The Egyptian team is in Group D in the Arab Cup, along with the teams of Lebanon, Sudan and Algeria.
The “Pharaohs” list witnessed the absence of professionals due to the tournament being held outside the “international agenda”, as well as the absence of Pyramids players due to their association with the African Confederation Cup.
List of surprises
Queiroz included Mohamed El-Shennawy, Mahmoud Gad and Mohamed Sobhi in the team’s goalkeeper, while the Portuguese coach excluded Zamalek goalkeeper Mohamed Abu Jabal and Mohamed Bassam, the guard of the Vanguards of the Army.
In the defense line, Queiroz’s choices came as follows, Akram Tawfiq, Ahmed Fattouh, Mahmoud Hamdi Al-Wansh, Ayman Ashraf, Ahmed Yassin, Muhammad Abdel Moneim and Marwan Daoud, while Queiroz’s international defender Mahmoud Alaa, the player of Zamalek and the Pharaohs’ last camp to face Angola, came out of Queiroz’s accounts. and Gabon.
Regarding the choices of the midfielders, Hamdi Fathi, Amr Al-Sulayya, Muhannad Lashin, Omar Kamal Abdel Wahed, Imam Ashour, Ahmed Refaat, Ahmed Sayed Zizou, Mohamed Magdy Afsha, Mustafa Fathi, and Hussein Faisal joined, while Queirush decided to exclude Tariq Hamed, the Zamalek player for the time. The second in a row after the Portuguese coach excluded him from the matches of Angola and Gabon in the African qualifiers for the World Cup finals.
In the offensive line, the coach settled on the trio of Marwan Hamdi from Smouha, Mohamed Sherif, Al-Ahly player, and Osama Faisal from the Al-Ahly Bank team.
wide controversy
Regarding Queiroz’s choices for the Egyptian national team’s list to participate in the Arab Cup, sports critic Abdel Hamid Farraj comments, in exclusive statements to “Sky News Arabia”: “Queiroz continues his experiences in his strong and diverse choices, especially after he qualified for the decisive role in the African qualifiers for the World Cup. Queiroz considers the Arab Cup competition a friendly and experimental tournament, so the coach prefers to try elements that may benefit him in the coming period.”
The sports critic admires Queiroz’s choices for the Egypt national team’s list, saying: “Queiroz’s choices raised some questions because the list contains choices that I think are “strange”, as the list does not have a right-back except Akram Tawfiq, and this is an exclamation mark.”
Farraj continues: “The absence of a right back with Akram Tawfiq is a similar situation to Queiroz’s last list in the qualifiers, as the coach insisted not to include an left wing, and decided to exclude Ramadan Sobhi and Ibrahim Adel, but it is clear that Queiroz wants to take advantage of the existing elements through tournament to prepare for the African Nations Cup.
Despite the controversy .. “No blame”
And the sports critic continues: “Despite the controversial choices of the Portuguese coach, we cannot blame him because the tournament in the end for him is experimental, and the coach wants to take advantage of the three confrontations in the fourth group, so he cannot be blamed for excluding Tariq Hamed, Ramadan Sobhi or Hussein Al-Shahat. Or any element that was present in his accounts in recent times.
He continued, “Queiroz’s principle of participating in the Arab Cup competition as an experimental or friendly tournament, breaks with it any attempts to criticize the coach in not including players with their eyes, and the evidence is that in the last camp he included Mahmoud Alaa, the defender of Zamalek, then returned and excluded the player from the Arab Cup.”
Queiroz gains
Abdel Hamid Farraj enumerates the gains that Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz has achieved with the Egyptian national team so far, commenting: “Queiroz has achieved many gains other than qualifying for the decisive stage in the World Cup qualifiers, which is to increase the base of choices for the Egyptian team. The Portuguese coach’s boldness and the surrounding circumstances helped expand those Al-Qaeda, and this was evident in his insistence on Omar Marmoush in his first official matches with the Egyptian national team, as well as exclusions such as Tariq Hamed and the inclusion of Ahmed Yassin, for example.
And the sports critic continues: “The dates of the Pyramids team’s participation in the Confederation Cup conflict with the start of the Arab Cup, which helped the coach choose new elements in the team’s list, and this is the most important gain Queiroz achieved.”
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