Ibrahim shows Qatar's home grown talent can succeed

For a while, part of the strategy seemed to be to scour the globe for talented foreign-born players prepared to move to Qatar and switch nationalities.

Qatar was hardly the first country to look past its own borders for better players but their timing was poor and a clampdown on eligibility rules from governing body FIFA forced the tiny Gulf nation to focus more on home-grown talent.

More than two thirds of the players in Qatar's squad for this month's Asian Cup in Australia were born in the Arab state. The most notable absentee was Uruguay-born Sebastian Soria, who had scored 29 goals in 101 appearances.

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