The Iraqi national team coach, the Spanish Jesus Casas, continues to work and search for players to represent his team in the decisive Asian qualifiers, qualifying for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Jesus Casas is preparing to announce his final list to face me Palestine andSouth Korea On the tenth and fifteenth of next October, in the third and fourth rounds of Playoffs.
Jesus Casas has not settled on his choices
Sources told…win win“The Iraqi national team coach, Jesus Casas, has not yet settled on a number of positions in the Iraqi national team, including the midfield position, as well as the right and left back positions, as well as the center back position, which constitutes a chronic headache for the coach, as he has not found a final solution for it yet.” .
She added: “Coach Jesus Casas is very happy with what the Iraqi player Muhannad Jaaz is doing with his new Norwegian team, Lillestrom, as he has begun to regularly train and play regularly with the team, as the Spanish coach found that the player is very serious about regaining his levels, to be one of the important players in the Norwegian Premier League.” .
She continued: “Casas had a phone call with the forgotten full-back, and spoke to him about the possibility of returning to the ranks of the Iraqi national team, and representing the Mesopotamia Lions again, as the player expressed his great desire to return to the Iraqi national team, and confirmed that he very much wanted to be present in Basra to play with the Lions.” Al-Rafidain is in the qualifiers, and he confirmed his full readiness to play.”
She noted that: “Casas, after the absence of the player Rebin Solaga from facing Palestine due to deprivation, and his lack of great technical conviction in the two centre-backs, Saad Nateq and Zaid Tahseen, the coach believes that the option of converting Mirjas Doski to a centre-back is the best at the present time, with the possibility of inviting Jaaz.” To make him a left back alongside Ahmed Yahya.”
Jaaz is considered a forgotten player for the Iraqi fans, because he has been absent from the “Lions of Mesopotamia” since March 29, 2022, when he participated in the match between Iraq and Syria in the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar 2022.
The market value of the player Muhannad Gaaz (27 years old) decreased to only 500 thousand euros, after reaching about two million euros in 2022, due to his injury and his absence from the field for a very long period.
