Saleh Al-Shehri suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in his right leg and will arrive just barely until November. His team shares Group C with Argentina, Mexico and Poland.
The scorer of the selected Arabia Saudita, Saleh Al-Shehri, suffered a ruptured achilles tendon of the right leg and will arrive with just enough Qatar World Cup 2022in which his country shares Group C with Argentina, Mexico and Poland.
The 28-year-old striker was injured last Friday during the game of Al-Hilal, a team led by Ramón Díaz, in the Asian Champions League.
The Riyadh club confirmed in the last few hours that Al-Shehri, the Arab team’s top scorer in the Asian Qualifiers with seven goals, will have to undergo surgery in the coming days. Husually this injury requires a recovery of between four and six months so his return to the courts would be very close to the debut in the World Cup against Argentina, on November 22 at the Lusail stadium.
The Children of the Desert, as they are called, are one of the great Asian powers. They have three continental titles, but they haven’t been consecrated since 1996. In the 1994 World Cup, which was their first participation, it was the only time they got past the first round and they had four Argentine coaches against the national team: Solari, Gabriel Calderón, Edgardo Bauza and Juan Antonio Pizzi.
The Argentine National Team of Messi and company will debut against Saudi Arabia, led by Frenchman Hervé Renand, on Tuesday, November 22. La Pulga has a history facing the Children of the Desert, it was in 2012 at the beginning of Alejandro Sabella’s cycle. A friendly in Riyadh where the Argentine played the 90 minutes and the match ended 0-0.
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