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Dubai: Al Wasl's footballers left for a three weeks training camp in Switzerland yesterday to prepare for the first professional league season, which kicks off on September 19.
The club will take part in a friendly tournament in Geneva, from August 5 to 9, with three GCC clubs participating.
The Dubai team will face Al Ahli from Saudi Arabia, Qatar-based Al Sadd and the Kuwait club.
The team have been training at the club's stadium for the last ten days under new coach Miroslav Beranek, of the Czech Republic.
All the players took part in the training sessions and left yesterday for Switzerland.
"I am satisfied with the players enthusiasm and high spirit which they showed in the training sessions," said Beranek.
"I am focusing now on the players capabilities to know their standard and how they perform before I decide the formation and the tactics."
Good season ahead
The Al Wasl coach said he was optimistic about the team's performance in the new season.
"The friendly tournament in Geneva will help me to know better the players standard as this will be the first time to watch them in action," said Beranek.
The coach said Al Wasl would be something different in the coming season.
He said the whole club would be ready to cooperate and provide the team with as much help as possible to succeed in the coming season.
Al Wasl finished last season in seventh place in the league table, despite winning a rare double in the season 2006-2007 after clinching the President's cup and league title.
The club will miss the services of goalkeeper Majid Naser and wingback Tariq Hasan until September 11 as the two players will be with the national team preparing for the world cup qualifiers.
The following players are taking part in the training squad: Salah Hussain, Rashid Ali, Khalaf Esmail, Abdullah Eisa, Sami Rabea, Waheed Esmail, Yasir Salim, Saud Suhail, Hasan Ali, Radwan Saleh, Humaid Lahij, Faisal Salim, Tariq Darwish, Ali Mahmoud, Naser Mubarak, Eisa Ali, Mohammad Jamal, Badr Abdullah, Faisal Ahmad, Habib Fardan, Khalid Darwish, Yousuf Hasan, Maher Jasim, Rashid Eisa, Suhail Khalid, Walid Murad, Mehboub Juma, Eman Mob'ali, Alexander Olivera and Rogerio Merinda Silva.
Al Wasl coach Miroslav Beranek has promised a better performance than last year's finish of seventh in the league.
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