World Cup
Jordanian coach Adnan Hamad talks to Al Jazeera about the Arab’s functionality at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Jordan’s soccer team failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, which is being held for the first time in the Middle East, but the team director is still pleased to watch the tournament from the stands.
Adnan Hamad of Iraq failed to lead his team to the World Cup after being eliminated by Australia at the time of qualifying.
The 61-year-old called up to Iraq’s national team for the first time as a player in the 1984 Gulf Cup. From 2009 to 2013, he coached the Jordan national team and led it to the quarterfinals of the 2011 Asian Cup. and the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup.
Here, he talks to Al Jazeera about the Jordanian team’s failure to participate in the World Cup and offers his predictions about the functionality of Arab teams:
Al Jazeera: What happened in Jordan’s qualification procedure and what are the team’s hopes for the 2026 World Cup?
Hamad: The team missed a wonderful opportunity, especially considering their performances compared to last year. However, it is about the right point of non-stop play and the positive effects. Our goal is to do better after grades and get opposite positive effects. to the big teams and gaining an intelligent organization of players. This provides us with a primary motivation to succeed in the future.
Our ambition is already clear: to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.
This ambition bears paintings and we have permanent meetings and expand intelligent plan. But what is vital is putting this plan into effect. Everyone will have to come together and cooperate to achieve the qualifying goal.
Al Jazeera: Four Arab groups (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Morocco) are in this year’s World Cup. How do you think they will do it?
Hamad: First of all, the Qatar team is another one of what it was. We are talking about a team that is now champion of Asia and has earned this title. We are talking about a team that has evolved a lot and a generation of players who have achieved wonderful things for Qatari football.
His ambitions will be wonderful, especially in what we have already noticed from his participation in the Copa America 2019 and the European qualifiers for the World Cup. All this shows that Qatar is capable of a wonderful performance. The Qatar team has a genuine chance to qualify. for the World Cup qualifiers.
The Saudi team can also put on a show, especially as this is their sixth World Cup appearance.
Today, Saudi football is obviously well evolved and the team showed the best technical grades in the playoffs. It has top-tier players and the strength of the local festival in the league is also superior, which is reflected in the team.
Tunisia is one of the most powerful African teams. It has many professional players from the major European leagues, so the goals of good fortune will be high, especially since they will enjoy wonderfully in the crowd.
The Moroccan team is the most productive Arab team betting on the World Cup in Qatar. It has 20 professional players from the main European championships. In the playoffs, it passed smoothly and has a main chance to get out of the group.
I think the Moroccan team has the most productive set of players, and the opportunity is in their hands to be the dark horse of the tournament.
Al Jazeera: Iraq has participated once in a World Cup. What do you think of your difficulties in reaching the tournament?
Hamad: It is because of Iraqi football that, despite its rich history and primary capabilities, it has not qualified for more World Cups. I was one of the players at the 1986 World Cup. We face primary groups in a difficult group. We lost 3 games, but the losses were not primary: we lost by one goal in each game.
At the time, we were struggling to replace coaches and there wasn’t much interest in competitions.
These reasons were enough not to win any in this tournament. I also think the turnout wasn’t positive enough, but the team had largely untapped talent.
This story was first published here in aljazeera. net.
The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.