Al-Ahly fans and followers of Egyptian and African football in general await hot and decisive hours, given the things that are expected to happen inside the corridors of the Red Castle throughout the course of tomorrow, Saturday.
The start will be early, as a press conference will be held at 12 noon at Al-Jazeera headquarters, in which Mahmoud Al-Khatib, Chairman of Al-Ahly’s board of directors, will speak to the media, during which he will reveal new details related to the crisis of the African Champions League final meeting, which was held on May 30th.
Al-Khatib will talk regarding the scenes behind the selection of the Mohammed V complex in Casablanca as a neutral stadium for the match between Al-Ahly and Wydad, in violation of the rules of fair play and the principle of equal opportunities stipulated by the laws of the International Football Association.
Al-Ahly fans are waiting for Al-Khatib to reveal during the press conference some of the scenes that caused the club not to obtain its full rights in the crisis of the African Champions League final stadium, and the role of the Egyptian and African federations in that.
Al-Ahly explained that the activities of that conference will be broadcast live through its various official accounts on social networking sites in 3 different languages, in order to allow foreign media to follow its events.
Other than that, there will be talks throughout the hours tomorrow evening regarding the details and results of the expected meeting between the club’s management headed by Mahmoud Al-Khatib, and Betso Mosimane, coach of the first team.
Al-Ahly had announced in the early hours of Wednesday morning that Mahmoud Al-Khatib had discussed, through the “Zoom” program, some administrative and technical issues of the team with Pitso Mosimane, provided that the rest of the files would be completed in a new meeting tomorrow, Saturday.
The South African coach is scheduled to return from Morocco tomorrow, Saturday, following attending a training course from the African Union over the past few days, as he will travel from Cairo Airport to Al-Ahly headquarters, to hold the meeting with the club’s management.
It is expected that Al-Khatib’s meeting with Musimani will be attended by Hossam Ghaly, Board Member, Yassin Mansour, President of the Football Company, Mustafa Mourad Fahmy, Company Member, Amr Shaheen, CEO, and the Planning Committee duo Mohsen Saleh and Zakaria Nassef.
According to speculation, all possibilities will be presented once morest the background of that meeting, including determining the fate of the current technical staff of the team, which is awaiting a number of important matches in the coming period, including Zamalek in the league and Pyramids in the Egypt Cup.
On the other hand, while all this is happening, the first team in Al-Ahly will conclude its preparations under the leadership of general coach Sami Kommos to face Al-Masry in Salloum on Sunday in the Egypt Cup, where the Red Genie is expected to play his last match at Mukhtar Al-Teach Stadium, and then it will be announced following that. Team roster.