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-Deayea | 1 |
Mabrouk Zayed | 21 |
Mohammad Khouja | 22 |
Defenders | |
Ahmad Dokhi | 2 |
Redha Tukar | 3 |
Hamad Al-Montashari | 4 |
Naif Al-Qadi | 5 |
Abdul Aziz Khathran | 12 |
Hussein Sulimani | 13 |
Ahmad Al-Bahri | 15 |
Midfielders | |
Omar Al-Ghamdi | 6 |
Mohammad Ameen | 7 |
Mohammad Noor | 8 |
Mohammad Al-Shlhoub | 10 |
Saoud Khariri | 14 |
Khaled Aziz | 16 |
Nawaf Al-Temyat | 18 |
Mohammad Masaad | 19 |
Forwards | |
Sami Al-Jaber | 9 |
Saad Al-Harthi | 11 |
Mohammad Al-Anbar | 17 |
Yasser Al-Kahtani | 20 |
Malek Mouath | 23 |
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