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The Tunisian and Serbian national teams are among the options for friendly matches of the national football team within the FIFA days next month.
According to information obtained by "Al-Rai", the entry of the two teams to the "Al-Nashma" preparation program will be confirmed in the coming days if the possible confrontation with the Egyptian team is not proven before the historic match with the Spanish team on November 17 and before the latter travels to the World Cup finals. in Qatar.
According to information and follow-ups that precede the team’s preparations for its Spanish counterpart next month, it was understood that there was a delay from the Egyptian side to confirm its presence in Amman and to participate in this confrontation, as news suggested that the “Pharaohs” who will face Belgium in Kuwait on Friday, November 18, may prefer arranging a second confrontation there. In Kuwait instead of having to play two matches in two different countries.
In this context, “Al-Nashma” is still looking for a preparatory confrontation that precedes that Spanish historical, so that this will be in front of one of the available teams willing to play within the geographical scope of the World Cup, and therefore the Football Association, in coordination with the technical staff of the national team, is on the verge of achieving this matter, whether With the “Pharaohs” or “Carthage Eagles” or the Serbian national team as alternative teams.
Despite all these nominations, it remains a valid option for the players not to play a friendly match before meeting Spain, as this is related to the final view of the technical staff on the one hand, and the extent to which the related arrangements have been completed on the other hand.
In addition, the team's progress in the latest world rankings issued by the International Federation of Football was very important at this stage when it ranked 84th in the world, 12th in Asia and 10th in the Arab world.
The progress of "Al-Nashma" came after maintaining a series of positive results, and winning at the end of last month the title of the International Quartet Championship, which it hosted in Amman, after overcoming Syria 2-0 and Oman 1-0.
The team will benefit from this position when drawing the draw for the Asian finals 2023, which is expected next February, as it has become the second continental level.
A look at the Tunisian national team The Tunisian
national team ranks 30th in the world, and is one of the Arab teams most present in the World Cup. It is equal with the Moroccan and Saudi teams with 5 participations, before participating in the next World Cup in Qatar, but during its previous participation, it was unable to overcome the first round.
The Tunisian national team has a rich record of continental participation, as it participated in the African Nations Cup finals on 20 occasions, and has not missed the finals since 1994, and participated in all tournaments regularly between 1994 and 2022.
The Carthage Eagles won the African Nations Cup on a single occasion, when they hosted the 2004 tournament and won the title after defeating their Moroccan counterpart in the final (2-1). They also reached the final on two occasions, in 1965 in Tunisia and in 1996 in South Africa.
Jalal Al-Qadri has been supervising the training of the Tunisian national team, since last February, when he took over the position, succeeding Mundhir Al-Kabeer, after he was an assistant coach for several months.
Al-Qadri, 51, led Tunisia to qualify for the World Cup after defeating Mali in the decisive round of the qualifiers (1-0) in the home and away total.
The most prominent players
The Tunisian national team relies on a group of professional players in Europe and some Arab leagues, as well as a small number of Tunisian league players.
Tunisia captain Youssef Msakni (Qatari Al-Arabi striker) is one of the most prominent players and most attended (72 international matches), along with Wahbi Khazri (France Montpellier), Montaser Talbi (Lorion, France), Hannibal Al-Majbri (Birmingham, England), Ferjani Sassi (Al Duhail, Qatar). ), Ali Maaloul (Al-Ahly of Egypt), Naim Al-Saliti (the Saudi agreement), Ayman Dahmane (Sfaxien), Nader Al-Ghandari (African), Ghaylan Al-Shaalali (Tunisia's Esperance).
It is noteworthy that Tunisia is participating in the first round of the World Cup in Group D, and its participation will open against Denmark on November 22 at the Education City Stadium.
In the second round, Tunisia will face Australia at the South Stadium, and the first round matches will be completed by facing the world champions France at the Education City Stadium.
Serbia.. the surprise
FIFA expected that Serbia would be one of the surprises of the World Cup in Qatar, despite its failure to qualify for the European Nations Cup 2020 and its failure to reach the knockout stages in the previous World Cup tournaments.
The team, which previously played under the banner of Yugoslavia, has so far been knocked out of the group stage at the World Cup, once on behalf of Serbia and once on behalf of Serbia and Montenegro (in Germany 2006), however, their fortunes may be about to change after coach Dragan Stojkovic led his ambitious team. To Qatar 2022 in the UEFA qualifiers without defeat and topped Group A, beating Cristiano Ronaldo's country on the way.
The Balkan team was drawn into a difficult group that includes Brazil, Switzerland and Cameroon, making it difficult to predict the team's chances of advancement.
Serbia is counting on 5 of its stars who will grab the spotlight: Sergei Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Dusan Tadic (Ajax), Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus), Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham), and Filip Kostic (Juventus).