2024-03-19T07:14:44+00:00
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/ The Iraqi youth team will open its participation in the West Asian U-23 Olympic Championship tomorrow, Wednesday, by meeting with the Australian Olympic team in the fourth group of the tournament, which takes place in a knockout manner.
The winner qualifies for the semi-finals, while the loser plays a match to determine places from fifth to eighth.
The team is led by assistant coach Hassan Turki, due to the punishment imposed by FIFA on the team’s main coach, Imad Mohamed, against the backdrop of a complaint by media personality Mona Sami.
The Iraqi youth team is conducting its last training session this evening, Tuesday, in preparation for the upcoming confrontation.
The delegation of the under-20 youth team, which will represent Iraq instead of the Iraqi Olympic team, arrived after its coach, Radhi Shanishil, apologized for not participating due to the imminent participation of his team in the Asian Championship. It arrived the day before yesterday, Sunday, to the city of Al-Ahsa in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to participate in the Fifth West Asian Federation Championship for National Teams. Olympic Under 23 years.
The 2024 West Asian Federation Cup will be held in the city of Al-Ahsa, starting on March 20, with the participation of 8 teams.
The teams of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, and the UAE from the West Asia region are participating in the tournament.
With invitations being extended to a number of teams outside the region, most notably Egypt from the African continent for the first time, and also other teams invited to participate in the tournament such as South Korea, Thailand and Australia as guests in that edition.
The Bahrain national team was the title holder in the last edition held in 2019 at the expense of Iraq.