The Yemeni national youth team succeeded in winning the West Asian Under-17 Football Championship in its eighth edition, after defeating its Saudi counterpart (the tournament host) on penalty shootouts, 5-4, after they tied in the original time with a goal for each.
Striker Muhammad Al-Barwani opened the scoring for Yemen just two minutes after the start of the second half, taking advantage of the cross of his colleague, Adel Abbas, who managed to snatch the ball from the Saudi defenders before passing it to Al-Barwani, who had placed the goalkeeper's left box.
The Yemeni team maintained this progress until the end of the original time before the substitute Muhammad Al-Issa snatched the equalizing goal for Saudi Arabia in the 92nd minute, taking advantage of a corner ball.
The two teams were forced to resort to penalty kicks, which smiled at the Yemenis after the goalkeeper excelled in countering the third and fifth kicks, giving his colleagues the title of the championship, which delighted thousands of fans of the Yemeni community who gathered early in the Dammam Sports Stadium to support the players, and which also rejoiced the millions of Yemenis who were behind TV screens.
