The players of the American national team, the first of 32 qualified nations to arrive in Qatar ten days before the 2022 World Cup, landed at Doha’s Hamad International Airport in late Thursday afternoon. Their Qatar Airways flight from New York was among the first to use the new part of the airport which opened on Thursday;
The “Team USA”, led by the American Gregg Berhalter since December 2018, set foot in Qatar. It is the first nation to have placed its able-bodied on the soil of the host country.
The United States will enter the competition against Wales on 21 November, before facing England on 25 November. His most anticipated match will pit him against Iran, his sworn enemy on the international stage, on 29 November.
Eleventh participation
The 26 players and the American staff will be accommodated at the Marsa Malaz Kempinski hotel, on the artificial island The Pearl (The Pearl), north of Doha. They will train on a pitch of the Al-Gharafa club, about fifteen kilometers away.
This is the eleventh participation of the Americans, 16th in the FIFA ranking, in a World Cup (with the best result of the third place in 1930), the first since 2014.
In recent days, personnel from Argentina and Japan have also arrived in Qatar.
