{"id":614304,"date":"2026-09-13T00:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:44:14","slug":"second-casualty-injury-rules-saudi-arabias-foreign-based-player-out-of-gulf-cup-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614304\/","title":{"rendered":"Second casualty.. injury rules Saudi Arabia&#8217;s foreign-based player out of Gulf Cup 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s only overseas-based professional is on the brink of missing the upcoming Arabian Gulf Cup, &#8220;Gulf 27&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 27th edition of the tournament kicks off in Jeddah on 23 September and runs until 6 October.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/arriyadiyah.com\/900130\/%C2%AB%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A-27%C2%BB..-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B9%D9%91%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Arriyadiyah&#8221;<\/a> reckons Lens full-back Saud Abdulhamid will likely miss the Saudi squad because of the injury he recently picked up with the French club.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulhamid sat out Lens&#8217;s last three matches, in the French league and the UEFA Champions League, after suffering a haematoma in his thigh muscle.<\/p>\n<p>You can discuss topics and news in greater depth in the Kooora forums<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the Saudi full-back needs 10 to 14 days to recover, which slashes his chances of featuring in a tournament that also starts in 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Greek head coach Georgios Donis hunting for a new option to fill the right-back slot throughout the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulhamid becomes the latest injury victim ahead of Gulf 27, following captain Salem Al-Dawsari. The Al-Hilal star hasn&#8217;t played a single match since the season began.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia go into the Gulf tournament chasing a first title in 23 years, having last been crowned champions back in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>They sit in Group One alongside Iraq, Oman and Kuwait, with the top two advancing to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s only overseas-based professional is on the brink of missing the upcoming Arabian Gulf Cup, &#8220;Gulf 27&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[278103,85,46,278102,78,105],"class_list":["post-614304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gulf-cup","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-s-abdulhamid","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}