Hossam Hassan, Egypt’s first national team coach, announced the Pharaohs’ list for this March’s camp, during which he is preparing for the international friendly tournament that will be held in the Emirates.
The Egyptian national team camp is scheduled to begin after the end of the Egyptian Premier League matches on March 12.
The Egyptian national team will participate in the international friendly tournament in the Emirates, during the period 22-26 March, where the Pharaohs will face New Zealand, next March 22, and will end its tournament campaign on the 25th by facing the winner or loser of the other match between Tunisia and Croatia.
The list witnessed the absence of Liverpool player Mohamed Salah, while Mustafa Schubert appears for the first time.
Mohamed Awad is on the Pharaohs’ list for the first time since the Belgium match, November 2022, and Mahdi Soliman has reappeared on the Egypt national team’s list for the first time since 2016. To know the full list.. Press here
The philosophy of the Egyptian national team coaches: between the dark horse and the “worrying” bet
Everyone was surprised when Mohamed Al-Shami was summoned for the first time to the Egyptian national team camp, among 3 new faces, as the duo Mustafa Schubert and Mohamed Shukri joined the national team camp for the first time as well.
Note that Al-Shami played 15 matches this season with Al-Masry of Port Said, during which he scored two goals and provided 3 assists.
The Dean was not the first coach to be convinced by a new player, as more than one coach preceded him, most notably:
Local bet
Portuguese Rui Vitoria, who was contracted in July 2022 and left last February after early exclusion from the African Cup of Nations, was relying on a player in every list he announced, namely Mahmoud Hamada, a player for the Al-Masry team, Port Said.
During the Vitoria era, Mahmoud Hamada played 11 international matches. He did not succeed in scoring any goals, but was content with making one goal, in only 664 minutes.
Vitoria played 18 matches with the Egyptian national team, winning 12 matches, drawing 5 matches, and suffering one defeat.
Portuguese discovery
The Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, the former Egyptian national team coach, was credited with discovering Mohamed Abdel Moneim, the Al-Ahly club and current Egyptian national team defender.
Mohamed Abdel Moneim remains one of the best defenders in the African continent at the present time, especially after he played important matches with Al-Ahly club in the recent period and scored the goal of winning the African Champions League title in the last edition against Moroccan Wydad.
Mohamed Abdel Moneim did not leave any list announced by Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, who made Al-Ahly club cut off his loan with the Modern Future team in order to rejoin the Red Castle.
Queiroz was the first to be convinced of Mohamed Abdel Moneim’s potential, so much so that he made Al-Ahly Club open an investigation into the reason for the young defender’s departure from the Red Team, even if he was loaned to the Future team.
Argentine philosophy
Hector Cuper, the former Egyptian national team coach, also relied on Marwan Mohsen, the former Al-Ahly club striker and current future, in our national team camps.
Marwan Mohsen participated in 34 international matches, most of them during the period when Hector Cuper was at the helm of the technical leadership of our national team. During this period, he scored only 7 goals and provided one assist.
Marwan Mohsen also participated in the 2017 African Cup of Nations, during which he suffered a cruciate ligament injury.
The teacher found it
Over time, we will find that each coach had his own weapon, and this was not new, but was implemented by teacher Hassan Shehata, the former national team coach and the holder of the miraculous number in the history of the African Cup of Nations, where he was crowned with 3 championships: “2006, 2008.” And 2010.”
Hassan Shehata relied on Mohamed Nagy Gedo, who was playing at the time for the Al-Ittihad Alexandria team, and made Al-Ahly and Zamalek enter into an actual war in order to sign him after the 2010 Nations Cup, in which the Pharaohs won, and in which the reason for their victory was the striker coming from Al-Ittihad of Alexandria.