Qatari national team has only 4 Qataris

CAIRO – 4 July 2017: Qatar’s national sports teams has nearly no Qatari nationals. The national football team, which will play in the Qatari-hosted World Cup in 2022, only has four players with Qatari origins. Qatar’s national handball team too, were found to have many with foreign nationalities. Qatar hosted the handball world cup last year. Thirteen nationalities besides Qatari are participating in the football national team in all positions of the pitch, those players are:

Yusuf Ahmed (Somalia).

Lacoumet Amin (France).

Sebastian Soria (Uruguay).

Pedro Miguel (Portugal).

Mohamed Kasola (Senegal).

Khalifa Abu Bakr(Cameroon).

Ibrahim Magid(Palestine).

Ali Asad (Iraq).

Ahmed Yasser (Egypt).

Ahmed Abdel Maqsood (Egypt).

Ali Afif (Yemen).

Akram Afif (Yemen).

Karim Boudaif (Algeria).

Bualem Khoukhi (Algeria).

Ismail Mohamed (Sudan).

Moiz Ali (Sudan).

Abdul Kareem Hassan (Sudan).

Mahdi Ali (Sudan).

Abdul Aziz Hatem (Sudan).

Mohamed Musa (Sudan).



The Qatari national team - Designed by Ahmed Hussein