Basheer Masoud B. Al-Binali passionately believes that the Saudi national football team will be the champion in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar if his way of selecting and training the players is implemented with the support of the General Presidency of Youth Welfare, the agency responsible for sports, culture and social activities. He said clinching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is a combination of many regimes that must be followed and implemented. “Saudi Arabia has 10 years to hone the very best players who will compose the Saudi national team, and the time to start the process of selection and training them is now,” said Al-Binali. He plans to form his own group that will help him in the selection, training, and management of the selected players. “We want to reach final, but winning the 2022 football cup in Doha is our goal,” he said. “The love for football is in every young Saudi's heart. In every town and city across the Kingdom, there are young boys playing football in dusty, unpaved, open spaces. This is where the selection will begin,” opined Al-Binali, who himself started playing football as midfielder at the age of 10 for the Al-Nahda youth team some 38 years ago. In selecting the players, his plan is to travel to key cities and towns to scout for the best 30 to 40 young players from age 10 to 12 who will be trained. He said teams composed of about 30 to 40 members will be chosen each from Riyadh, Jeddah, Madina, Yanbu, Eastern Province, and other cities in the Kingdom. Al-Binali said the process of selection for the national team will be done after two years; and by that period he and his group shall have identified who among the young players have the potentia. “I will be visiting, identifying, and talking to these young players who have the potential to go to the 2022 Qatar World Cup... to discover their strengths – physically, morally, and spiritually – essential characteristics of true, top winners,” he said. According to Al-Binali, who has been keenly watching and observing world cup competitions for the last 30 years, only about 40 to 45 of the best players will be selected from the various teams of different cities and towns to form the Saudi national football team that will participate in the Qatar world cup 10 years from now. “This selected team of 40 to 45 players will then go through a rigid, disciplined training schedule that will last until 2018 when the members of the team will be in their late teens and early twenties, the ripe age to start the journey toward winning the World Cup,” Al
