The Results Of The 2024 U-23 Asian Cup Final Draw Are Quite Beneficial For Indonesia, Indra Sjafri Immediately Prays At The Prophet's Mosque

JAKARTA The U-23 Indonesian national team coach, Indra Sjafri, immediately visited the Prophet's Mosque after the 2024 U-23 Asian Cup qualifying draw, Thursday, May 25. He offered a prayer for his team to qualify for the final round.

Based on the draw results, the Garuda Nusantara squad was included in Group K with Turkmenistan and Taiwan.

"Alhamdulillah, we just finished participating in the U-23 Asian Cup Qualification drawing, where we host group K. We are in the same group as Turkmenistan and Taiwan," said Indra on the PSSI official website.

Indra Sjafri, who is currently carrying out Umrah in Saudi Arabia, said that after the draw he immediately prayed to the Prophet's Mosque asking for Indonesia's path to be cleared in the group phase.

"After finishing the draw, from the hotel I went straight to the Prophet's Mosque to pray asking Indonesia to qualify for the final round in Qatar 2024 and of course will excel at the Asian level later," he said.

"In the near future I will discuss with all assistant coaches to find out the strength of the opposing team," added the coach who successfully brought Indonesia to win at the 2023 SEA Games.

The 2024 U-23 Asian Cup qualification will take place on 4-12 September. For Group K, Indonesia will act as the host.

The qualifying round for the 2024 U-23 Asian Cup will be followed by 43 teams. They will compete for 16 tickets to the final round which will take place in Qatar on 15 April-3 May 2024.

Qatar as the host has certainly passed even though it will also appear in the qualifying round. A total of 11 group winners will qualify automatically, while the other four teams will be contested through the second best.

Until now, Indonesia has never played in the U-23 Asian Cup finals. However, for this edition, Indonesia has a great opportunity after seeing the draw results.