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Al Nasr to get in shape in Slovakia
Al Nasr football team have left for Slovakia for a three-week training camp in preparation for the professional league which kicks off on September 19.
- By Sayed Ali, Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:05 July 29, 2008
- Al Nasr senior football team are off to Slovakia for three weeks to prepare for the upcoming professional season.
- Image Credit: Atiq-Ur-Rehman/Gulf News
Dubai: Al Nasr football team have left for Slovakia for a three-week training camp in preparation for the professional league which kicks off on September 19.
The Al Nasr coach Luka Bonacic was not satisfied with the UAE national team's training camp in Switzerland clashing with the club's training camps in Europe for the new season.
"The clubs will lose their key players in an important period before the start of the new season in September due to them joining the national team to prepare for the world cup qualifiers in September and October," said Bonacic.
"For example one of my important players Mohammad Ebrahim will join the training camp with our team for just three days, after that he will go to the national team training camp and we will not see him again until September 11," the coach added.
Bonacic said that the club is the best place to prepare players for the national team.
Best place to be
"Clubs are always the best place to prepare the national team players because they are all the time with the club, playing matches and train more than they do with the national team," said Bonacic.
The Al Nasr coach does however wish the best of luck to the UAE national team in the world cup qualifiers and hopes they reach the 2010 South Africa finals.
Meanwhile, the Croatian coach claimed that the final list of players who will defend the Al Nasr colours next season will be decided finally after they return from the external training camp.
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