These 4 Descendant Players Are PSSI's Targets to Appear in the Asian Cup Qualifiers

Four lineage players are expected to feature in the Asian Cup qualifiers. (photo: instagram hasaniabdulgani)

JAKARTA - The All-Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) through one of its Executive Committee members, Hasani Abdulgani, expressed his hope that the Indonesian national team could be strengthened by four lineage players when appearing in the Asian Cup qualifiers which took place in the middle of this year.

This was conveyed by Hasani through uploads on social media. In his latest upload, Hasani said that PSSI was currently in the process of transferring the citizenships of Jordi Amat, Sandy Walsh, Mees Hilgers, and Ragnar Oratmangoen.

"PSSI targets the 4 players to be able to defend the national team in the third round of the 2023 Asian Cup qualification, next June," Hasani wrote.

In the same upload, Hasani also mentioned that documents from Walsh and Amat to take care of the naturalization process were already at the shipping stage to be processed by the legal team.

"Hopefully next week there will be news, complete or still need additional," he explained.

Meanwhile, for Hilgers and Oratmangoen agents, Hasani said that they would send the client's documents in February.

Before Hasani uploaded the question of these four descendants, the Secretary-General of PSSI, Yunus Nusi, had also stated that the four players were already willing to strengthen the Indonesian national team.

On the other hand, the policy of naturalizing Sandy Walsh, Jordi Amat, Mees Hilgers, and Ragnar Oratmangoen itself was a direct request of the coach of the Indonesian national team, Shin Tae-Yong.

The Indonesian national team will indeed undergo the Asian Cup qualifying match in June. However, it is not yet known which country will be the opponent of the Garuda Squad. The reason is, the draw for the new group will be held in February. However, if you refer to the current FIFA rankings, the Indonesian national team could be in pot 4 for the group draw.