Abu Dhabi-Sana
Syria's Olympic football team lost 2-1 to its UAE counterpart at the start of its matches at the Dubai International Olympic Team Championship which took place today at Al-Ahli Youth Stadium in Dubai.
Abdul Rahman Barakat scored in the 33rd minute while UAE's Mohammed Juma and Khalid Ibrahim scored in the 35th and 36th minute.
Our team will meet in its second match with the Iraqi team tomorrow and the Jordanian team next Sunday and conclude its participation with his Bahraini counterpart on the nineteenth of this month.
Eight teams - the UAE, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain - and Syria play in one group.
According to the rules of the tournament, each team will play only four games provided that the eight teams that play in one group are ranked according to the points collected from the four games selected by the organizing committee so that there will be no elimination or final rounds where the three places will be crowned The first according to the highest number of points earned by each team.
