Bahrain national football team ready for the 2023 AFC Cup qualifies in Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Jun 2 (BNA): Bahrain National Football Team arrived in Malaysia to take part in the third round of the 2023 Asia Cup qualifiers which will be held in Kuala Lumpur on June 8-14. Bahrain has been drawn in Group E, which also includes host country, Malaysia, in addition to Bangladesh and Turkmenistan. The national squad will play Bangladesh on Wednesday (June 8) before taking on respectively Malaysia (June 11) and Turkmenistan (June 14). Six teams topping their groups will qualify to the 2023 AFC Cup, along with five best second-placed teams. Fourteen countries have already booked a berth in the continentinental tournament. Bahrain will take Thailand tomorrow, Tuesday, in a friendly football match. The national team is conducting a training camp until the end of this month, ahead of the 2023 Asia Cup qualifiers which will be held in Malaysia. Led by Portuguese coach Helio Sousa, the national team includes 24 players- Abbas Ayyad, Jamal Rashid, Mohammed Abdulwahab, Ahmed Abdulla, Ahmed Boughmar, Mahdi Humaidan, Mohammed Adel, Omar Saber, Ammar Mirza, Sayyed Dhiya Said, Sayyed Shebber Alawi, Abdulla Al Hazza, Ali Haram, Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, Abdulla Youssef, Ammar Mohammed, Ibrahim Al Khattal, Mahdi Abduljabbar, Mahdi Abdullatif, Abdelwahab Al Malud, Amine bin Udai, Rashid Al Hooti, Sayyed Mohammed Jaffer and Waleed Hayyam. Bahrain beat Myanmar 2-0 before edging Thailand 2-1 in two friendly matches in Bangkok as part of its training camp.