The Iraqi Football Federation announced that the results of PCR tests of Bashar Rasan and Ayman Hussein in Tehran were negative, but the key player of the team, Amjad Atwan, lost the chance of playing a game versus Iran because of the Positive result.

 The Iraqi national football team will face Iran on Thursday in one of the most crucial qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup for both teams, As soon as the Iraqi convoy arrived in Tehran, they were tested for corona, which resulted in 5 positive results, but the Iraqi convoy objected to this result. The Iraqi Football Federation announced that the results of the second PCR test taken from the team’s squad in Tehran were different, so that in the second test, only the goalkeepers’ coach, doctor, and accountant tested positive.

The Iraqi Football Federation hopes that the third test will be taken from the team’s convoy today (Tuesday). According to the Iraqi Football Federation, the results of the PCR test of Bashar Rasan and Ayman Hussein, who recently arrived in Tehran from Qatar, were negative, but Amjad Atwan was positive. Bashar Rasan received a warm and special welcome when he landed in Imam Airport with many fans waiting for him for signatures and selfies. Basha was a Perspolis player and a popular one amomh=gst the fans before he transferred to Qatar Star League.

Iraq has lost several players to injuries where some players invited late, refused to join the camp.

Iraq has undergone extensive changes in the format of the team since the last meeting with Iran with the newly-recruited coach.   Montenegro’s coach Zeljko Petrovicه, who previously served as Dick Advocaat’s assistant in the Iraqi coaching staff, has left the Montenegrin coach took over the Iraqi national team.

Petrovic, who has recently been involved in the FIFA Arab Cup, has set new goals for the match, and there are generally a number of inexperienced but European footballers who have joined the national team due to their Iraqi citizenship.

They have come. This Montenegrin coach has invited 21 players to play against Iran and in the absence of many famous players of his team, as follows: Ahmad Farhan, Hassan Abdolkarim, Hossein Ali, Mohammad Ali Abboud, Yasser Qasim, Hassan Raed, Shirko Karim, Manaf Younes, Mustafa Nazem, Ahmad Ibrahim, Saad Abdul Amir, Hossein Jabbar, Bashar Rasan, Amjad Atwan, Ali Faez, Mohannad Jaz, Amir Al-Amari, Frans Zia, Ali Al-Hamadi, Zidan Iqbal and Ayman Hussein.

The 13 legionnaires in the Iraqi national team are Mustafa Nazem (Al-Najma Bahrain), France Putres (Weiburg, Denmark), Zidane Iqbal (Manchester United), Ali Al-Hamdi (Wycombe Wanderers England), Ali Faiz (Al-Qadisiyah Kuwait), Amjad Atwan Al-Shamal, Qatar), Bashar Rasan (Qatar Qatar), Ayman Hussein (Umm Salal Qatar), Mohannad Jaaz (Hammarby Sweden), Elmir Al-Amari (Gothenburg Sweden) and Hussein Ali (Safaqi Tunisia) are employed. 13 players with less than 8 national games As mentioned, the process of generational change in the Iraqi national team has been keyed with Petrovich, and this coach, by selecting Iraqi football talents from all over the world, seeks to rejuvenate and prepare his team for future seasons.

As a result, 13 players with less than 8 national games can be seen in the current line of this team, which has reduced the experience level of the Iraqi national team on the eve of the match against Iran. Dick Advocaat and then Zeliko Petrovic’s missions and the absence of two players from the Iraqi squad from the last match of the Iraqi national team against Iran, which was held on September  Qatar and was accompanied by a 3-0 victory of Iran against this team. The team of this team was invited and at present Iraq is not available for various reasons in the recent meeting with Iran. Mohammad Daud, Alaa al-Mahawi, Safa Hadi, Hammam Tariq, Alaa Abdul Zahra, Jalal Hassan, Saad Nategh, Justin Maram, Mohannad Ali, Zargham Ismail, Rabin Solaka, and Ahmad Basil are among the well-known people.