Whites revealed

The UAE Football Association has announced the national team squad that will prepare for the final round of qualifiers for the 2010 Fifa World Cup and the forthcoming 2011 AFC Asian Cup.

The announcement came at an official press conference held by the UAE FA in Dubai where it was revealed the preparation programme will start on August 3.

The UAE will have a preparatory camp in Switzerland from August 3 to 14 before moving to France where they will stay until August 24. As previously reported, they will compete in a friendly match against Algeria on August 20.

After their French training camp, the Falcons will return to Abu Dhabi where they will have another preparatory camp and play a friendly match against Bahrain on August 29 – just eight days before kicking off the latter stages of their World Cup qualifying campaign against North Korea in Abu Dhabi.



UAE World Cup Squad

The UAE announced a 23-man squad for their World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers:

Majed Nasser
Ismail Rabie
Obaid Al Tawila
Haidar Alo Ali
Tareq Hassan
Basheer Saeed
Rashed Abdulrahman

Fares Juma
Abdullah Malallah

Saleh Obaid
Adel Abdulaziz
Helal Saeed

Abdulraheem Juma

Subait Khater

Mohammed Ibrahim

Abdullah Al Noobi

Mohammed Othman

Ahmed Mubarak

Ismail Al Hammadi

Ismail Matar

Faisal Khalil

Mohammed Al Shehhi

Saif Mohammed