Rodolfo excluded aroparin;Ali Mabkhout, the UAE national team coach, is among the squad list that will participate in the 25th Gulf Championship, which will be held in Basra, Iraq next January.
The official list ofUnited Arab Emirates national team26 Player Fantasy:
Khaled Issa, Ali Khasif, Fahd Al-Dhanhani, Khaled Al-Sanani, Shaheen Abdul-Rahman, Khalifa Al-Hammadi, Walid Abbas, Khaled Al-Hashemi, Abdul Salam Muhammad, Khaled Al-Dhanhani, Abdul Aziz Haikal, Ahmed Jamil, Majid Rashid, Abdullah Ramadan, Majid Hassan, Falah Waleed, Khaled Al Balushi, Hussein Mahdi, Muhammad Abdul Basit, Ali Saleh, Tahnoon Al Zaabi, Fabio de Lima, Hareb Abdullah, Yahya Al Ghassan, Caio Canedo, Sebastian Tigali.
And the UAE national team manager had earlier announced an expanded roster of players that had been cut back, including the Al-Jazira player and one of UAE football’s illustrious forwards, Ali Mabkhout.
The UAE national team will play in Dubai for a week starting next Monday, where they will face Lebanon in a friendly on 30 December at the Al-Nasr Club’s Al Maktoum stadium, before traveling to Basra on 2 January.
The UAE national team will play in the second round, alongside teams from Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, as they begin their tournament against Bahrain on January 7, while facing Kuwait on January 10 and Qatar on January 13 at the Porto Olimpico Stadium.
List of UAE national teams