Newly appointed head coach of Qatar league champions al-Rayyan’s football club, Danish Michael Laudrup (second right) poses with his T-shirt next to the team’s manager Ali Salem Afifa (left), the club’s president Sheikh Saud bin Khaled (second left) and the secretary general Abdullah al-Mutawa during a press conference on October 3, 2016 in the capital Doha. Former Barcelona and Real Madrid star Laudrup replaces Jorge Fossati, who was appointed as coach of Qatar’s national team. AFP photo
BEIJING: Ambitious China and 2022 hosts Qatar will come out fighting as they seek to salvage their bids to reach the 2018 Russia World Cup on Thursday.