Yasser Al Qahtani, in a press conference, said that he plans to move to Europe after the World Cup. For him, the World Cup is a platform for showing his skills to everyone. Kojah also mentioned during the same press conference, that there are around 7 to 8 players looking to play at Europe after [...]

With only few days before the game of Saudi Arabia with Tunisia, many are wondering how prepared is the Saudi national team. People speak of possible success, dissatisfaction, complete failure and a disaster. Of all the comments that I hear, many fear that another catastrophe similar to Korea/Japan 2002 is likely to happen.

This is it. Saudi Arabia after tomorrow’s game against “Frankfurt Interkhat” will have completed all possible practice games before the game against Tunisia. Paqueta plans to prevent media from watching the game, as he plans to use start-ups and formation expected for the game against Tunisia. It’s expected that Paqueta is going to push [...]

Almost all nations in the World Cup have prepared cash rewards to players who bring the World Cup trophy back home. Saudi Arabia is going reward the players with a new house or property if they perform well in the World Cup.

Against Bad Nauhiem, Mohammad Anbar was brilliant and scored 4 of the 15 goals. Only 21 years old, and he already accomplished a lot with the national team and his club Al-Hilal. Fifaworldcup.com did an interview with him and let’s hear from him.

Source: Arriyadiyyah, June 5th
Marcos Paqueta confirmed that he is not worried about the slight injuries in some of the players. He said after the game against Bad Nauhiem:
Injuries are normal in the world of football, and for us its not a worry as the injuries are simple and not big ones. …I gave in the [...]

Saudi Arabia, today, gave a strong message to the group opponents after thrashing the Bad Nauheim local team by 15-0. The game saw the veteran Sami Jaber score 7 goals in a game that was one sided.

Source: Arriyadiyyah, June 3rd
Muhammad Al Daeyea, the most capped player in the World, caught a severe cold that prevented him to participate in the training Friday. The change in the climate between Saudi Arabia and Germany caused many other players to catch a cold. It started with Mabrouk Zaid, then Abdul Aziz Al Khatran before [...]

Source: Al Watan, 4th June
Tunisia lost against Uruguay in the LG Cup final through penalty kicks, after the game drew 0-0. Tunisian Coach Lamir decided to use 10 substitute players rather than the start-ups in the final game to avoid giving away his game plans and tactics to opponent teams. Even though the game against [...]

Source: Al Watan, June 4th
The Saudi and Ittihadi defender Hamad Al Montashiri is participating in his first World Cup with great excitement. The 23-year defender was awarded the best player in Asia for 2005 after intense competition from his teammate Sami Jaber and Uzbekistani player Maxim for the award.