沙特阿拉伯的足球成绩是海湾国家中最优秀的,它是三届亚洲杯得主,两次亚洲杯亚军,在阿拉伯国家中唯一一支连续三次杀入世界杯决赛圈的球队,而且在1994年美国世界杯上击败比利时和摩洛哥,以小组第二身份进入16强,这是亚洲球队除了朝鲜队在1966年英格兰创造奇迹之外的唯一一次从世界杯决赛圈的小组赛中出线。沙特理所应当的是西亚足球的老大,尤其是当他在世界杯预选赛中把他们最强大的对手伊朗给灭了之后。 Saudi Arabia’s soccer achievements are among the best in the Gulf countries. It is the only three Asian Cup winners, two runners-up in the Asian Cup, the only team in the Arab countries to reach the World Cup finals three times in a row, and in 1994 Beating Belgium and Morocco at the U.S. World Cup and entering the 16th as a team second was the only Asian team to qualify from the group stage of the World Cup finals except North Korea’s miracles of 1966 in England. Saudi Arabia should have been the boss of Western Asian football, especially after he eliminated Iran, his strongest rival, in the World Cup qualifier.