Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): This game was Ashley Westwood's first experience on the bench of the country's national team, who had only trained with the team for a few days. This meeting was held in the absence of 18 key players of the national team who had protested due to corruption in the Football Federation and Yusuf Kargar personally.

 

After the farewell and banning of these players, the football federation once again turned to domestic players and some former national team players such as Islamuddin Amiri and Bilal Arouz, who are at the end of their football careers and play in Canadian amateur leagues and Norway's fourth level. brought

 

While the national team of the country had succeeded in the last game they played against the national team of Qatar in 2019, by showing a good game in Tajikistan with the loss of a penalty by Imran Heydari, the national team of Qatar succeeded in defeating Afghanistan with the result Mild 1-0 is hard to beat.

 

The Afghanistan national team will have to face the Kuwait national team in Saudi Arabia in their second match on the 30th of Scorpio in four days.

 

Afghanistan is grouped with Qatar, Kuwait and India in this competition.