1 Contents P.4 IVAN ROBBA - WELCOME P.5 GIBRALTAR SQUAD P.6 JULIO RIBAS - CONFERENCE P.7 NORWAY SQUAD P.9 GIBRALTAR PLAYER PROFILE - INTRODUCING AYMEN P.10 INTERVIEW - JAYCE OLIVERO P.11 MONTENEGRO SQUAD P.12 LAST TIME OUT P.12 GIBRALTAR 1-0 SAN MARINO P.13 LIECHTENSTEIN 0-1 GIBRALTAR P.14 SAN MARINO 0-0 GIBRALTAR P.15 GIBRALTAR SEAL PROMOTION TO LEAGUE C OF THE UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE P.16 UP CLOSE WITH JACK AND JAYCE P.18 INTERVIEW - TJAY DE BARR P.20 NETHERLANDS SQUAD P.21 GIBRALTAR PLAYER PROFILE - INTRODUCING BADR P.22 FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022 - QUALIFIERS 3 IVAN ROBBAWelcome DEAR SUPPORTERS, Good evening ahead of the first ever World Cup Qualifying match to be played in Gibraltar, and a huge week which will see our National Team face three tough fixtures. Unfortunately, for the visit of Norway, we are still unable to welcome you to the Victoria Stadium to enjoy the match, however I am sure you will be right behind our team of heroes wherever you are watching. Norway is a very strong international team who are quickly forging a new reputation built around young international superstars such as Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard. Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar and Both of whom need no introduction and will Public Health Gibraltar have deemed the no doubt be keen to get their qualification Netherlands home match a test event, in campaign off to a flying start at the Victoria which a limited number of supporters can Stadium. attend, albeit under strict circumstances. We sincerely hope that this will be the start of Then, Julio Ribas takes Gibraltar to being able to get as many of you back into Montenegro, to a tight and difficult Stadion the stadium as possible for September time, pod Goricom, in the capital of Podgorica. but we have to make sure that all the hard Montenegro may not have any superstar work and efforts of our Government and names in their team, yet in Stevan Jovetic of Public Heath Gibraltar can allow us to do this AS Monaco they have a top centre forward in safely. their ranks. I would like to take this opportunity to thank And then, in just under a week, we hope all of Gibraltar’s frontline Key Workers, from that things will make a significant change the GHA to the ERS and everyone else who for the better, as we host the Netherlands. has performed such a crucial role in steering Yet another top ranked National Team full of Gibraltar through these extremely difficult world class players from all pf Europe’s top times. We cannot thank you enough. leagues. Wherever you are watching the World Cup Qualifiers from I hope you and your families are keeping safe and well. IVAN ROBBA GIBRALTAR FA GENERAL SECRETARY 4 GIBRALTAR LOUIE ANNESLEY DAYLE COLEING DYLAN PEACOCK MOHAMED BADR JAMIE COOMBES ALAIN PONS SCOTT BALLANTINE TJAY DE BARR BRAD POWER BRADLEY BANDA AYOUB EL HMIDI JAMIE ROBBA ERIN BARNETT KYLE GOLDWIN KIAN RONAN DYLAN BORGE ANDREW HERNANDEZ KEVAGN RONCO JAMIE BOSIO ANTHONY HERNANDEZ REECE STYCHE ETHAN BRITTO ETHAN JOLLEY ETHAN SANTOS JARED BUHAGIAR KELVIN MORGAN JACK SERGEANT KYLE CASCIARO AYMEN MOUELHI GRAEME TORRILLA LEE CASCIARO ANTONY MOULDS JULIAN VALARINO KENNETH CHIPOLINA JAYCE OLIVERO JARON VINET ROY CHIPOLINA JAYDAN PARODY LIAM WALKER SCOTT WISEMAN 5 JULIO RIBAS The morale is high, we’ve planned everythingConference I’ve been aware of our younger players in the and we’re very concentrated. It is not the squad since they were in the youth system first time that we’ve had three matches in up until now and this won’t be their only quick succession, the last time out we played opportunity to be part of the squad. We will against Bulgaria, San Marino and then against continue the youth progression in this squad Lichtenstein. We have to be smart about how like we did with the likes of Louie Annesley, we manage the time and the squad. Tjay De Barr, Ethan Britto and Graeme Torrilla. We’ve picked a bigger squad because of the We have a great generation of players schedule. To play three games in six days coming through and they have all the we have to be ready and prepared for every confidence in the world that is required to scenario like we did in the past with the UEFA play at the highest level and to demonstrate Nations League. the faith we have in them. For example, when we played Lichtenstein The goal for this campaign is to keep away and we won 1-0, we had roughly 30 growing, to keep improving and developing. players in the squad which is what we have Growing as a group, as a team and to keep now, apart from this we have about 6 players developing the youngsters so that in the who have had all their tests and are not with future they continue playing at the high us at the moment that are ready to be called level they are producing now. That is our upon should the need arise after tomorrow or challenge, our daily challenge and the between any of the games. challenge that we have to rise to in every game that we will play. 6 NORWAY Capital: Oslo Population: 5.4 million Area: 385,207km2 Head Coach: Stale Solbakken Team Captain: Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal FC) Norway will be looking to qualify from Group G and make it to their first FIFA World Cup since France 98. They have every right to feel that Qatar 2022 is achievable – their squad boasts some of the best young talents in the European game including, of course, Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland who is already a world class goalscorer in the Bundesliga and the UEFA Champions League and has already bagged 6 goals in just 7 appearances for the national team. The head coach is Stale Solbakken, who has previously coached in Denmark, in Germany (at 1.FC Koln) and in England (at Wolverhampton Wanderers). The team captain will be well known to both Real Madrid and Arsenal fans. Martin Odegaard is on the books at Madrid and has already made an impression at the Emirates after having joined the Gunners on loan as recently as this January. KRISTOFFER AJER RUNE JARSTEIN MARTIN ØDEGAARD HAITAM ALEESAMI BJØRN JOHNSEN LEO ØSTIGÅRD PATRICK BERG JOSHUA KING JENS PETTER HAUGE SANDER BERGE MARTIN LINNES STIAN RODE GREGERSEN MOHAMED ELYOUNOUSSI MARIUS LODE JULIAN RYERSON IVER FOSSUM BIRGER MELING ALEXANDER SØRLOTH RUBEN GABRIELSEN FREDRIK MIDTSJØ STEFAN STRANDBERG STEN GRYTEBUST MATS MØLLER DÆHLI JONAS SVENSSON ERLING HAALAND TOKMAC NGUEN MORTEN THORSBY ANDRÉ HANSEN ØRJAN NYLAND KRISTIAN THORSTVEDT 7 8 GIBRALTAR PLAYER PROFILE INTRODUCING Aymen Full name? Preferred style of football? How many teams have you Aymen Mouelhi. I like to defend. As I’m a played for? defender I like to defend, Five. Nickname? to hold and to stop strikers Aymen. scoring goals. What is your day job? Apart from football i work as Age? Footballing idol? a part time security officer. 34. Tough one but I like fabio cannavaro a lot. Favourite thing about Preferred foot? gibraltar? Right. Favourite footballing Everything but if I had to say memory? one, I’d say the people here. Preferred position? When we won the last games They are very nice and very Centre back. with gibraltar the group in welcoming and helped me the nations league. That’s the adapt and enjoy everything If you had to play in best one, we made history here. another position, where here for gibraltar. That is the would you play? best memory I have in my What football team do you Centre defensive midfield. career. support? Barcelona. How many languages do you speak? Four. Where were you born? Tunisia. 9 INTERVIEW ayce Olivero What has Julio brought to the team and We keep that historic moment in our hearts how has he improved you as a player? but we know that a lot of hard work needs I think since the first dayj he came in he’s to be done to continue improving. We’re a brought many great things to the team. group and this is down to the mentality that Julio has installed in the team of not giving One of the most important things he’s done up. is stress the importance of having a family environment within the team and giving all for We remain humble and we keep going. each other both on and off the pitch. Hopefully we can have many historic mo- ments in the near future. I think that has been shown by the team, the way we all fight for each other, he’s raised the How has your time in England help importance of what we play for and what we develop you as a player? fight for. Looking back at it now it was a very valuable experience for me. On an individual aspect, well he’s given me so much confidence and belief in being able to Being here in the comfort of home is always express myself. He gives each player the tools good but I think you need to step out of your to flourish on the pitch and then it’s up to the comfort zone to try and improve and take player to play the game they know best and your game to the next level. give everything. In England it was a different style of play to I’m really grateful. here in Gib, it was a very physical game.