Abu DhabiFriday, October 07, 2005

The UAE senior football team will gather tonight in Al Ain to prepare for their friendly match against Oman on Tuesday.

The UAE’s youth and junior teams will also start their preparations. The youth team gathers in Dubai while the juniors are set to leave for Jordan.

The senior team will be led by caretaker coach Jumaa Rabie. Players from Al Ain club have not been selected because they will be preparing for their return-leg Asian Champions League semifinals.

Khalifa Mubarak will lead the youth team who will play two friendlies against their Egyptian counterparts on Monday and Wednesday.

The UAE youth team will assemble tomorrow.

Jumaa Rabie will lead the UAE juniors to Amman after he ends his task with the senior team. The team will leave on October 13 where they will meet their Jordanian counterparts in two friendly matches on October 14 and 16.

The squads:

Seniors: Mohammad Qasem, Salim Khamis and Faisal Khalil from Ahli. Yousuf Abdul Aziz, Salih Obaid, Adil Naseeb and Khalaf Salim from Al Jazira. Saeed Al Kass, Nawaf Mubarak and Fayez Jumaa from Sharjah. Esmail Rabie and Salim Sa’ad from Al Shabab. Omran Al Jassmi from Al Shaab. Yousuf Moussa, Mahmoud Hassan and Darwish Ahmad from Al Nasr. Basheer Saeed, Abdul Rahim Jumaa, Hayder Allo Ali and Esmail Mattar from Al Wahda. Majid Nasir and Sami Rabie from Al Wasl.

 Juniors :Ahmad Khalil, Waleed Mahmoud and Sa’ad Sorour from Ahli. Mohammad Fawzy and Salim Ahmad from Al Ittihad. Dhiyab Awanah and Mohammad Saeed from Bani Yas. Dawood Abdulla from Al Jazira. Khalid Ali from Hatta. Salih Hamad, Fadhil Ishaq and Mohammad Salim from Al Ain. Adnan Ahmad and Ahmad Abdul Rahman from Al Nasr. Mohammad Khamis from Dubai. Ahmad Ali, Hamad Saif and Mohsin Mohammad from Al Wahda. Suhail Khalid, Badr Abdulla, Nasir Mubarak and Humaid Hamed from Al Wasl. Youth: Mahmoud Qasem, Hamdan Qasem and Abdulla Abdul Rahman from Ahli. Ali Khaseef and Ahmad Mubarak from Al Jazira. Tilal Ahmad from Sharjah. Fawzy Fayez, Abdulla Moussa, Nasir Khamis, Musallam Fayez and Ahmad Saeed Al Shamsi from Al Ain. Mohammad Ebrahim, Khalid Sabeel and Amer Mubarak from Al Nasr. Rashid Saeed, Mohammad Saeed, Saeed Al Kathiri, Yasir Abdulla, Abdulla Bilal Al Noobi, Mahmoud Khamis, Eissa Ahmad and Mohammad Othman from Al Wahda and Ali Hassan Al Ameer from Al Wasl.

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