Bahrain referee Shuklala will play the Sino-Vietnamese battle in the round of 12, he is an "old acquaintance" of Chinese football

According to the plan, the new Chinese men's football team led by new coach Li Xiaopeng will sound the rallying call in Shanghai on January 11 to prepare for the 7th round of the round of 12 away matches against Japan and the 8th round of away to Vietnam. Since the day of the Sino-Vietnamese match coincided with the first day of the first lunar month, the match attracted the attention of Chinese fans. It is understood that the AFC has confirmed the appointment of an international-level referee from Bahrain, who is also a "familiar face" Shukrara Nawaf to enforce the game.

Shuklara, 45, has so far participated in two consecutive World Cup enforcement efforts in 2014 and 2018 and is one of the most popular candidates for law enforcement referees recommended by the AFC for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

According to the data, Shuklara has previously enforced 2 round of 40 matches and 4 round of 12 matches as the referee, and like Manin of China and Jassim of Qatar, Shuklara is also one of the referees who have the most times to enforce the top 12 matches.

Chinese fans and the Chinese team are very familiar with the referee from Bahrain, and he was the one who enforced the match between the national football team and japan at the "home" of Doha on September 7 last year. In addition, he has also played the 3-game round of 12 matches between South Korea and Iraq on September 2 of the past year, Australia's 3-1 home win over Oman on October 7, and Iraq's 1-1 home draw with Syria on November 11.

According to the arrangement, Shuklara will enforce the Saudi team's home match against Oman on January 27 in Saudi Jeddah, saudi Arabia, and then travel from Saudi Arabia to Hanoi, Vietnam, to enforce the match between Vietnam and China on February 1.

Shukla is also well known to Chinese fans because he has repeatedly refereed the matches of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League. For example, when Guangzhou (Evergrande) won the AFC Champions League for the first time in the 2013 season, he was the referee in the first leg of the final match between its home and Seoul FC.

In 2018 and 2019, Shuklara was also invited by the Chinese Football Association to enforce a number of Chinese Super League matches. Counting the matches between Vietnam and China in this round of 12, Shuklala will have a total of three world preliminary matches against China. As early as November 17, 2015, when the National Football Team played the Asian Top 40 of the World Preliminary Tournament in Russia against Hong Kong, China, he served as the referee. As far as the actual situation of law enforcement is concerned, Shuklala has not shown any unfriendly or obviously unfair penalties against Chinese teams in the past law enforcement process.

The two assistant referees of this match are also from Bahrain, they are Salman Jafar Mohammed and Abdullah Muhsin. The 4th officer is Qasim Sare from Iraq. The assistant referee for video will be Taki from Singapore, who is also an old acquaintance of Chinese football, and he is the referee of the 3-1 victory over Syria in the final match of the Chinese team's Round of 40.

Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Zhao