Well, from now till March we don’t have but friendly games and we will begin with Benin a.k.a the squirrels on Wednesday in Cairo stadium.
the preparations’ for the game didn’t exceed one day in which all the team got to practice together so we can’t use this match really to judge things; however, it will [...]

First, I have to apologize for the lack of posting lately but I have two reasons for this. First, I am stuck in the middle of mid-term exams -the latest one was today and had a question about blogs-; second, nothing is happening with the national team lately and the squad that will face Benin [...]

the search for friendlies has begun and our first match in our preparations for the world cup qualifications starting in march will be against Benin on the 19th of November in Cairo.

Let’s start with world cup qualifications related news.

Instead of mere reporting on the offers Amr Zaki is receiving and the clubs that are interested in him, I thought that I should involve you more in the subject. So put yourself in Amr Zaki’s shoes – I know they are very expensive now- and decide your future.

So we get Algeria, Rwanda and Zambia; pretty good and balanced group for us, in fact it maybe the best world cup qualification group ever for Egypt which make our chances to make it to the world cup very high.
It could have been easier if we had Guinea, Mozambique and Gabon; but it also [...]

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This week, confideration africain de football (CAF) announced its shortlist of players nominated for the African footballer of the year award and two Egyptian players are there.
The nominees are: Amr Zaki (Egypt), Mohamed Abu Trika (Egypt), Emmanuel Adeybayour (Togo), Michael Essien (Ghana) and Didier Drogba (Cote d’Ivoire).

You can say that our performance during this phase of world cup qualifiers was OK where we didn’t do our best but we did what we needed and qualified for the next round as a top seed.
This OK performance was concluded with another non satisfactory rather efficient performance from our team with a 4-0 [...]

a last minute goal from the head of Ahmed Fathi was more than enough o send Egypt’s u-19 team to the African championship held in Rwanda in January. after hope was lost and everybody was switching off TV and the media sharpening its teeth toward Miroslav scope, team manager the boys achieved the impossible and [...]

after i spent more than two hours writing and editing a long piece on Djibouti’s match, wordpress decided that the post won’t be published ; instead the post was published blank. so i apologize for you all.
to compensate you, i will put a very mini preview for the match.