Oman Football: Coach Lopez Caro begins training Oman national team

Columnist Sunday 07/February/2016 19:50 PM
By: Times News Service
Oman Football: Coach Lopez Caro begins training Oman national team

Oman national football team’s newly appointed Spanish coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro started his first training camp with the team at the Seeb Sports Stadium on Saturday. The former Real Madrid and Saudi Arabia coach, on a one-year contract with the Oman Football Association (OFA), will be preparing the Sultanate’s squad for their remaining two World Cup/Asian Cup joint qualifiers, one of the three targets set for the Spaniard by the OFA, the other two being the next round of the World Cup qualifiers and the Gulf Cup championship to be organised later this year. In the Group D qualifiers of the 2018 World Cup/2019 Asian Cup, Oman have 11 points against group toppers Iran’s 14. Oman need to win both their remaining matches to clinch the direct berth into the next round of the World Cup qualifiers — first against Guam at home at March 24 and an away outing against Iran on March 29. Photos - ISMAIL AL FARSI/Times of Oman