Team profile: Saudi Arabia

Plenty of money floats around their domestic league, yet this has done little to improve the standard of the national team. An impatient governing body is also onto their third coach since World Cup qualifying began. Still not all hope is lost given the fact this is their fourth consecutive appearan

FIFA Ranking: 34

Coach: Paqueta

Key players: Sami Al-Jaber, Mohammad Al-Shlhoub, Yasser Al-Kahtani

World Cup record: Fourth appearance

Best finish: Second round (1994)

Last appearance: First round 2002

Qualifying route: Won Asian Group A

Key question: Can a side that was humiliated at the last World Cup be competitive this time around?

Squad:

Goalkeepers#
Mohammad Al-Deayea1
Mabrouk Zayed21
Mohammad Khouja22
Defenders
Ahmad Dokhi2
Redha Tukar3
Hamad Al-Montashari4
Naif Al-Qadi5
Abdul Aziz Khathran12
Hussein Sulimani13
Ahmad Al-Bahri15
Midfielders
Omar Al-Ghamdi6
Mohammad Ameen7
Mohammad Noor8
Mohammad Al-Shlhoub10
Saoud Khariri14
Khaled Aziz16
Nawaf Al-Temyat18
Mohammad Masaad19
Forwards
Sami Al-Jaber9
Saad Al-Harthi11
Mohammad Al-Anbar17
Yasser Al-Kahtani20
Malek Mouath23

Group matches:

v Tunisia, 16:00 GMT, Wednesday 14th June – Munich

v Ukraine, 16:00 GMT, Monday 19th June – Hamburg

v Spain, 14:00 GMT, Friday 23rd June – Kaiserslautern

 

Source: Al Jazeera