TEAM COMPOSITION

ARA / Al-Rayyan Sport Club

Doha, Qatar

Team manager	Al-Malki Nasser Rashid
Coach	Arbutina Igor
Assistant coach	Popovic Dragan
Assistant coach 2	Al-Abdulla Mubarak Rashid
Doctor	Jalasi Nader
Physiotherapist	Arnaout Mohamed
Journalist

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Country
	1	Osamn	Hassn Ajab	Ajab	21.07.1981	200	80	330	315	QAT
	2	Ali	Hassan Asadi	Ali Asadi	07.01.1986	184	75	311	305	QAT
	5	Georgi	Bratoev	Bratoev G.	21.10.1987	202	98	347	325	BUL
L	7	Suliman	Saeed Saad	Suliman	30.06.1987	180	75	0	0	QAT
	8	Mohamed	Al-Oui	Mohamed	04.08.1989	198	90	338	326	QAT
	9	Ali	Ishaq Sherwel	Ali Ishaq	13.02.1979	188	80	325	315	QAT
	10	Valentin	Bratoev	Bratoev V.	21.10.1987	201	87	335	315	BUL
	11	Rodrigo	Santana	Rodrigão	17.04.1979	205	85	350	328	BRA
	12	Mubarak	Dahi Waleed	Mubarak	01.04.1991	202	92	330	315	ARA
	13	Mikko	Oivanen	Oivanen Mi	26.05.1986	198	92	360	320	FIN
	16	David	Lee	Lee	08.03.1982	203	105	350	325	USA
	18	Sirianis	Mendez	Mendez	14.03.1983	193	81	350	320	CUB

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Al-Rayyan have been builing themselves up for several years now, achieving a string of successes in recent competitions.

In 2011 they took first place at the GCC Champions Cup and second in the Qatar Federation Cup. They finished second in the Qatar Superliga 2010 and third in 2011, and both of those years they also won the Heir Apparent Cup. In 2010 they also won the Emir Cup, coming second in the same competition in 2011.

The club hired four top athletes to strengthen the team before the 2012 Club World Championships. These include Rodrigao Santana from Brazil, the Bulgarian brothers Georgi and Valentin Bratoev, and the American David Lee, a gold medallist in Beijing 2008.

Coach profile

Igor Arbutina has coached Al-Rayyan since 2010, after serving as the Qatari national team coach from 2007 to 2010.

Arbutina's first club was OK Karlovac in Croatia, where he started in 1992. He continued coaching for a string of clubs, and took the helm of the Croatian national team from 1997 to 2002. He coached MSC Moers and Rote Raben Vilsbiburg in Germany's Bundesliga between 2003 and 2007 before moving to Qatar.

The 40-year-old Croatian was born in that country's capital, Zagreb.