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Yemen vs Saudi Arabia Football Match - Gulf Cup Group B


Yemen and Saudi Arabia will face at Gulf Cup in Bahrain. Match live Yemen vs. Saudi Arabia 16:15 Wednesday, 9th January 2013.

Actually there’s nothing to talk about this match. Saudi Arabia National Football Team is the certain favourite team of this match. Yemen National Football Team is the weakest team of entire tournament.


The Gulf Cup of Nations or Arabian Gulf Cup (Arabic: كأس الخليج العربي‎), also known as Khaleeji (Arabic: خليجي‎), followed by the edition of the games (e.g. Khaleeji 17, Khaleeji 18, Khaleeji 19, etc), is a football (soccer) tournament currently held every two years rotating the host city every edition. Previously the competition was usually held by countries members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on a biannual basis, but the history of the competition has also seen it held every 3, or even 4 years, due to political, or organizational problems.

The Gulf Cup of Nations was founded at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico by Persian Gulf nations, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The First Gulf Cup tournament took place in Bahrain in 1970, and was won by the Kuwaiti team.

For the first time, the 17th edition of the tournament, held in Doha, Qatar in 2004, featured sports such as handball, basketball, and volleyball. The 2007 and 2009 tournaments included these sports as well.

The 2009 Gulf Cup, the 19th edition, took place in Muscat, Oman, from 4 January to 17 January 2009 and was won by Oman, for the first time in their history by beating regional leaders, Saudi Arabia in a penalty shootout.

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