Saudi Arabia’s thirst for world cup really high!

February 11th, 2006 | By: Shahed | 6 Comments »

Saudi Arabia has lined-up in the coming months great games against fellow World Cup 2006 teams and non-world cup teams. The number of games keeps increasing and increasing as time gets closer to the World Cup.

Unlike any other world cup, the Saudis are now succeeding at setting friendly games with stronger teams. For some teams, a game against Saudis is a way to test the players and predict the level of other asian teams that are in their group. Paqueta, can be given credit for his ambition to get as much friendly games as possible and his fame around the world is allowing him to do so. On March 1st, Saudi Arabia will meet Portugal for the first time ever in the history of both team, in Germany with all the national team players. Portugal will play with all their star players, as they don’t want to underestimate the Saudis. In addition, the game will help them understand the strength of Iran, who are also in their group.

The coming games for the Saudis are:

vs. Syria 15.02.2006
vs. Yemen 22.02.2006
vs. Portugal 01.03.2006
vs. Iceland 15.03.2006
vs. Poland 29.03.2006
vs. South Africa 16.05.2006
vs. Czech Republic 26.05.2006
vs. Romania 31.05.2006
vs. France 04.06.2006

Tags: Friendly, Portugal, Saudi Arabia

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Comments

By Perz | February 11th, 2006 at 7:15 pm

Wow, 9 games is a lot. Japan and Saudi Arabia both will have played a bunch before Germany. Are any of Saudi Arabia’s players playing for club teams in Europe?

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By Shahed | February 11th, 2006 at 10:33 pm

Actually, none of the Saudi Arabia’s players play abroad. Recently the national player Ahmed Al-Sawileh was on the verge to move to Austria to play there. But, due to his current club’s need for him, he did not go for the transfer. He told reporters, that he wants to transfer after the World Cup after playing with the national team.

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By Sefan | February 15th, 2006 at 3:58 am

Is there anywhere on the web where one can find information on the Saudi players?

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By Shahed | February 15th, 2006 at 1:24 pm

There isn’t one website which extensively covers the Saudi national team. But there are multiple websites from which you can get information about the players. One good source is the following link http://sports.naseej.com/ClubPage.aspx?ClubID=33. But the information is in Arabic and not updated. I am planning to post a blog on profiles of the Saudi player, which I plan to keep updated with the change in player in the national team.

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By Ibra | February 27th, 2006 at 4:28 pm

There are not that many saudi players who can really make it abroad… But there is one fantastic player who i believe can make it anywhere… His name is Mohammad Noor. He is the man who scored against the african champions then in the next game against Sao paolo of brasil in the fifa world club competition (not forgetting his 3 assists).

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