TDT | Manama
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Bahrain’s senior men’s national football team returned to the pitch for ongoing training sessions under coach Juan Antonio Pizzi.
Bahrain’s national team won 2-0 against Kyrgyzstan in an international friendly on Thursday night at the Sheikh Ali bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Stadium, Muharraq Club in Arad.
They will make further adjustments on Tuesday against the Philippines.
The match is scheduled to kick off at 7pm at the same venue.
The friendly is part of the national team’s preparations as they begin their continental qualifying campaign for the 2026 FIFA World Cup next month.
They are also scheduled to participate in the next AFC Asian Cup to be held in Doha next January.
Bahrain is Mohamed Abdulwahab, Abdullah Al Hasash, Saeed Mohamed Ja’afar, Mohamed Adel, Walid Al Hayyam, Amin Hassan, Abdullah Al Harashi, Mohamed Al Hadan, Komail Al. He returned to training with a squad of 34 players including Aswad and Ali Madan. Mahdi Humaidan, Abdullah Yusuf, Mohamed Marhoun, Moses Atedeh, Ahmed Bouganmal, Saeed Mahdi Baqer, Saeed Diya Saeed, Hussein Al-Ekri, Hazza Ali, Mohammed Abdul-Qayyum, Jassim Al-Shaikh, Ali Hassan Saeed, Abdulaziz Khaled, Salem Omar, Hamza Al-Juban, Mubarak Mohammed, Ahmed Al-Sheruki, Ebrahim Al-Khattar, Ebrahim Rutufallah, Hussein Abdul Kareem, Hamad Al Doseri, Salem Hussein, Ebrahim Al Wali, Jassim Khelaif.
The visiting Philippine team includes Neil Etheridge, Julian Schwarzer, Kevin Ray Mendoza, Jesse Curran, Daisuke Sato, Audie Menzi, Santiago Rubrico, Jefferson Tabina, Simone Rota, Enrique Linares, and Joshua Gromen. , Dennis Villanueva, Kevin Ingleso, Justin Barth, and Jean-Jean Meliza. , Manuel Ott, Mike Ott, Sandro Reyes, Marwin Angeles, Jose Elmer Porteria, Patrick Reichert, Bienvenido Maranon, Pocholo Bugas, Gervais Gayoso, Kenshiro Daniels.
The Filipinos have been on the island since last week and are scheduled to play another friendly against Kyrgyzstan this morning. In the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Bahrain will play head-to-head in the second of five qualifying rounds.
They are in a competitive Group H with the UAE, Yemen or Sri Lanka, Nepal or Laos. In the AFC Asian Cup, Bahrain are in Group E of the preliminary round along with South Korea, Malaysia and Jordan.
Head coach Juan Antonio Pizzi during a training session