Pre World Cup Friendlies announced

February 6th, 2006 | by: Mohammed | Comments Off

The Saudi FA announced that the ‘Green Falcons’ will be facing the likes of Portugal,France,Poland and the Czech Republic during it’s Pre World Cup preparations….and I am loving it!

This is one of the best things the Saudi FA has done in a while, one of the reasons we did so poorly during the last world cup was our very poor preparations, during our pre world cup friendlies we played against the Brazilian reserve team,Denmark and Senegal. We also played in the Gulf Cup which we won in dramatic fashion.

As you can see this isn’t the proper preparation for the World Cup especially for a team that doesn’t have players in Europe!!!

Playing against European teams is a must, European teams have this weird jinx on us we always play badly against them. A good example of this is when we crashed and burned against Germany and Ireland yet we played very good football against Cameroon in the last World Cup.

In our WC group we have two European teams..yikes. But these friendlies will give us the necessary experience against Ukraine and Spain. We are already familiar with Tunisia’s style so it’s good we aren’t wasting our time to face North African teams.

Now it’s up to Paqueta to use these matches well, the time for experimenting with the team is done now he has to field the real deal.

For those wishing to see Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Friendlies please click here