Two of the most prominent players of the Syrian national football team will miss the match with South Korea in the third qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup, which is scheduled to be held next Thursday, due to an administrative error.
The Syrian team had arrived in South Korea, without its players Muhammad Othman, player of the Dutch team Sparta Rotterdam, and Ayaz Othman, midfielder of the Greek club Unikos. Who will miss this important match for the Syrian national team.
Activists on the communication sites described this error as a “scandal of a strong type”, caused by the Syrian Football Association. They indicated that among the mission that arrived in the UAE first to set up a camp there (late last month) before heading to Korea, there were names that had nothing to do with the national team, but they only went for “tourism”.
The Football Association’s justifications came on its Facebook page, on Tuesday evening, where it attributed the failure to the Korean embassy in Lebanon, which indicated, according to the federation’s statement, that “the two players” can travel to Seoul through their European passports, while the union worked to obtain the Korean visa. On the Syrian players’ passports, however, the passports were not handed over to the “players” and the cadre forgot them trapped in drawers in Damascus.
The Syrian national team plays in the first group of Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, along with Lebanon, Iraq, the UAE, Iran and South Korea.
The Syrian team had lost during its first match in early September, with its Iranian counterpart, with a goal without a response in Tehran, while it tied in the second match with the UAE team, with a goal to goal, which was held in the Jordanian capital, Amman, which is the virtual land of the Syrian team.