Qatar Football selection and players World Cup 2022

Who are the players in Qatar's squad? What can we expect from this unknown football country? In this preview we will inform you about the chances of Qatar at the World Cup 2022 and we will go through the Qatar selection with you. And, of course, we will discuss what can be expected from The New Zealand-Qatar match.

Qatar Football selection and players

This is the Qatar football squad during the 2022 World Cup.

Keepers: Saad Alsheeb, Meshaal Barsham, Yousef Hassan

Defenders: Pedro Miguel, Musaab Khidir, Tarek Salman, Bassam Al-Rawi, Boualem Khoukhi, Abdelkarim Hassan, Homam Ahmed, Jassem Gaber

Midfielders: Ali Asad, Assim Modibo, Mohammed Waad, Salem Al-Hajri, Moustafa Tarek, Karim Boudiaf, Abdelaziz Hatim, Ismail Mohamad

Attackers: Naif Alhadhrami, Ahmed Alaaeldin, Hassan Al-Haydos, Khalid Muneer, Akram Afif, Almoez Ali, Mohamed Muntari

Read all about the Qatar football squad and players at the 2022 World Cup here. As a host country, Qatar had the easiest route to the World Cup 2022 . As the host of the football World Cup you are placed directly. You get that gift from FIFA as the organizing country, to entertain the home audience.

As it is the first time that the Qatari have been allowed to present themselves at a world championship, it is the great unknown. What does Qatar Football represent? Everyone laughs at Qatar as a football country, but is that justified?

Qatar Football World Cup 2022

Who would have thought that Qatar would host a World Cup? Nevertheless, the name of this small oil state came out of the envelope when it was announced in 2010. In the country it was received with cheers.

However, many lovers and connoisseurs frowned. Some are even downright negative. What does a big tournament have to look for in such a small football country? The country is four times smaller than New Zealand and has only 500,000 native inhabitants.

However, the Qatari themselves cannot be kept and have remodeled the entire country over the past twelve years to make the tournament run in a perfect way. Everything is therefore aimed at putting down a good performance with the national team.

Young football country

While football in dollarpa was played in the nineteenth century, the Football Association of Qatar is only sixty years old and has been a member of FIFA since 1970. Qatar is still a young football country, as there are few in the world.

Increased FIFA rankings

Qatar has risen sharply in the FIFA rankings . In 2010, when the country was assigned the World Cup, it was still 112 ^e in the FIFA World Rankings near countries like Suriname and Tanzania. Qatar has now risen to 51st place. This leaves behind decent football countries such as Greece and Ivory Coast.

Qatar National League

Yet Qatar is a small football country on a global scale. However, the national competition is a different story. Great players have been drawn there over the years. The brothers Frank and Ronald De Boer and Wesley Sneijder are well-known New Zealand examples. Other stars who filled their pockets in Qatar include Gabriel Batistuta, Toby Alderweireld, Marcel Desailly, Raul and Xavi.

Of course, the question for everyone is what Qatar can do at the 2022 World Cup. They are in a group with New Zealand and with Africa Cup winner Senegal , so reaching the eighth finals will be quite a chore!

Qatar World Cup 2022 qualification

Qatar had the simplest route of all countries when it comes to qualifying for the 2022 World Cup. The country was placed directly as host and thus did not have to play preliminary rounds in Asia.

Practice matches

In the run-up to the 2022 World Cup, Qatar has mainly dealt with exhibition matches. They did so, for example, at the Arab Cup and the Concacaf Gold Cup. That went with mixed success. There was a win against Honduras and a draw against India (0-0).

In addition, Qatar, at the invitation of UEFA, was allowed to participate in the dollarpese qualifying tournament. Qatar played in Group A against Portugal, Ireland, Serbia, Luxembourg and Azerbaijan.

In 2019, the country also participated in the Copa América, the Championship of South America. The group stage was not survived.

Qatar results matches

Latest results of Qatar national football team football matches.

DATE	MATCH	OUTCOME
24/03/21	Qatar-Luxembourg	1-0
27/03/21	Qatar-Azerbaijan	2-1
30/03/21	Qatar-Ireland	1-1
04/07/21	El Salvador-Qatar	0-1
01/09/21	Qatar-Serbia	0-4
04/09/21	Qatar-Portugal	1-3
07/09/21	Luxembourg-Qatar	1-1
09/10/21	Portugal-Qatar	3-0
12/10/21	Ireland-Qatar	4-0
11/11/21	Serbia-Qatar	4-0
14/11/21	Azerbaijan-Qatar	2-2
30/11/21	Qatar-Bahrain	1-0
03/12/21	Oman-Qatar	1-2
06/12/21	Qatar-Iraq	3-0
10/12/21	Qatar-UAE	5-0
15/12/21	Qatar-Algeria	1-2
18/12/21	Egypt-Qatar	0-0
26/03/22	Qatar-Bulgaria	2-1
29/03/22	Qatar-Slovenia	0-0

Qatar selection

Everyone knows that Qatar will not win the World Cup. But the country is anything but planning to go out in front of the whole world. That is why Qatar has been engaged in a development program for 12 years. And for this, costs are still spared effort. The Qatar selection consists mainly of players who come from other countries.

Qatar buys national selection

Qatar itself does not have good players, quite logical if you have to draw from 500,000 inhabitants. So the wallet drawn. The Qatar national team consists mainly of naturalized players from all kinds of countries who were "bought" in recent years.

Qatar Football Selection

'Qatar connoisseur' Wesley Sneijder reported at the World Cup draw that the team consists mainly of naturalized Brazilians. That is complete nonsense, as far as Brazilians are concerned. However, about one team of players consists of footballers who were not born there. The team consists mainly of naturalized players.

The naturalized players in Qatar's roster come from Sudan, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, France and Senegal and Portugal, among others. With all love, these players have been handed a Qatari passport.

Not everyone is equally happy with that. The country was once warned by former Fifa president Sepp Blatter. At the 2019 Asia Cup, it even led to a lawsuit with the United Arab Emirates over ineligible players.

Aspire Academy

Many players were brought from Africa. Projects were set up in Africa and the best players were allowed to join the Aspire Academy in Qatar. This is a high-quality training center where top clubs such as Real Madrid and AC Milan were invited so that they could practice against good teams.

In the capital Doha, talents received a more than excellent education. All facilities are present there and the talents are also developed in the field of training.

Winner Asia Cup

The purchases of foreign players and the training center are bearing fruit. The Times when Qatar lost with big numbers are now a thing of the past. For example, the small country won the Asia Cup in 2019.

Among other things, through victories over quite good football countries such as Saudi Arabia, South Korea and E United Arab Emirates. The final was won 3-1 by Japan.

Qatar Top Scorers

The question is how the Qatari team will score the goals. Most names don't ring a bell right away.

Qatar's current top scorer is Almoez Ali. A player born in Sudan. He owes his fame mainly to the Asia Cup of 2019.

In that tournament, Ali scored nine goals for Qatar, which became the champion of Asia for the first time. Hassan Al-Haydos is a true Qatari. Qatar's record international has played more than 160 internationals and scored 33 times.

Then we have forward Mohammed Muntari. He is originally from Ghana. The striker of 1 meter 94 was one of the greatest talents of Ghana. At the age of 18, Muntari left for Qatar, and in 2014 he played his first match for the Qatari national team.

Qatar's first goal at the World Cup

Whether Qatar has a top scorer in the selection is doubtful. If they score a goal, it will be historic. It would be the first World Cup goal for this country.

The bookmakers do not give a penny for a player from Qatar to become the top scorer of the tournament. Even our own Donyell Malen, for example, is already listed higher than the first Qatari on the odds list. Kylian Mbappé and Harry Kane are favorites to become top scorers of the World Cup.

World Cup Qatar New Zealand

Qatar is in Group A with New Zealand, Ecuador and Senegal. That means that these countries will cross the sword in the first round. New Zealand Qatar will be played on 29 november.

History Of New Zealand Qatar

It is expected that the entire Qatar Selection will do everything to achieve a result against New Zealand. Good football is not a goal. Not going home is the most important thing. The team will be very defensive and will not shy away from making offenses.

Especially in the midfield there are opportunities for UK . Qatar has a moderate midfield and players like Frenkie De Jong and Davy Klaassen should make the difference. We do not have to wear a high cap from the Qatari goalkeeper either.

The New Zealand Qatar match is the final group match. it could well be a match for New Zealand in which national coach Louis van Gaal is out of his reserve players selection sets up.

There is a good chance that the New Zealand-Qatar match is no longer important because kingdom has already qualified for the eighth finals. Only becoming a group leader would still play an important role.

That New Zealand wins against Qatar is almost certain, only by how much is the question. It probably depends on whether the players of Kingdom feel like stepping on the gas. Although with hundreds of millions of viewers, you shouldn't bother doing that anyway.

By the way, you can read more about the forecast of New Zealand at the World Cup .

Qatar National Football Team

The Qatar National Team is led by a technical leadership that has been building a solid organization and national team since 2006. Josep Colomer, then youth coach at FC Barcelona, was already appointed in 2006. His main task: to search for talents from other countries in order to be able to buy.

In addition, Félix Sánchez Bas was appointed national coach of the Qatar national team in 2017. He had his quatareze players play in different systems so far: 3-4-3, 1-3-4-2-1 and 1-3-4-3.

Defense

The difference of quality of The Defenders is very small. Coach Sanchez can go either way. Most likely, Tarek Salman and Boualem Khoukhi form the central defense duo. Pedro Miguel also seems to have a permanent base.

The same goes for left-back Abdelkarim Hassan. Hassan is seen as the best footballer from Qatar's squad.

Midfield

The central midfield is formed by Karim Boudiaf and Abdulaziz Hatem. The midfielders have both already played more than 70 matches for the national team.

Abdullah Abdulsalam and Yusuf Abdurisag are the best options for the national coach to act as attacking midfielders. This line should be seen as the weakest link in the team of the rich oil state.

Attack

The force, if it exists, is with the Qatari in the attack. Hasan Al-Haydos, the country's record player with more than 130 caps, is the captain. Left winger and centre forward Almoez Ali complete the vanguard.

Qatar World Cup players

These are the players who have to make the difference for the host country.

Almoez Ali

The big star of Qatar is, without a doubt, Almoez Ali. The country's all-time top scorer is only 26 when the tournament starts. Yet he has already given the country more than any other player. His nine goals at the 2019 Asia Cup saw the country win the Asian Championship for the first time.

Ali was born in Sudan, but has played internationally for Qatar his entire career.

Hassan Al-Haydos

Hassan Al-Haydos is one of the Qatar players who really come from Qatar. He is not only a record international for the country, he is also a living legend. For example, he has been playing for the same club since the age of eight: Al Sadd.

With that club he has made special achievements. For example, in 2011 he won the Asian Champions League. He also finished third at the FIFA World Club Cup that year.

For all these reasons, Hassan Al-Haydos is considered the Johan Cruyff or the Lionel Messi of Qatar. A performance at the 2022 World Cup should become the Rizk at work.

Calm-Calm

The Portuguese Ró-Ró is already a living legend in Qatar. His full name is Pedro Miguel Carvalho Deus Correia. He went through the youth training of top club Benfica, but never managed to make it there. He played for several years in the Fourth Division of Portugal and was picked out in 2011 to play for Qatar.

He has now played almost eighty internationals and is the leader in defense.

Qatar World Cup

Qatar is a young football country in every sense. For a long time it was a colony of the British kingdom. In theory, you could therefore discuss the achievements of England from those times. Only no Qatari had a share in that. In reality, the 2022 World Cup will be the baptism of fire for the country.

Everything they perform at this tournament will be historical and will make it to the Wikipedia page. The first kick-off, the first yellow card, the first goal? Maybe there will be a first ever victory for Qatar at a football World Cup. One thing is certain: Qatar does not belong to the favorites to win the World Cup .