess it’s time to talk about line ups and tactics.
We’ve stuck with a pretty orthodox 4-4-2 during the whole campaign so that’s what I’m assuming we use tomorrow as well.
First up in goal is most likely gonna be Waleed Abdullah. An [...]

José Peseiro gave his pre-match press conference and stated that he was confident that the team had what it takes to beat DPR Korea and clinch the final qualifying spot.
However, he warned against complacency in front of the Koreans who have one of the strongest defensive lines in the qualifying stages ( 4th behind South [...]

First off, I’d like to say hello to everyone on Worldcupblog.org. I’m a new writer here and I’ll be tag teaming the Saudi Arabia blog with Fulantino to provide more updates for this section.

The upcoming match against DPR Korea is sink or swim for the Saudi NT and the away game in Pyongyang cost previous [...]