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Egypt – Benin friendly confirmed

November 4th, 2008 | By: Tamim | 15 Comments »

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.

we were supposed to play against Tanzania but then Hassan Shehata and the rest of the technical staff changed their minds and chose Benin; the choice was based on Benin strength and reputation as an African team who qualified to the final stage of the qualifications compared to Tanzania’s poor history, also Benin’s style of play won’t be very different than Zambia and Rwanda.

basically, we need more of these matches but against more powerful teams from inside the continent and it is very important that we play as many matches as possible inside Egypt just to gather the fans fans around the team and put them in the mood before the serious matches begin.

the good news is that Mohamed Zidan and Mohamed Barakat are expected to return for the squad and may very likely to start against Benin after a long saga between Shehata, both players and the media because of excluding them from the team.

in other news, the official emblem for the U-20 world cup held in Egypt in September 2009 was unveiled; take a look.

meanwhile enjoy some goals scored by our professionals in Europe this week.

first Mido against Westham

then Amr Zaki against Portsmouth

finally Zizou against VFL Bochum

that’s all for now

Tags: amr zaki, benin, egypt, mido, Team News, world cup qualifications, Zaki, zidan

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Comments

By Mo | November 4th, 2008 at 8:07 am

Great news about Zidan and Barakat… Both will be needed if we are to make the WC and isA advance in it…

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By Rami | November 4th, 2008 at 8:42 am

Yo are you sure you’re playing Benin? We’re supposed to be playing them on the same day…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7703986.stm

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By Tamim | November 4th, 2008 at 10:05 am

hahaha……they actually made a press conference to announce the match!!….but i won’t be surprised if anything happens, this is the comedy of arab football i guess!!:)

By Rami | November 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am

Seriously man, I think you and I could run the respective federations better than these fools!

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By omar | November 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am

nice article…i bet we will end end playin some one else rather than benin altough i believe whtever shehata says but u nvr no its egypt…

By Tamim | November 4th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

rami: it doesn’t take a genius to run football, it isn’t chemistry u know

omar: u said it all “u nvr no its egypt”

By Mo | November 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

“U nvr no its egypt”… Thats pretty much how I summarize the country to my US friends lol…

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By omar | November 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

ahaha becuz its soooooooo tru man…there is no system even for things so high up in organizations like fifa egypt still manages to be “egypt” and pull off some gay unexpected stunt tht jsut throws us all off and makes us all wnt to say “get to a program already and stick to it already” …ahaha dats wht i shud start sayin mo….lol

By Mo | November 4th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Ya its hilarious and sad at the same time…

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By Tamim | November 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am

true, but unfortunately u can’t but love it!!!

By omar | November 6th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

great news we do actually have a friendly against benin..i told u i always believe shehata…i guess egypt decided leave being “egypt” til another day…like the stupid zamalek presiency crisis with dumass abbas…hahah tamim thts y u shud support the club of the centuary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ooooooooooooooooo ahly!

By Tamim | November 6th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

actually omar, i stopped supporting any of the local clubs because they suck; i am now an egypt national team fan we bas:0!!!

By omar | November 6th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

sad to hear tht..at least u can suport som1 no ones is sayin thet r good,,,

By Mo | November 10th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

http://tribalfootball.com/?q=content/everton-agree-terms-egypt-star-emad-meteb

meteb to Everton- more Egyptians in the EPL!!! Hope he does well…

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By Tamim | November 11th, 2008 at 1:57 am

i wouldn’t rely on that, we should wait till it is official……remember bristol city!!

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