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