Saudi futsal team turns the game around Iraq in friendly

2019-10-08
22:32:23

The Saudi Arabian national futsal team made a comeback against Iraq to get a 5-3 win after going 3-0 down in the first half, in a friendly took place, on Tuesday, at General Sport Authority Arena, Dammam.
Nasser Al-Harthi, Faisal Al-Sultan, Gohar Gamah (2 goals) and Abdel Elah Al-Etebi netted for the Saudi team.
For his part, Coach Luis Fonseca, gave the chance to the most number of players, using the rotation system to test them properly in different places before heading to Bahrain,
The game was attended by Ibrahim Al Kassim, the secretary general of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, SAFF.
This game came within preparations of the Saudi and the Iraqi teams for west zone qualifiers of The AFC Futsal Championship, which will be played in Bahrain, Manama, from 16th to 22nd of October.
It must be mentioned that the Saudi team comes 79th in national futsal teams ranking, while Iraq team comes 47th.