Saudi FootballUpdated November 4

Donis picks four Al-Ittihad players.

Al-Ittihad’s last two results were a 1-1 league draw with Abha and a 4-1 loss to UAE side Al Ain in the AFC Champions League Elite. Against that backdrop, Saudi coach Georgios Donis named four of the club’s players—Fares Abdi, Mukhtar Ali, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi and Marwan Al-Sahafi—in his 30-man squad for the next camp and friendlies against South Korea and Uzbekistan. Kooora reads the call-ups as a vote of confidence in Al-Ittihad coach Jens Wissing and a sign of the club’s quality; the report doesn’t quote Donis saying that himself. Donis had called up two Al-Ittihad players for the previous Gulf Cup: Mukhtar Ali, who is in the new squad too, and Hassan Kadesh, who is absent after an injury during the previous international break.

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