Koach Graham Arnold ya sanar da sunayen ɗan wasan gaba na Ipswich Ali Al-Hamadi da tsohon ɗalibin Manchester United Zidane Iqbal a cikin ƙungiyar Iraq ta 'yan wasa 26 don Kofin Duniya 2026.

Dukansu suna cikin manyan sunayen da Iraq ke shirye-shiryen yin farkon bayyanar su a Kofin Duniya bayan shekaru 40, bayan da suka sami cancantar shiga ta hanyar doke Bolivia 2-1 a wasan playoff — wasan da Al-Hamadi ya zura ƙwallo tare da dan wasan gaba mai gogewa Aymen Hussein, yayin da Iqbal ya zauna a benci ba tare da an saka shi ba.

Tafiyar ban mamaki ta Al-Hamadi

Al-Hamadi, mai shekara 24, yana da ɗaya daga cikin labarun da ba kasafai ake samun su ba a duniyar ƙwallon ƙafa. Iyalinsa sun gudu daga Iraq yana jariri kuma suka zauna Liverpool, inda aka sanya hannu da shi a Tranmere kafin ya fara gasar EFL da Wycombe a shekara ta 2022. Bayan shekaru biyu, ya rubuta tarihi a matsayin ɗan wasan Iraq na farko da ya buga Premier League, yana wasa wa Ipswich a shekara ta 2024. Ya ɗauki mafi yawan kakar da ta gabata yana aro a Luton a League One.

Iqbal, mai shekara 23, an haife shi Manchester kuma ya girma a makarantar United, ya sami bayyanar ɗaya a UEFA Champions League kafin ya koma kulob din Holland Utrecht a shekara ta 2023, inda ya buga wasanni 18 a kakar da ta gabata.

An bar Naamo duk da ya fara wasa

Ba kowa da ya yi kyakkyawan aiki a shirye-shiryen ya samu cancantar shiga ba. Mai tsaro Dario Naamo — wanda ya kwanan nan canza ƙungiyarsa ta ƙasa daga Finland zuwa Iraq kuma ya fara wasa da Iraq a nasarar abokantaka 1-0 a kan Andorra ranar Juma'a — an bar shi a wajen zaɓin ƙarshe na Arnold.

Ahmed Qasem, wanda shi ma ya fara wasa da Iraq ranar Juma'a bayan canza daga Sweden, ya samu wurinsa a ƙungiyar. An haɗa dan wasan tsakiyar Nashville SC a cikin ƙungiyar.

Kyaftin da cikakkun bayanai na ƙungiyar

Mai tsaron gida Jalal Hassan yana jagorantar ƙungiyar a matsayin kyaftin, yana kawo gogewa ta wasanni 100 na ƙasa da ƙasa zuwa gasar. Arnold ya kuma riƙe mai tsaron gida Kamil Saadi a wajen ƙungiyar a hukumance a matsayin mataki na kariya idan ɗaya daga cikin masu tsaron gida uku da ya zaɓa ya sami rauni.

An sanya Iraq a Rukuni I na Kofin Duniya 2026 kuma za su fuskanci Norway a Boston, France a Philadelphia, da Senegal a Toronto.

Cikakken jerin ƙungiyar Iraq:

Masu tsaron gida: Fahad Talib (Al-Talaba), Jalal Hassan (Al-Zawraa), Ahmed Basil (Al-Shorta).

Masu tsaro: Hussein Ali (Pogon Szczecin), Manaf Younis, Ahmed Yahya, Mustafa Saadoon (Al-Shorta), Zaid Tahseen (Pakhtakor), Rebin Sulaka (Port), Akam Hashim (Al-Zawraa), Merchas Doski (Viktoria Plzen), Zaid Ismail (Al-Talaba), Frans Putros (Persib).

Yan wasan tsakiya: Amir Al-Ammari (Cracovia), Kevin Yakob (Aarhus GF), Zidane Iqbal (Utrecht), Aimar Sher (Sarpsborg), Ibrahim Bayesh (Al-Dhafra), Ahmed Qasem (Nashville SC), Youssef Amyn (AEK Larnaca), Marko Farji (Venezia).

Yan wasan gaba: Ali Jassim (Al-Najma), Ali Al-Hamadi (Ipswich), Ali Yousef (Al-Talaba), Aymen Hussein (Al-Karma), Mohanad Ali (Dibba).