Maldives team departs to India

Feb 03, 2016 - 02:42:08 |
National team coach Ricki Herbert

Male’, MALDIVES – Maldives U23 football team has departed to India this morning to compete in the upcoming SAFF Games to be held in Guwahatim India. Maldives team consists of 23 players and 8 officials.

National team coach, Ricki Herbert has included some new players and majority of the players are from the team competed in the Bangabandhu Gold Cup last month. New players included in the team are Ahmed Wisam from Valencia, Mohamed Jazlan from Mahibadhoo, Mohamed Muslih from New Radiant and Hussain Shareef from Maziya. The three over age players are Ashad Ali, Ali Fasir and Ismail Easa.

Ricki Herbert included two fresh goal keepers in the team who always said previously that he was preparing a young team for the SAFF Games. Keeper Jazlan and Hussain Shareef didn’t had a single training session with the national team after the SAFF Suzuki Cup.

The following are the final squad for the SAFF Games:

Mohamed Hamza

Adam Isham

Mohamed Saaif

Ahmed Suhail

Mohamed Muslih

Ibrahim Haseeb

Hussain Shareef

Gasim Samaam

Samooh Ali

Ismail Easa

Ahmed Nashid

Ansar Ibrahim

Hussain Sifaau Yoosuf

Abdulla Fayaz

Ali Fasir

Muruthala Adhnan

Hassan Naiz

Ibrahim Waheed Hassan

Ahmed Wisam

Mohamed Jazlan

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trsmq on Feb 03
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dont think maldives will win any match. will conceed more than four goals. overall team performance has gone down. youth players skills are way lower than other saff countries/
Fan on Feb 03
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Better not to have too high hopes of this team doing any better than the last two tournaments. We have to accept the fact that our players fitness is not good enough in a tournament where you have to play every other day. We are at best semi-final material at our current standard. Instead India and to a certain extent Sri Lanka have taken big strides in the development of their age group players while we have been gloating about our so-called untouchable technical abilities. What is so good about technical abilities if you get drained in the first 45 minutes and have stemina of an old man.This is go down as yet another tournament our strength will come undone at the semi.
foari on Feb 04
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Good luck Coach n Imma
boyko on Feb 04
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It seems coach has said for him any result would be satisfactory. What does he mean? Does he mean it is okay for him if the players did not try as much as they could, even if high work-rate is more likely to pay dividends? Does he mean they can play safe and sit on their laurels rather than play a good game of football in search of confidence-boosting win? What kind of message is he trying to convey to the players and at large to the hurting fans? If this is the kind of message he has ahead of yet another tournament after unexpected exits from the last two tournaments we many as well resign to the fact we are doomed to yet another shocking exit. If the coach has nothing inspiring to say, what more could you expect!
rudy on Feb 21
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coach know he will not win any game he know that
footballmad on Feb 04
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All the best to the youth team! Whatever you don't lose to Sri Lanka! With a win in the first match, we'll be more upbeat going into the match against India.
adddf on Feb 06
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ahmed nashid is 26 yrs old... hows he playing if hes not included as an over age player
Rudy on Feb 21
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ricky you know you cannot win any game,poor Ricky struggling always in his coaching game back home and coach FC TAWA

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