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June 13th, 2008 | By: Tamim | 61 Comments »

“my players will burn the Egyptian team” this is what Malawi’s coach (i don’t know his name and who does!!) said about the match. am i scare or am i scared?????? , maybe i am terrified from the mighty Malawi team who is formed from super star players who play in real madrid, barcelona,manchester, milan,juventus….etc.

away from this lunatic coach of Malawi, there are 2 reasons -until now- why we should be optimistic about our world cup qualifying campaign.

1- last time we went to world cup in italia 90 we played on this field against Malawi.

2- if you are following euro 2008, you may notice that Holland is marching toward the title just like they did in 1988. so maybe they win the European title and then we qualify and we are in the same group again and maybe hosni abd raboh score from a penalty again!!.

as for the team, the boys are now in malawi getting read yfor the match, we will be missing emad meteb because of a kneck injury, mohamed fadl and abd el aziz tawfik. they are replaced with abdallah el saeed and abd el salam nagah. also amr zaki mayn’t show up for this game because pain in his knees. rather than that everyone is ready for the game.

for malawi team, i know nothing about them except they bet djibouti 8-1 and that they lost from congo. they have no history to be mentioned nor they have famous players to talk about.

the game itself may not be easy, not because of Malawi team but because of the weather (it is raining there) and the pitch. anyway we must win to secure a place in the second round of qualifiers after congo beat djibouti 6-0 and are now at the top of the group with us.

it would be a one side game in the direction of malawi’s goal as usual but as earlier as we score the easier the match will be. i heard there will be much fans (40000!!) so we need to shut them up as quickly as possible.

key players would be hosni abd raboh, ahmed hassan and shikabala because with all these absences they may have the greater role of scoring. our starting strikers would be ahmed eid abd el malek and abd el salam naga7. on the other side, the defense line and essam el hadary won’t have much trouble to deal with.

prediction: 0-3

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By George Ng'ambi | June 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Olama, am sure with over 80,000 egyptian fans, the atmosphere for Malawi players will be tense. But I believe our players have the mental agility to handle any kind of pressure from fans like that. This game will be won on tactics and not “Big name players.” I watched Zidan during the ACN and I think he is up there with the best. However, playing against unfancied boys from Malawi will present a different proposition. The difficulty playing against small teams is that big teams do not have access to most of their videos to prepare for the match. On the other hand, Malawi will have watched most of your players already. I wouldn’t want to speculate on who is going to carry the day in Cairo as I have respect for both teams but all I would say is that “MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN”

The fact that your coach has taken the team into closed training is quite laughable. The question is,why now and not earlier? Is he panicking? If yes, Why? Beneath these questions lies the answer which may not please most of your folks(including Tamim) that your coach respects Malawi. With hindsight he wishes he had taken Malawi seriously before the first game, now his complacency may just prove fatal.

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By omar | June 17th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

yeah that is funny sheahata hasnt taken them to camp before.him not doing that only adds to the egyptian players understimating other teams.No offense but egypt keeps losing to lesser teams and defeats the likes of cameroon tiwce in two weeks and destroys ivory coast. this leads me to the conclusion that they go unprpared to games with the likes of malawi and djoubti.PS who long is zidan suspeneded he is my favorite player!!!

By Hany Olama | June 17th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Well actually George you are quite right, the coach knows he made a fatal mistake by taking Malawi lightly. I can assure you he is panicking for two reasons, one is if we don’t qualify to the final round of the qualifiers he will be skinned by the press, not to mention the fans and will lose his job. Two, well Malawi proved that we need to take her seriously or else we will lose like we saw last match. George, it isn’t laughable, if you see the amount of pressure the media and the press mount on Shehata for losing or tieing one game you wouldn’t find it funny at all that he’s taken the team into a closed camp. He’s already underfire for losing against Malawi, can you imagine? All he did was forgotten for one mistake.

By George Ng'ambi | June 18th, 2008 at 7:33 am

Olama and Omar,I agree with the reaction of Egyptian people towards the coach following the 1-0 loss to Malawi. To underate other teams in a competitive game like the one Egypt lost in Blantyre is contemptuous. But its not only the coach, the players as well have a duty to perform. No one should be spared the wrath.

It seems though that most people are hypocrites by blaming the coach for underating Malawi yet themselves did exactly the samething pre-match. Tamim is just one of them and it would be folly if behind the seens he is also joined the bandwagon, blaming the coach.

You guys have to win the return match in Cairo, otherwise expect an orbitury message from me if you don’t as your participation at 2010 World cup will have been threatened…..lol

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By tamim | June 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am

some people need to go find a job!!!!!!

By tamim | June 18th, 2008 at 10:31 am

none of your business, even rami didn’t say anything about it!!!…………… please if u will use bad words, don’t use them here.

By Tamim | June 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am

who said it was u, i said someone…….everybody knows himself!!!!!!!!!

By George Ng'ambi | June 18th, 2008 at 10:39 am

You are a bad loser and dont have the ammunition. An embarrassment to your society. I will not engage you anymore. Olama, and Omar have sanity and you don’t.

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By Tamim | June 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am

that’s better….el 7amdulellah……ma3 el salama yabo 3emma 7′adra…..lol

By George Ng'ambi | June 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am

And tell me how did Egypt equalise in a match that ended 0-0 against Tunisia. Undiyankhe msanga!!!

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By Tamim | June 18th, 2008 at 10:45 am

didn’t you say u will not engage with me again……keep ur word!!!!!!

By Tifa | June 19th, 2008 at 12:40 am

George u must be a loser with no life. y the heck do u care what TAMIM write this is called THE EGYPTIAN BLOG not the Malawi one and we could post w/e we want u don’t like it then make ur own blog and talk smack to urself. So what u beat Egypt who gives a crap. its over u want us to clap for ur country that couldn’t even broadcast the game or what.

By allen gondwe | June 19th, 2008 at 6:25 am

no chance for egypt malawi i s going to win,tough luck

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By Manyi Onyera | June 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

Tinyera pabwalo panu Sunday. tikuchinyani inu munvetsa. We will come and bite again. Malawi Moto. Egypt Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

By gologolo | June 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Come these other teams, but not egypt. Sunday is the day to continue where Malawi stoped. We will spoil the name EGYPT. MAY GOD THE MERCIFULL BE ON YOUR SIDE MALAWI. Flames woyeeeee!!!!!

By gwenembe | June 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Fellow Flames –(Fulemushi) supporters. Malawi is a very dignified country. So I ask, let us be civil and be the best ambassadors of our land. Chances are, Egyptian fans cannot read chichewa so please do not be unsportsmanlike by writing that which your opposng fans cannot read moe so refrain from language unbecoming of a solid Flames FAN. Having said that, if we play true Malawi Football of space and move in our old 4-4-2 system we win period. However if we start caving in to psychological pressure from fans in the stands, then we will lose period otherwise man for man we match up very well with this egyptian team and I like our chances. I think Tawoga will start in central mid and then Robert will come in for him. Fischer will have to be intelligent not to just run up and down the wing but coordinate with Peter and Heliings–MALAWI our beloved…these boys can play!!

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By Hany Olama | June 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

gwenembe, you are modest and respectful, but You are truly deluded, Malawi players cannot be compared to Egyptian players, please do not think that only the psychological pressure can win us the game, cause your fellow fans know we are better as a team and as players, our only setback is injuries. Hope our boys will teach the Malawians a footballing lesson so you can all keep your deluded analysis and thoughts away from our blog. Best of luck.

By gwenembe | June 21st, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Mr OR Miss Hany-

Thanks for your pleasantries in your mail includng the delusionary aspect. I will tell you that belief in MALAWI is steadfast. That we match up very well with this opponenent -the team that brings you happiness am sure -Pharaohs of Egypt- ALL NICE and good thank you very much. We respect your team very much-they are African Champs. However,in no uncertain terms please do not get confused here -we respect EGYPT but at the same time we believe, that man for man AND if we can are allowed to play our game (watch us play please), and Egypt plays their game, we like our chances with all due respect. Am sure you are not deluded and am sure you like your chances just like we like ours. One word of advice crowd out the spaces then you will WIN–but you let us have space maamamia–x2. I can assure you that psychological pressure will be the biggest contributor to our success or lack thereof–TRUST me on this one if you can. Again let our boys out in SPACE–you will have a handful.

Good luck to you too.

FLAMES (FULEMUSHI)

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By Hany Olama | June 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Well now that the match is over, I hope you Malawians have been convinced that your past win against us was due to injuries and ofcourse for not taking Malawi seriously. Today we offered you the kind of respect you deserve and it paid off, our main striker who missed the 1st match scored both goals. Hard Luck to all of you and I hope this win will bring you back to earth once again, don not over-estimate the strength of your squad and most of all, don’t mess with us again.

By Hany Olama | June 22nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm

gwenembe, I thought Malawi should’ve done better with the quality of players we had in our side, you started playing only after we scored the second goal, that’s 25 minutes from the 90. Not impressive enough as you claimed the Malawi side to be “maamamia” if they had the space, anyway HardLuck and goodluck in your next match against Djibouti.

By George Ng'ambi | June 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 am

Hany Olama, congratulations for a well deserved win against the flames in Cairo. Football is sweet.

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By Hany Olama | June 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 am

George, thanks alot, still hoping Egypt and Malawi go through to the final stage.

By Falasteen | June 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm

good game for Egypt, inshallah all the way

By Bernard Simfukwe | June 24th, 2008 at 9:34 am

Hi George

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By Esau Kasonda | July 4th, 2008 at 5:29 am

Let us all Malawi fans not lose hope. You know our team has just come out from the grave. Who knew that we would be be giving that tension to Pharaohs. I mean both players and spectators. It will not take us very long to be the big fish of Africa if we just improve a little from where we are at the moment. Kinnah, we are in the right direction. Let us continue.

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