Gerardo Paiz, president of the Executive Committee of the National Soccer Federation (Fedefut), confirmed that the Guatemalan national team will play a friendly match against Qatar.
“They (the promoters) pay us the tickets and everything,” Paiz explained, about the match that will be played next Sunday, October 23 at La Rosaledaheadquarters of Málaga CF, in Spain.
For qatarthe duel against Luis Fernando Tena’s Bicolor will serve as preparation for the World Cup that will be played from November 20 to December 18.
The host team of the World Cup is located in group A, along with Ecuador, Senegal and the Netherlands.
The game, which will not be played on a FIFA date, will be the last of 2022 for the Guatemalan National Team, which will compete again in March 2023 in the Concacaf Nations League B.
With the confirmation of this friendly, Guatemala would once again be facing a World Cup hostafter the meeting he starred in on May 31 2010 against South Africa.
in that crash, South Africa thrashed the Sele 5-0although later that game became a match-fixing scandal of the team that hosted the World Cup that year.
Nigerien Ibrahim Chaibou, who was the referee in that match, was accused of receiving up to US$100,000 and was suspended for life.
Guatemala will arrive at the match against Qatar after the loss against Honduras in Houston; before he also fell with a win against the Colombian team.
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