Ismail Ahmed, Director of our First Team of Football praised the external training camp held in Austria and the benefit the players acquired during the training camp. Ismail said in a statement to the club’s official website: Preparing for the new season is going in a distinct way, even though we miss a lot of our first players who joined the national team that is preparing for their historic appearance in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. Despite this shortage in players, we are confident in the ability to respond in the desired results from them in the first rounds of the league.

Ismail said: Since the start of the preparations for the new season, we witnessed huge desire and determination from the side the players to implement the instructions of the technical staff in order to gain the required physical fitness, which was clear in the friendly matches the team conducted, noting that The team played 4 matches, won in two, drew in one and lost one match, which is good for the technical staff, who dealt with all the errors that appeared, and now we have reached the final stage of preparation, in which the players exert good efforts, and that is an indication of the success of the preparation period, and God willing, the team will appear in the required form in confrontations of this season.

Ismail concluded: The presence of a large number of our main players with the national team, which is a good thing for us, and it means that Al Duhail has a distinguished group of players that contributes to the presentation of Al Annabi in a manner that reflects the development of Qatari football.