The national football team of Turkmenistan held an open training session on the additional field of the multifunctional Ashgabat Stadium, the official website of the Football Federation of Turkmenistan reports.

Numerous supporters of the Turkmenistan national team and representatives of the local media got the opportunity to observe the work of the national team on Saturday evening.

The preliminary collection of the national team under the leadership of the Croatian specialist Ante Miše, in preparation for the qualifying games of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, takes place on the training fields of the multifunctional stadium Ashgabat and will end today. To the team also arrived the players playing in foreign clubs - Artur Gevorkyan (Persib Bandung) and Arslanmyrat Amanov (PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent). 

After the training camp in Ashgabat, the national team will travel to Dubai (United Arab Emirates), where a friendly match is scheduled to take place against the Uganda national football team (June 9th). Training camp in the UAE will last from 3 to 11 June.

Earlier, on June 5, an official friendly match was scheduled against the national team of Djibouti in Dubai, which was canceled at the request of the African side, the Football Federation of Turkmenistan reported. As Turkmenportal managed to find out, negotiations are currently under way on the possible holding of a friendly match with the national team of Ghana on this day.