FIFA World Cup: Indian football team to leave for Qatar to prepare for June qualifiers

India's football team head coach Igor Stimac named a large 28-member squad for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday. The Sunil Chhetri-led team will leave for Doha on Wednesday evening.

A 28-member Indian National Team squad will leave for Doha today evening (May 19, 2021) for India’s three forthcoming matches in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers, slated to be played from June 3 onwards. As per the health parameters required to travel to Qatar, all the travelling players and staff carry with them negative test results from the RTPCR tests conducted in the last 48 hours. All of them were also in isolation in the Capital under the bio bubble at the team hotel from May 15 onwards. Stimac stated that although it is not the “ideal situation” ahead of the June Qualifiers, the Blue Tigers will be putting in “intense” sessions before their matches get underway.