News in brief

- Hassan Shehata announced his list of professional players in Europe who will join the team’s camp in preparation for Zambia’s match on the 29th of march:

Mido, Amr Zaki (Wigan, England), Mohamed Shawky (Middlesbrough, England), Mohamed Zidan (Borussia Dortmund, Germany), El Hadary (Sion FC, Switzerland), Hosni Abd Raboh (Al Ahly, UAE), Emad Meteb (Al Ittihad, KSA)

The rest will be announced on the 21st this month; there is talk of selecting Zamalek’s rising trio of Alaa Ali, Hazem Emam and Ahmed El Merghany rather than that we won’t witness any surprises unless injuries has another word to say.

- Rwanda’s match has been moved to 5th of July instead of the 10th of June after Algeria rescheduled our match with them to be in the 7th instead of the 6th which makes it hard for us to play two matches in 3 days with flying, also because we will fly to south Africa on the 12th of the same match to start our confederations cup campaign.

- Ahmed Solieman has been in a exploration trip to Algeria to check on the training fields and hotels and make sure everything will be ready for us when we arrive there to avoid any silly situations we might be put in; he said that they were welcomed by officials there very much and that there should be no problem with habitation or training fields…….good news!!

I should mention that the game was moved form 5 June stadium in the capital Algeria to the city of Blida 40 km south of the capital.

- zambia announced its squad no big scary names though, take a look:

Goalkeepers: Kalililo Kakonje (AmaZulu, South Africa), Davy Kaumbwa (Green Buffaloes), Kennedy Mweene (Free State Stars, South Africa)

Defenders: Hichani Himonde (Zesco United), Chintu Kampamba (AmaZulu, South Africa), Francis Kasonde (Power Dynamos), Emmanuel Mbola (Mining Rangers), Joseph Musonda (Lamontville Golden Arrows, South Africa), Davies Nkausu (SuperSport United, South Africa), Edwin Phiri (Ljungskile SK, Sweden), Elijah Tana (Recreativo Caala, Angola)

Midfielders: Henry Banda (Zanaco), Isaac Chansa (IFK Helsingborg, Sweden), Noah Chivuta (SuperSport United, South Africa), Rainford Kalaba (Gil Vicente, Portugal), Felix Katongo (Chateauroux, France), Misheck Lungu (Budapest-Honved, Hungary), William Njobvu (Lusaka Dynamos), Felix Sunzu Chateauroux, France)

Strikers: James Chamanga (Dalian Hai Chang, China), Chris Katongo (Arminia Bielefeld, Germany), Francis Kombe (Lamontville Golden Arrows, South Africa), Ignatius Lwipa (Zanaco), Emmanuel Mayuka (Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel), Collins Mbesuma (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa), Jacob Mulenga (Chateauroux, France), Jonas Sakuwaha (Zesco United), Given Singuluma (Zanaco), Fwayo Tembo (Etoile Sahel, Tunisia)

- Mohamed Shawky is considering a move back to Al Ahly since his team is a strong candidate for relegation this season and he isn’t given any time on the pitch, the deal is said to be for 1 million $!!

-Gamal Hamza will move to vasalunds IF second division team in Sweden for four months then to Djurgardens next season.