Amr Obaid (Cairo)
Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz, and the rest of his technical staff were exposed to early and strange crises, before the start of their official mission with the Egyptian national team, and social networking sites were angered by the fans of Al-Ahly and Zamalek, who were not satisfied with any technical director of the “Pharaohs” since the era of Hassan Shehata, and is preparing The Egyptian team, to play two consecutive confrontations against its Libyan counterpart next week, may decide the fate of the qualification ticket to the final stage in the sixth group of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, in which the “Middle Knights” occupy the lead compared to the runners-up for the “Pharaohs”.
Before playing any official or friendly matches, an early crisis erupted between General Coach Diaa El-Sayed and the fans of Zamalek on social media, followed by a sharp attack from Al-Ahly fans on Queiroz and his device due to the sudden exclusion of the duo Afsha and Mohamed Sharif, and the legendary “rock of defense” and the current manager of the team, Wael. Gomaa was frank, as usual, when he said a few days ago that the situation seemed to be the other way around, after interest in the clubs overshadowed the national team, before Ahmed Mujahid, head of the Federation’s Management Committee, confirmed that he did not ask for an explanation from Queiroz about his technical choices.
During the previous decade, 6 coaches took over the leadership of the Egyptian national team after the end of the legendary Hassan Shehata stage in 2011. Among them were Shawki Gharib and Hossam El-Badry, along with 4 coaches of different nationalities, and none of them succeeded in satisfying the Egyptian football fans at all, because Shehata was nicknamed “The Teacher”. He tired everyone who came after him as coach of the “Pharaohs”, because of his golden period, which witnessed obtaining 3 consecutive titles in the African Cup of Nations, next to the Arab Games and reaching the highest international rating in the history of the team in 2010 ranked ninth.
The fun offensive football presented by the “Pharaohs” under the leadership of Shehata, especially in the Confederations Cup 2009, disappeared with his departure and the disintegration and retirement of the “golden generation”, and the matter was made worse by the team’s inability to reach the Nations Cup finals 3 times in a row, and retreated to the 75th place in the classification “FIFA” in 2013, and the American Bob Bradley was the first to succeed “the teacher” in training the “Pharaohs”, and despite the acceptable start, the failure to qualify for the “Cannes”, then the “shameful defeat” against Ghana with “half a dozen” goals In the decisive stage of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, she hastened his departure after nearly 800 days.
Shawky Gharib, Shehata’s former partner, came after Bradley to face the same failure by not reaching “Cannes 2015”, after losing back and forth against Tunisia and Senegal in the qualifiers, and Gharib led the “Pharaohs” in 10 matches in just one year and lost half of them, achieving a winning rate of 40 %, and despite achieving logical success, Argentine Hector Cuper faced public and media criticism that did not stop for 3 years due to the defensive performance, which was described as “boring”, and the loss of the Continental Cup in the 2017 final, and it was often reported that his qualification for the 2018 World Cup came due to weak Competitors, which appeared by losing 3 World Cup matches and bottoming his group.
In a short controversial experience, Javier Aguirre led the “Pharaohs” between 2018 and 2019, but he did not make the required development in the team’s performance, and the early exclusion by South Africa came in the round of 16 of the Nations Cup hosted by Egypt to write the end of the Mexican period, as Hossam was exposed Al-Badri is another for a lot of attack and public and media criticism for technical, financial and administrative reasons, which hastened his recent departure and replacement by the Portuguese Queiroz, who does not know much about the “Curse of Shehata”, but he will have to confront it strongly during the next few days!
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