SME – Written by: Muhammad Al-Joker
Our national football team will play two important matches against the brotherly Yemeni team in the next few days, and the technical staff of Al-Abyad announced the list, which includes some changes from the list that played in the last Asian Cup in Doha. We hope for success for our team in this mission, and we have great hope of surpassing the Yemeni team, and it must be We remind the reader that the Yemenis have played football for a long time and have stories and struggles. Many of them also participated in the Gulf region leagues, excelled and were stars, and some of them reached other Arab countries. The first official attendance of the Yemeni team in the Asian Cup came in the sixth tournament in 1976 in Tehran, and played The Yemeni team was in the group that included both Iran and Iraq. The Yemeni team lost both matches and was eliminated from the first round due to the strength of the two teams at that time. The Yemeni team competed in that tournament through the southern team and its big stars at the time, such as Abdullah Ba Amer, Jamil Saif, Abu Bakr Al-Mas and others. That generation was one of the greatest football generations that passed through Yemeni football, and it had previously achieved great results in that year in the Arab tournament in Syria, when Yemen defeated the host country, the Syrian team, and surpassed Saudi Arabia and the Mauritanian team, before clashing with its counterpart, the Moroccan team, and its great star in the tournament. The seventies Firas Ahmed.
Yemeni football has beautiful fingerprints in the past, and perhaps many of those interested and following know that the first club founded in the Arabian Peninsula was Al-Tilal Club from Aden in the year 1905, and it is the third Arab club after the Algerian club Constantine in the year 1898 and the Egyptian railway club in the year 1903. Therefore, the antiquity of Yemeni football is not… We must mention it and say, beware of the Yemeni national team!
