Renard: We live a wonderful period for Saudi football.. so we have to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2022

2022-03-23
18:34:01

The coach of the national team, "Herve Renard," spoke at the press conference held this evening to talk about preparations to face China in the ninth round of the final Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, and said: "We are at the end of the road to end these long qualifiers that started since August 2019, Now we are facing a crucial week to determine the teams that will get direct qualifications to the 2022 World Cup, so it is a difficult week for all the teams looking to qualify”.

On the public support for the Saudi national team behind the screens, Hervé Renard replied: "I always repeat to the players that the Saudi people have been behind them since the beginning of the qualifiers, and I assure them that these fans are always looking forward to having their country's team in the World Cup, and for that we worked well from the beginning, but we haven't finished achieving our goal yet, so we are more focused, willing and determined to win tomorrow in order to make them happy".

Herve Renard revealed that persistence, desire and focus are the keys to victory, and said: "We must respect the Chinese team, in return we must focus on ourselves, everything is in our own hands, and I always repeat that determination, desire and focus whenever they are present will achieve our goal".

About the readiness of Firas Al-Braikan for tomorrow's match, he said: "Yesterday, Tuesday, he was at the camp with his colleagues, and we will work on preparing him for the next match against the Australian team".

About the great interest that Saudi football receives, he said: "A wonderful period for Saudi football in which we feel the reality of this support and ambition from the government and the people, so we bear the duty to qualify the Saudi national team to the 2022 World Cup, just in order to give them thanks and gratitude for this great support".