QSL: Al-Gharafa SC Continues Intensive Preparations

Doha, September 01 (QNA) - Al-Gharafa SC football team continue its preparations and intensive training for its counterpart Al-Kharaitiyat in a friendly next Saturday as a part of the two teams preparations for the start of the new season (2021/22) of the Qatar Football League (QNB Stars League). Andrea Stramaccioni, the Italian coach of Al-Gharafa team, seeks to benefit from the friendly after returning from camp in Germany. Al-Gharafa enters the new season with great ambitions in order to restore the podiums, and has made tangible changes to the football team by contracting the Italian coach Stramaccioni to take over the responsibility of training the team, plus signing Algerian Mehdi Tahrat, and kept Algerian Sofiane Hanni and Ivorian Jonathan Kodjia. Al-Gharafa seek to contract with another two foreign professionals after dispensing Mexican Hctor Moreno, Algerian Adlene Guedioura and South Korean Ja Cheol. (QNA)