The top three teams of this tournament will qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. As Japan have already qualified as hosts and if they make it to the semi-finals, the remaining three teams are guaranteed qualification.
The Ministers of Finance of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the State of Kuwait…
1274 | the publication reaches you by | Bahrain NewsGroup ‘B’ consists of Qatar, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Syria while Group ‘C’ is made up of Uzbekistan, South Korea, China and Iran and Group ‘D’ has Vietnam, North Korea, Jordan and the UAE.
The top two from each group qualify for the quarter-finals to be held on January 18 and 19 while the semi-finals are slated for January 22. The third place match will be held on January 25 and the final on January 26.
Bahrain, who have qualified for this event for the first time since its inception in 2013, take on Thailand in the first match on Wednesday, clash with Iraq on January 11 and meet Australia on January 14.
Bahrain beat Vietnam 2-1 in a friendly match on Friday. Ahmed Saleh and Abdulrahman Al Ahmadi scored the goals.
The Bahrain delegation is headed by Olympic team director Shaikh Ahmed bin Isa Al Khalifa.
The Bahrain team: The Bahrain team: Abdul Rahman Al Ahmadi; Faisal Ebrahim; Hamza Al Jubn; Hassan Al Karrani; Ahmed Al Shoroogi; Hussain Jameel; Ahmed Saleh; Mohammed Al Hardan; Abdul Aziz Khalid; Adnan Fawwaz; Mohammed Marhoon; Hamad Shamsan; Sayed Hashim Isa; Hassan Madan; Ahmed Fadhil; Abbas Al Asfour; Sayed Mohammed Amin; Jassim Khlaif; Yousuf Habib; Ahmed Bo Ghammar; Anwar Ahmed; Salem Adel; Ammar Mohammed Coach: Samir Chamman.
Nvestox management had already staggered a ‘loop-work’ environment within their key teams trading all major global exchanges, so…
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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).This excludes the non-Arab state of Iran. All of these nations except Iraq are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
