/ Football fans are waiting to watch the Asian Cup, which will be held in Qatar during the period from January 12 to February 10, with the participation of 24 teams. The South Korean and Japanese teams supported their list with many shining stars in European stadiums, and 10 are participating in the tournament. Arab teams, Asian stadiums await 10 stars who are expected to shine in the tournament.
Musa Al-Taamari (Jordan)
The Jordanian star, a professional in Montpellier, France, is the first Jordanian to play in the five major leagues.
The star, known as Jordan’s Messi, leads the Jordanians’ dreams of repeating the achievements of 2004 and 2011 by qualifying for the quarter-finals of the continental championship.
The Asian participation will not be the first for Musa Al-Taamari, who participated in the previous edition in 2019 in the Emirates, and succeeded in scoring a goal and two assists in 3 matches.
Musa Al-Taamari began his professional career at APOEL in Cyprus and won the best player award in the league in 2019. He moved to Leuven in Belgium, before moving to Montpellier in France.
Musa scored 13 goals with his country in 58 matches.
Takefusa Kubo (Japan):
Real Sociedad’s Japanese star, Kubo, has high hopes for Japanese fans in light of the absence of Brighton’s English star, Kaoru Mitoma, due to injury.
Kubo excelled with his Spanish team, and succeeded in leading them through the group stage of the Champions League, topping their group at the expense of Benfica of Portugal, Inter of Italy, and Red Bull Salzburg of Austria.
The 22-year-old player began his career in the Barcelona academy, and when he reached 18 years old, he moved to Real Madrid, but he did not play any official match with the Royal team, so he moved on to several experiences in the Spanish League, ending with Real Sociedad, which witnessed his brilliance.
Kubo’s participation in the Asian Championship will be the first in his career.
This season, the Japanese star played 25 matches with his team in all competitions, scoring 6 goals and providing 3 assists.
Mehdi Taremi (Iran):
The striker of the Iranian national team and the Portuguese club Porto, has excelled remarkably in the Portuguese stadiums since joining the team in 2020.
In 2023, Taremi scored 26 goals for his team, and seeks to lead his country to win the championship and equal Japan’s record as the most successful Asian team.
Iran has not won the Asian Cup since 1976, and Taremi, along with his teammates, seeks to end those lean years in which the Asian Cup estranged his country.
Salem Al-Dosari (Saudi Arabia)
The star of Al Hilal Saudi Club, whose brilliance in the Qatar World Cup 2022 witnessed his brilliance and leadership of his country to victory against world champion Argentina in the group stage.
Al-Dosari, the best player in Asia last season, hopes to lead the Saudi Greens to equal the Japanese team and win the Asian Championship for the fourth time in history, in light of the great development in Saudi football and the bringing in of international stars.
Italian Roberto Mancini will certainly rely on Al-Dosari to lead the Green attack in the Asian Cup.
Almoez Ali (Qatar)
Qatar fans hope that Almoez Ali will regain the level he showed for Al Annabi in the 2019 tournament in the Emirates.
At that time, Almoez Ali succeeded in scoring 9 goals, achieving a record as the player who scored the most goals in a single edition, surpassing the Iranian Ali Daei.
Al-Moez, along with his teammates at the time, led his country to win the first continental championship in the history of Qatar.
Takehiro Tomiyasu (Japan national team)
Defender of the Japanese national team and Arsenal club, who shines on the English field, for the second year in a row.
Tomiyasu had several experiences before arriving at the Gunners, with the Belgian clubs Sint-Truiden and the Italian club Bologna.
The Japanese player can play in the positions of right and left back and centre-back, participates in building attacks, and excels in air games, as he is 1.88 cm tall, and is one of the tallest players on the Japanese national team roster.
Tomiyasu forms a strong duo with veteran team captain Maya Yoshida.
Kim Min Jae (South Korea)
One of the most expensive players in the Asian Championship, he moved to Bayern Munich from Napoli for 60 million euros.
Kim has become a strong element in the defense of the Korean national team, as well as in Bayern Munich, along with Thomas Tuchel, the coach of the Bavarian team.
German coach Jurgen Klinsmann has high hopes for Kim to lead Korea’s defense in the tournament.
Last season, Kim succeeded in winning the Italian League with Napoli.
Justin Hubner (Wolverhampton)
For the first time, Indonesia’s list includes a player in the English Premier League, Wolverhampton defender Justin Huebner.
The 20-year-old defender, who stands 1.87cm tall, played for the Netherlands youth national team, before being lured by his native Indonesia to play for their national team in the Asian Cup.
Indonesia, supported by its young player, hopes to skip the group stage in its fifth participation in the Asian Cup.
Zidane Iqbal (Iraq)
The Iraqi professional player in the Dutch club Utrecht, who transferred to him from England’s Manchester United.
Despite his absence due to injury this season and his participation in only 3 matches, the Iraqi fans have high hopes for him during the tournament, recalling memories of Iraq in 2007.
Iqbal played for Manchester United for some minutes in the Champions League, against Young Boys, last season.
The player’s future witnessed a conflict between Iraq, his country of origin, and England, whose nationality he holds, before the player resolved the conflict and joined the Arab national team.
Son Heung-min (South Korea)
One of the most prominent names in English stadiums with Tottenham.
Son is the leader of South Korea’s dreams in the Asian Championship, as the Korean star played 114 international matches, and played in 3 Asian Cup tournaments before the Qatar 2024 Championship.
He was also crowned the best player in Asia 8 times, the player of the season twice with Tottenham, and was crowned equally with Mohamed Salah in the Golden Boot award for the 2021-2022 season.