Baghdad – IA – Ihsan Al-Marsoumi
Our national football team continues its preparations to meet its Philippine host tomorrow, Tuesday, for the fourth round of Group Six of the preliminary qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and 2027 Asian Nations.
The media coordinator for the national team, Muhammad Imad, told the (INA), today, Monday: “Training is continuing in full swing in order to reach full readiness before the return match,” indicating that “the team’s management conducted a visit to the Philippines as a proactive step to prepare the appropriate atmosphere regardless of the return match.” Regardless of the place of residence and meals, we inspected the match field and the training field, as it turned out that the match field was covered with artificial turf and the training field with natural grass, so we asked for the training units to be established in the same field where the match will be held in order to get used to that ground.”
Imad added, “The match is exceptional because of the pitch, so the coach will change the style of play as if he is playing a rainy match or with a bad pitch,” noting that “Coach Casas does not reveal the starting lineup early, but is careful to keep it secret until the last lecture, that is, before The match is in two hours.”