Saudi Arabia drawn in group with Iran and North Korea at Asian Games

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Saad Al-Shehr will lead Saudi Arabia at the Asian Games. (AFP) Updated 06 July 2018 Kevin Affleck July 06, 2018 15:25 474 Myanmar make up the quartet in Group F Coach Saad Al-Shehri has named a 28-man squad Saudi Arabia"s U-23 squad will meet the 2014 silver medalists after the groups were drawn for the Asian Games next month. The young Green Falcons have been placed in Group F along with North Korea, who lost 1-0 in extra time to South Korea four years ago, Iran and Myanmar. The group winners and runners-up as well as four best teams in third place in the groups will qualify for the knockout round of the tournament which runs in Indonesia from Aug. 18 to Sept. 2. Saudi Arabia will play Iran on Aug. 15, Myanmar two days later and then the crunch clash against North Korea on Aug. 21. The final is at the Pakansari Stadium on Sept. 1. Saudi reached the quarterfinal four years ago, losing 3-0 to Iraq but they were runners-up in 1986 and finished third in 1982. Coach Saad Al-Shehri will be hoping his side perform better than they did at December"s Gulf Cup where they failed to get out of the group. He will prepare his players by taking them to the Czech Republic for a training camp between July 9 and July 28. He named the following squad: Mohamed al-Rabihi Mohamed al-Bassas Abdullah Hassoun AbdulBasit hindi Faisal Darisi Ali Al-Asmari Yussof Al-Harbi AbdulRahman Al-Gharib Ayman Al-Khlif Abdullah Majrishi Mansoor al-Mawled Nawwaf Abu Amer Saad al-Slouli Mohamed al-Zubaidi Saleh Al-Wahaymed Moutaeb Al-Hamad AbdulRahman Al-Dosary Anas Zubani Fahd Al-Roushaydi Nayef Kariri Amin Bukhari Aoun Slouli Hassan Abu Sharara Haroun Kamara Nasser Al-Omran Abdullah Al-Yussof Abdulilah Al-Omari Abdulkoudous Attiyah ASIAN GAMES DRAW Group A Indonesia Hong Kong Laos Chinese Taipei Group B Thailand Uzbekistan Bangladesh Qatar Group C Iraq China PR Timor-Leste Syria Group D Japan Vietnam Pakistan Nepal Group E South Korea Kyrgyzstan Malaysia Bahrain Group F North Korea Saudi Arabia Iran Myanmar

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