This year's World Cup in Qatar is going to be unique.
The global event has been moved from the summer to the cooler months of November and December due to the heat in the region.
The national team is going to stay in a training camp for six months to prepare.
Felixnchez's side will play a series of friendly matches before their opening Group A fixture against Ecuador.
The first part of the camp took place in Spain before moving on to Austria, where they have a four-team tournament lined up against Morocco and other teams.
The idea is not completely crazy but it is a strange thing to do.
They should do it for a shorter period of time. It's difficult to take the players out of games.
It's difficult to stay together for a long time. The players could decide to cut the camp short if they became mentally burned out.
South Korea hosted the World Cup in 1998 and spent five months in camp before falling to Germany in the semifinals.
The plan is to work as a group on tactics and generate team spirit in order to host the tournament.
The opening seven games of the domestic QSL will be missing key players such as forward Almoez Ali of Al-Duhail and winger Akram Afif of Al-Sadd.
The source said that not playing competitively is the biggest downside. There is no winner or loser in a friendly. They can play more solidly with a better identity because they are not so strong as a group.
They can bring their families to stay over and have free time with them, or allow them to come back to the country for a few days.
This is not the mentality of the country and it needs to be fixed.
In their World Cup group, they will face the Netherlands, as well as the other two teams.
There were complaints from supporters of human rights that led to the cancellation of the friendly match between the two sides.
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