2019 AFC Asian Cup

17th version of the AFC Asian Cup

International football contest
The 2019 AFC Asian Cup was the seventeenth edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men ‘s football backing of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation ( AFC ). It was held in the United Arab Emirates from 5 January to 1 February 2019. [ 4 ]

Reading: 2019 AFC Asian Cup

For the first gear time, the asian Cup final tournament was contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format that was used from 2004 to 2015. Under this new format, the finalists would contest a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a smasher stage of 16 teams. The host state qualified for the final examination tournament mechanically, while the remaining 23 places were determined among the other 45 home teams of the AFC through a qualify contest running from 2015 to 2018, partially of which besides served as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification summons for the confederation. The tournament was won for the first gear prison term by Qatar, who defeated Japan 3–1 in the final. This was besides Qatar ‘s first ever top 4 ending in the competition. The champion champions ( Australia ), were eliminated by the hosts ( UAE ) at the quarter-finals, who subsequently lost to the eventual champions in the semi-finals .

Host excerpt [edit ]

The bid routine and timeline for the 2019 AFC asian Cup was approved at the AFC congress on 28 November 2012. [ 5 ] The winning bid was primitively set to be announced at an AFC congress in June, then November 2014. [ 6 ] however, at its sixtieth anniversary celebrations at the end of 2014, AFC gave the go steady of ‘summer 2015 ‘ to when an announcement would be made. [ 7 ] In January 2015, AFC cosmopolitan repository Alex Soosay said that Iran and the United Arab Emirates were the only two remaining bidders for the 2019 asian Cup, and that the eventual hosts would be announced in March 2015. [ 8 ] On 9 March 2015, during an AFC Executive Committee meet in Manama, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates was announced as the host. [ 9 ] This was the second time the nation hosted the tournament, after the 1996 edition .

Teams [edit ]

Qualified for asian Cup

Failed to qualify

Disqualified or withdrew

not an AFC member

reservation [edit ]

The 2019 AFC asian Cup qualification process determined the 24 participating teams for the tournament. In 2014, a marriage proposal to merge the preliminary reservation rounds of the FIFA World Cup with those of the AFC Asian Cup was ratified by the AFC Competitions Committee. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The new reservation structure took stead in three stages, with the inaugural two merging with the 2018 FIFA World Cup reservation [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the first gear round, the lowest rank teams played home-and-away over two legs to reduce the sum number of teams to 40. In the second round, the 40 teams were divided into eight groups of five to play home-and-away round-robin matches, where the eight group winners and the four best group runner-up qualified for the 2019 AFC asian Cup finals. In the third round, the adjacent best 24 teams eliminated from second circle were divided into six groups of four and competed for the remaining slots of the 2019 AFC asian Cup. [ 12 ] The first gear qualifying round of the qualification took target on 12 March 2015, and the final match of the third gear round took set on 27 March 2018. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]

Qualified teams [edit ]

India, Syria, Thailand and Turkmenistan qualified to the tournament after being absent in several asian Cup tournaments spanning from 2004 to 2015. Lebanon and Vietnam both qualified for the first clock time after hosting the tournaments, in 2000 and 2007 respectively. [ 15 ] For Vietnam, this was the first meter they qualified for the AFC asian Cup as a unite state, having participated as South Vietnam in the first two editions ( 1956 and 1960 ), outside of hosting the 2007 version. This was besides the foremost time Yemen qualified for the AFC asian Cup as a incorporate country, due to FIFA and AFC categorizing the participation of South Yemen in the 1976 as a discrete record not related to Yemen, who succeeded North Yemen. In summation to Yemen, the Philippines [ 16 ] and Kyrgyzstan [ 17 ] besides marked this version as their first times to qualify for an asian Cup. Tajikistan, along with its companion CAFA extremity nation Afghanistan, were the only two countries from their confederation who failed to qualify for the tournament. Iran qualified to the asian Cup for the first time as a CAFA member, having qualified as character of the WAFF before. Malaysia and Indonesia were the alone co-hosts of the 2007 edition that did not qualify for the asian Cup, as Malaysia had ended their campaign in disaster with good one steer out of six matches ; while Indonesia was barred from entering the qualification due to tension inside the PSSI which led to FIFA suspension. Kuwait was the merely Arab nation not to qualify for the asian Cup, as they were besides barred from completing the reservation due to FIFA ‘s sanction. India remained as the alone South Asian team to qualify for the tournament. On 13 November 2018, the Asian Football Confederation warned the iranian government to stop interfering in the state ‘s football association, otherwise it would have faced sanctions before the asian Cup. [ 18 ] The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament :

draw [edit ]

The describe of the final tournament was held on 4 May 2018, 19:30 GST, at the Armani Hotel in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The FIFA rankings of April 2018 were used as basis for the seed. The 12 teams that secured their station in the final tournament by the conclusion of the second round of the reservation process were placed in Pots 1 and 2 while the remaining teams which qualified during the third gear round were allocated to the remaining pots. As hosts, the United Arab Emirates were seeded into Pot 1. The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts placed in status A1. [ 21 ] Four celebrated asian players : Ali Daei, Sun Jihai, Sunil Chhetri and Phil Younghusband were chosen to draw the teams. [ 22 ]

Draw consequence [edit ]

Teams were drawn consecutively into Group A to F. Teams from each pot were assigned to the positions of their groups following by number orders of group stage, for case Pot 1 team were assigned to A1, and continued. The draw resulted in the following groups :

Squads [edit ]

Each team had to register a squad with a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 23 players, at least three of whom must be goalkeepers. [ 23 ]

equal officials [edit ]

On 5 December 2018, the AFC announced the list of 30 referees, 30 assistant referees, two stand-by referees and two stand-by adjunct referees, including one reviewer and two adjunct referees from CONCACAF for the tournament. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Video adjunct referees ( VAR ) would be used from the quarter-finals onwards. [ 26 ] In each pit, the referee and his assistants were accompanied by two extra assistant referees stationed future to each team ‘s goalpost .

Referees

Assistant referees

Video assistant referees

Stand-by referees

Stand-by assistant referees

Venues [edit ]

After being awarded the bid, initially the UAE chose six stadiums to host the tournament. The six stadiums were Zayed Sports City Stadium and Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium and Khalifa bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, and Dubai ‘s Al Ahli Stadium and DSC Stadium. Later, two stadiums in Dubai were dropped due to fiscal problems and were replaced by Al Maktoum Stadium and Rashid Stadium, which were besides located in Dubai. [ 27 ] After the 2015 asian Cup, the AFC agreed to increase the number of teams from 16 to 24, following the UEFA Euro 2016. Hence, more stadiums were about to be chosen and rebuilt, in which Sharjah and Abu Dhabi won the rights to have more stadiums for the tournament. Sharjah Stadium and Al Nahyan Stadium were chosen consequence, finalized the number of stadium to eight. The eight venues used are Zayed Sports City Stadium, Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, and Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi, Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium and Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, Al Maktoum Stadium and Rashid Stadium in Dubai, and Sharjah Stadium in Sharjah. [ 28 ]

format [edit ]

The tournament was expanded to 24 teams from the previous format of 16 teams, which had been used since 2004. [ 30 ] only the hosts will receive an automatic qualification position, while the other 23 teams will qualify through a qualification tournament. At the finals, the 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams each. The teams in each group play a single circle robin. After the group stage, the top two teams and the four best one-third teams will advance to the smasher phase, beginning with the round of golf of 16. For the beginning time since a hard phase was added to the contest in 1972, there will be no third place play-off. [ 23 ]

schedule [edit ]

The AFC announced the official peer schedule on 7 May 2018. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Zayed Sports City Stadium, one of three stadiums in Abu Dhabi, staged both the opening match and the concluding. At least five matches were allocated to each venue, with every ground hosting at least one match in the knockout stage. The semi-finals were played on different days in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. No city hosted two matches on the same day – except in the final rung of group stage matches when coincident kick-off is required .

Group stage [edit ]

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 16. All times are local, GST ( UTC+4 ). [ 33 ]

Tiebreakers [edit ]

Teams were ranked according to points ( 3 points for a gain, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss ), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings : [ 23 ]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
Drawing of lots.

Group A [edit ]

Thailand five India Group A saw the unfold match of the tournament which was a one-all draw between United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, with Ahmed Khalil getting the counterweight in the 88th hour after going one goal down only ten-spot minutes anterior. [ 34 ] UAE and Thailand qualified as the top two nations in the group after a 1–1 draw at the Hazza bank identification number Zayed Stadium, and Bahrain qualified in third gear place after a 1–0 succeed over India. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] India finished stopping point in the group after they recorded their first base win in the asian Cup for 55 years over Thailand in their opening match, before losing their remaining two games. [ 37 ]

Pos

Team

Pld

Pts

Qualification

United Arab Emirates ( H )

Advance to knockout stage

Thailand
3

−2

4[a]

Bahrain
3

4[a]

India
3

reference : AFC

(H)

Host
Notes :

a b neck and neck points : Thailand 3, Bahrain 0 .

Group B [edit ]

Syria vanadium Palestine Group B saw Jordan qualify circus tent of the group after defeating the defending champions in the opening match from an Anas Bani Yaseen heading. [ 38 ] This was followed up by a 2–0 acquire over Syria which saw syrian coach Bernd Stange sacked after the match and being replaced by Fajr Ibrahim. [ 39 ] Joining them in the round of 16 was Australia, who after losing to Jordan in their orifice pit, got two wins over Palestine [ 40 ] and Syria with that match only being won by a goal from Tom Rogic in injury time. [ 41 ]

Pos

Team

Pld

Pts

Qualification

Jordan
3

Advance to knockout stage

Australia
3

Palestine
3

−3

Syria
3

−3

1
source : AFC

Group C [edit ]

Kyrgyzstan v Philippines Group C saw South Korea and China qualify through as the clear two seeds with the plot between the two matches seeing South Korea on top of the group after a 2–0 win. [ 42 ] This entail that South Korea finished without conceding a finish after previously getting two 1–0 wins over the Philippines and Kyrgyzstan. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] In the conflict for third plaza, it was between two newcomers to the contest, with Kyrgyzstan getting their first gain in an asian competition with a hat-trick from Vitalij Lux, securing a 3–1 gain for the cardinal Asian team despite a recently consolation goal from Stephan Schröck, which was the beginning Philippine finish in the tournament. [ 45 ]

Pos

Team

Pld

Pts

Qualification

South Korea
3

Advance to knockout stage

China PR
3

Kyrgyzstan
3

Philippines
3

−6

source : AFC

Group D [edit ]

Iran five Iraq Group D saw Iran and Iraq both qualify through to the round off of 16 as the top two teams after both finished the group with seven points following their match complete in a 0–0 hook at the Al Maktoum Stadium. [ 46 ] Iran finished exceed of the group on finish remainder, largely in part to their 5–0 kill of debutantes Yemen in their first gear game, which included a double from Mehdi Taremi. [ 47 ] A 2–0 winnings over Vietnam saw the team go through with three clean sheets from three. [ 48 ] Iraq had a baffling game in their undoer against Vietnam, with only a former 90th-minute goal from Ali Adnan securing them three points. [ 49 ] This would late be followed with a 3–0 gain over Yemen to qualify with Iran, with Vietnam qualifying in one-third locate after a 2–0 victory over Yemen. [ 50 ]

Pos

Team

Pld

Pts

Qualification

Iran
3

Advance to knockout stage

Iraq
3

Vietnam
3

−1

Yemen
3

−10

source : AFC

Group E [edit ]

Qatar five Lebanon Group E witnessed Qatar and Saudi Arabia qualify to the round of 16. In the decisive match for inaugural place, Qatar beat Saudi Arabia 2–0, thanks to a brace by Almoez Ali. [ 51 ] Qatar began their campaign with a comfortable, albeit controversial, 2–0 acquire over Lebanon, [ 52 ] before beating North Korea 6–0, sealing their place in the hard stage. [ 53 ] Ali was decisive in both games, scoring a finish against Lebanon, [ 52 ] and four goals against North Korea. [ 53 ] meanwhile, Saudi Arabia opened their report with a 4–0 gain over North Korea, [ 54 ] before booking a identify to the future round by beating Lebanon 2–0. [ 55 ] In their last repair, Lebanon beat North Korea 4–1 with a Hilal El-Helwe couple ; the acquire was Lebanon ‘s first in the competition. [ 56 ] however, Lebanon missed out on the next polish on bazaar act points. [ 56 ]

Pos

Team

Pld

Pts

Qualification

Qatar
3

+10

Advance to knockout stage

Saudi Arabia
3

Lebanon
3

−1

North Korea
3

−13

0
source : AFC

Group F [edit ]

Japan volt Turkmenistan

Ranking of third-placed teams [edit ]

Pos

Grp

Team

Pld

Pts

Qualification

A
Bahrain
3

Advance to knockout stage

C
Kyrgyzstan
3

3[a]

F
Oman
3

3[a]

D
Vietnam
3

−1

3[b]

E
Lebanon
3

−1

3[b]

B
Palestine
3

−3

2

Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Disciplinary points; 5) Drawing of lots.[23]
Notes: beginning : AFCRules for classification : 1 ) Points ; 2 ) Goal difference ; 3 ) Goals scored ; 4 ) Disciplinary points ; 5 ) tie of lots.Notes :

a b disciplinary points : Kyrgyzstan −5, Oman −6 .
a b corrective points : Vietnam −5, Lebanon −7 .

Knockout phase [edit ]

Player lineup anterior to the Qatar v UAE beginning In the smasher stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. [ 23 ] A one-fourth substitution could be made during extra prison term. [ 63 ]

bracket [edit ]

Round of 16 [edit ]

concluding [edit ]

Statistics [edit ]

Goalscorers [edit ]

There were 130 goals scored in 51 matches, for an average of 2.55 goals per match. 9 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

discipline [edit ]

A actor was automatically suspended for the adjacent match for the watch offences : [ 23 ]

Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
Receiving two yellow cards in two matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions are not carried forward to any other future international matches)

The follow suspensions were served during the tournament :

Awards [edit ]

Team of the tournament

According to the AFC organization committee, eight players from the winning Qatari team and five players from the runner-up japanese team were selected in the team of the tournament. Six players from teams which progressed to the semi-finals ( Iran and the United Arab Emirates ) were besides selected. In accession, four players from teams which progressed to the quarter-finals were selected. Nguyễn Quang Hải became the second player from Southeast Asia to be included on the team of the tournament after Soh Chin Ann in 1980. [ 65 ]

selling [edit ]

Logo and slogan [edit ]

The official logo of the 2019 AFC asian Cup was unveiled on 23 January 2017 in Abu Dhabi during the drawing ceremony for the third round of the 2019 AFC asian Cup qualification. [ 66 ] The colors used in the logo were derived from the ease up of the UAE. The seven hexagons formed by color ribbons represents the seven emirates of the host country. The interlacing hexagon design of the logo was inspired from Islamic artwork, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as the old Emirati custom of using palm leaves, locally known as saf, in weaving. The out set along with the geometric plan within it symbolizes the sport of football. [ 67 ] The motto “ Bringing Asia Together ” ( Arabic : جمع آسيا معاً‎ ) was unveiled on 5 January 2018, a class before the tournament ‘s kick-off .

Match ball [edit ]

The official match ball was provided by Molten Corporation. [ 68 ] According from the AFC, the match ball would be known as Molten Acentec. [ 69 ]

Mascots [edit ]

During the final examination drawing card on 4 May 2018, two mascots, Mansour and Jarrah, were unveiled. Mansour is a distinctive Arab football kid, while Jarrah is an arab falcon with lightning speed. [ 70 ]
The newfangled trophy design

trophy [edit ]

besides on the drawing day on 4 May 2018, an all new trophy made by Thomas Lyte was unveiled. It is 78 centimeters grandiloquent, 42 centimeters wide, and weighs 15 kilograms of silver. [ 71 ] The trophy is modeled over lotus flower, a symbolically significant aquatic asian plant. Five petals of the lotus symbolized the five sub-confederations under the AFC. [ 72 ] The achiever names are engraved around the trophy establish, which is dissociable from the trophy ‘s main body .

Prize money [edit ]

entire prize money pool for the tournament was US $ 14,800,000. [ 73 ] The champions would receive US $ 5 million, the runner-up will receive US $ 3 million, and the lose semi-finalists would receive US $ 1 million. All 24 participating teams would besides receive US $ 200,000. [ 74 ]

team busbar slogans [edit ]

Iran home team bus The tournament organizers held a competition where fans got to choose and vote on slogans to be used on the team buses of the 24 participating national teams. [ 75 ]

Broadcasting [edit ]

The tournament was broadcast live by around 80 television receiver channels covering the unharmed universe. 800 million people were expected to watch matches, [ 76 ] with the tournament reaching a potential television receiver consultation of more than 2.5 billion people. [ 77 ] ESPN5 made a “ competitive invite ” to broadcast the tournament on free-to-air television receiver in the Philippines, but it was not accepted by the AFC. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] In the Middle East, where Qatar-based BeIN Sports has rights to broadcast the asian Cup in the region, BeoutQ ( allegedly backed by Saudi Arabia ) besides illegally broadcast the tournament as part of a proxy conflict in a diplomatic crisis between Qatar and diverse Arab states. The AFC has noted BeoutQ ‘s broadcast and condemned it for “ persistent and illegal shield ”. [ 80 ] For the inaugural time since the extrusion of Israel from the Asian Football Confederation, the UAE allowed Israeli TV channel sport 5 to directly broadcast the tournament. This was seen as a sign of warming relations between Israel and the UAE. Sport 5 formally broadcast the opening meet between the UAE and Bahrain, and had remained active until the end of the tournament. [ 81 ] A year late in the pursue tournament, Israel and the United Arab Emirates officially normalised relations. At the end of the tournament, AFC announced that the 2019 asian Cup was the most engage in history across all social platforms reaching 169.4 million impressions, an increase by more than fifteen times from the 11 million reach from 2015 AFC asian Cup. [ 82 ] Broadcast rights are sold by Lagardère Sports on behalf of the AFC. [ 80 ]

Controversies [edit ]

Australia vs. Palestine [edit ]

many ticket-holding fans were locked out of the Group B match between Palestine and Australia, with management closing a number of Rashid Stadium gates before the start of the match “ in the interests of fan base hit ”. Rashid Stadium was one of the smallest stadiums in the tournament with only 12,000 seats and many non-ticket holding fans attempted to watch the pit without buying tickets. The organizing committee issued a affirmation for the reasons of blockage stating “ Ahead of kick-off a big crowd of fans with and without tickets had gathered over a short period of time outside the stadium, which resulted in the need to secure the area. ” They then issued an apology to supporters who were “ inconvenienced or left defeated ” and issued an fact-finding probe to insure it to be an isolate incident. [ 83 ]

Qatar travel complications [edit ]

As a solution of Qatar diplomatic crisis between Qatar and number of its neighbours since 5 June 2017, including the United Arab Emirates as the horde country, the UAE suspended all directly flights between the two countries and initially banned Qatari citizens from entering their country, [ 84 ] although the Emirati government belated announced that it would permit Qatari citizens temp entry into the state pending approval from Emirati authorities. [ 85 ] According to a report, Saoud al-Mohannadi, a Qatari national who is the AFC vice-president and president of the organizing committee for the asian Cup, was unable to enter the UAE two days prior to the tournament ‘s begin because Emirati authorities had not so far cleared him. [ 86 ] The film director of the 2019 AFC Organizing Committee denied reports that Al Mohannadi was refused entrance and declared that Al Mohannadi has arrived on Friday morning and was preparing for his meetings. The film director stated that there was no testify that shows he was unable to enter and stated that this news has “ political purposes ”. He stated “ We try to keep sports aside from politics. ” [ 87 ] The diplomatic crisis prevented many fans from attending Qatar matches in the UAE. This had affected attendance figures in Qatar matches, as little more than 450 people spectated the Group E clash between North Korea and Qatar on 13 January. [ 88 ] The UAE government had confirmed previously that Qatari citizens may enter UAE with anterior license obtained directly through a hotline from UAE authorities. [ 85 ] According to Qatar ‘s Sports Press Committee, five Qatar-based media representatives were deny entry into the UAE despite having entrance visa and pick up assurances that they would be allowed to attend and report on the tournament by the AFC. [ 89 ] The AFC Media Committee dismissed the Qatari reports and stated that some of the Qatar-based journalists confused visit visa with work visa and advised all journalists to contact them if they encounter any issues with the introduction visa type. [ 90 ] According to Al Jazeera, the final match, which was won by Qatar, was played “ about entirely without ” Qatari support from the stands, due to the travel ban. [ 91 ] however, according to Qatar-based The Peninsula bombastic number of Omani fans supported the Qatari team in the stadium, stating “ The large number of fans who supported the Qatari team were wearing the logo of Al Annabi [ The Maroons ] with the background of the names of diverse players. apart from their attendance, they carried flags in the stadium and continued to cheer for Al Annabi [ The Maroons ] players and sing songs throughout the game. ” [ 92 ]
During the semi-final match between Qatar and hosts United Arab Emirates, some UAE supporters threw bottles and footwear into the match after Qatari players scored their second gear finish ; the latter is considered to be highly unsavory in the Middle East. One of the Qatari players, Salem Al Hajri, was struck on the head with a brake shoe after Qatar scored its third goal. This lead was preceded by booing the Qatari home hymn. The two countries had had a hostile kinship and had cut diplomatic ties ascribable to the ongoing diplomatic crisis. [ 93 ] Qatar won 4–0 despite the events, reaching their first asian Cup final. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Afterwards, the AFC declared that it would conduct an investigation into the proceedings. [ 95 ] [ 97 ]

Qatar player eligibility [edit ]

On 30 January 2019, soon after the hosts lost to Qatar in the semi-finals, the United Arab Emirates Football Association lodged a formal entreaty to the AFC over the eligibility of Sudanese-born Almoez Ali and Iraqi-born Bassam Al-Rawi, claiming that they did not qualify to play for Qatar on residency grounds per Article 7 of the Regulations Governing the application of the FIFA statutes, which states a player is eligible to play for a representative team if he has “ lived continuously for at least five years after reaching the age of 18 on the district of the relevant association ”. [ 98 ] It was alleged that Ali and Al-Rawi had not lived endlessly in Qatar for at least five years over the old age of 18, although the players claimed that their mothers were born in Qatar. [ 99 ] only hours anterior to the start of the final on 1 February 2019, the AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee announced that it had dismissed the protest lodged by the UAEFA. [ 100 ] [ 101 ]
A British-Sudanese football fan claimed he was beaten and arrested for wearing a Qatar football shirt to a couple in which Qatar was playing and then, after reporting to the police, arrested and accused of wasting patrol prison term and making false statements of being assaulted. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] [ 104 ] [ 105 ] In an consultation with Sky News, he claimed he was beaten, starved, and deprived of sleep by the police for wearing Qatar shirt. [ 106 ] The fan claims were denied by UAE authorities who stated the fan was arrested for wasting patrol time and making false attack claims to the police .

“The police took him to hospital where a doctor who examined him concluded that his injuries were inconsistent with his account of events and appeared to be self-inflicted,”

– The government said.[107]

The patrol claimed that the sports fan had admitted to making delusive statements and his umbrage will be processed through the courts. An official in UAE embassy in London stated “ He was flatly not arrested for wearing a Qatar football shirt. This is alternatively an exemplify of a person seeking media attention and wasting police prison term. ” [ 104 ] [ 105 ] [ 108 ] [ 109 ]

References [edit ]

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