LAHORE, June 11: Pakistan’s 23-member U-22 football squad, accompanied by four officials, left here for Bahrain on Monday to take part in a three-match friendly series against Bahrain as part of final preparations for the AFC Asian Championship 2013 qualifiers group ‘B’ round.

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Saquib Hanif, Muzammil Hussain, Tanvir Mumtaz.

Defenders: Naveed Ahmed, Ahsanullah, Manzoor Ahmed, Mohsin Ali, Noor Mohammad, Aamir Siddiqui, Rashid Ali.

Midfielders: Kaleemullah (captain), Faisal Iqbal (vice-captain), Saddam Hussain, Mahmood Khan, Mohammad Adil, Sher Mohammad, Bilawal-ur-Rehman, Junaid Qadir, Abdul Rehman, Imran Ali Khan.

Forwards: Mohammad, Zakir Lashari, Riaz Ahmed.

Officials: Zavisha Milosavlijevich (head coach/manager); Syed Nasir Ismail (assistant coach); Mohammad Aslam Khan (goalkeeping coach); Kamran Mehdi (physio/assistant manager).—Sports Reporter

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