Playoff squad announced!

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 Bahrain match.

Goal Keepers: Waleed Abdullah, Mabrouk Zaid, Mansour Najei

Defenders:Redha Tuker,Osama Hawsawi,Majed Mershedi,Naif Qadi,Hamad Muntashiri,Abdullah Shuhail,Abdullah Al Zouri,Hasan Mauth,Mohammed Massad

Midfielders:Tayseer Al Jasem,Manaf Abu Shugeir,Saud Kariri,Ahmed Otaif,Abdul Latif Al Ghannam,Hussein Abdul Ghani, Mohammed Al Shalhoub,Mohamed Noor, Abdul Rahman Al Qahtani.

Forwards:Yasser Qahtani,Malek Mauth,Nasser Al Shamrani,Abul Aziz Al Saraan,Naif Hazazi

All in all, it’s a decent list but there’s some players that should be added.

Ahmed Al Mousa is a player I talk about a lot and I do come across as some sort of club zealot (I support Al Wehda where Mousa plays) but he played great in the first two rounds of the SPL and the national team sorely lacks a natural right winger.

Another person I think can slot in the squad list is Ahmed’s brother Kamel Al Mousa who plays at left back and is much better in both attack and defense than the current incumbent Abdullah Al Zouri. Sure, I’m disseminating Al Wehda propaganda again but there’s a reason Kamel was given the Al Wehda captaincy.

Saad Al Harthi should be in place over the unreliable Nasser Al Shamrani but seeing as he just came off a long term injury and isn’t playing regular club football.

Yasser Al Qahtani still hasn’t found his sizzling form from a couple years back but here’s hoping he manages to find it before the Bahrain match.

Good luck to the Green Falcons in their playoff bout and I promise to update more regularly from now on.