{"id":7846,"date":"2025-06-04T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:18:40","slug":"al-ain-first-football-teams-expedition-departs-for-washington-d-c-the-capital-city-of-the-united-states-of-america-aboard-emirates-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/al-ain-first-football-teams-expedition-departs-for-washington-d-c-the-capital-city-of-the-united-states-of-america-aboard-emirates-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition departs for Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America, aboard Emirates Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">A new step for Al Ain first football team amongst global media attention<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s8\"><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition departs for Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America, aboard Emirates Airlines<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s9\">\n<p class=\"s10\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">On 02:20 AM of today\u2019s dawn (Tuesday), Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition departed from Dubai International Airport towards Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America. Al Ain first football team&#8217;s expedition flight was aboard Emirates Airlines, who is the club\u2019s official partner through the FIFA Clubs World Cup 2025 football tournament, which will be held for the first time according to its extended system with the participation of up to 32 football teams. The Boss will be representing the United Arab Emirates as the champion of the Asian continent for the 2023-2024 sporting season.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">An elevated morale statues prevails amongst the members of Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition, amongst great media attention from different outlets, which comes in line with the exceptional sought after aspirations, which promises an honorable participation with a brilliant performance through the tournament\u2019s competition race, the brilliant performance that embodies the elevated position of the United Arab Emirates football on the global theater.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The departed list of players witnessed the absence of a number of international players, who are officially participating with their national football teams, the list includes the following players:<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Khalid Eisa Mohammed Bilal Saeed Al Mesmari (who is the team\u2019s goalkeeper), Yahia Nader Moustafa Elsharif (who plays as a defensive midfielder), Kouame Autonne Kouadio (who plays as a center back defender), Soufiane Rahimi (who plays as a forward player), Alejandro Sebasti\u00e1n Romero Gamarra (nicknamed Kaku, who plays as an attacking midfielder), Park Yong-woo (who plays as a defensive midfielder). while it has been scheduled that those players will be joining Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition in Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America, a couple of days before the the tournament kicks-off.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The list also included the names of the new coming players who fortified the ranks of Al Ain first football team in preparation to take on the Clubs World Cup 2025 football tournament. Most notably we have Rui Pedro dos Santos Patr\u00edcio ComM, who is the Portuguese goalkeeper, Ramy Hisham Abdel Aziz Mostafa Rabia, who is the Egyptian center back defender, Adis Ja\u0161i\u0107, who is the Austrian midfielder, Marcel Ratnik, who is the Slovenian center back defender, as well as the top scorer of the Moroccan Botola Pro Inwi Al Hussain Rahimi, who is the Moroccan forward player, in addition to his countryman Yahia bin Khaliq, who is the Moroccan defender, and Jonatas da Anuncia\u00e7\u00e3o Santos (also known as Jonatas), who is the Brazilian winger returning to the ranks of Al Ain first football team after the end of his loan period to Al Wasl first football team.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The flight takes up to 14 hours and a half, while it has been scheduled for the expedition to arrive at Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America, at 08:30 AM Washington D.C time.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has already coordinated with the local authorities to facilitate all logistic arrangements related to the reception of Al Ain first football team.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">After arriving at Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America, \u201cThe Boss\u201d will be directly engaging in the technical program dedicated to its preparations, which includes playing two closed friendly matches, upon the request of the coaching staff.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\"><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Al Ain first football team will commence its journey through the competition race of the Clubs World Cup 2025 football tournament on the 18th of the current month of June, where he will be playing vs Juventus Football Club of Italy on the green pitch of Wahsington D.C\u2019s Audi Field stadium, through the competitions of group G. Then they will be playing vs Manchester City Football Club of the United Kingdom on the 22nd of the current month of June on the green pitch of Atalanta\u2019s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Then they will conclude their matches through the competitions of the group stage by playing vs Wydad Athletic Club of Morocco on the 26th of the current month of June on the green pitch of Audi Field stadium once more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new step for Al Ain first football team amongst global media attention Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition departs for Washington D.C, the capital city of the United States of America, aboard Emirates Airlines On 02:20 AM of today\u2019s dawn (Tuesday), Al Ain first football team\u2019s expedition departed from Dubai International Airport towards Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alainclub.ae\/fc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}