Jordan host Iraq in friendly match

AMMAN — The national football team hosts Iraq on Sunday in the first of three friendlies in November as part of their training agenda for the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Head coach Abdullah Abu Zam’eh named the line-up over the weekend with minimal changes on the squad that will play Iraq before leaving to Tashkent to play Uzbekistan on November 10 and host the Lebanese team on the 15th.

Abu Zam’eh underlined the importance of the upcoming three matches which he said would help boost “cohesiveness and help improve the national team’s FIFA ranking” which dropped 18 places to 104th in the latest table.

Jordan is now at it’s lowest ranking of 2016 and dropped out of the Asian top 10 after unimpressive results last month losing to the Moroccan second tier team 2-1 and holding Oman 1-1 after three earlier results in which they held Bahrain 0-0, Lebanon 1-1 and lost 3-2 to Qatar.