2023-10-29 08:37:05
Imam Ashour
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Al-Ahly’s official Facebook account
Media reports revealed that there was a crisis that surfaced between Imam Ashour, the Egyptian Al-Ahly club player, and his Swiss coach Marcel Kohler, the team’s technical director, which caused him to be excluded from the team list that will face Sun Downs of South Africa, this Sunday evening, in the first leg of the semi-final. Final of the African League Championship.
Kohler excluded Imam Ashour from the team’s roster for the Sun Downs match, following he confirmed in the press conference for the Al-Ahly and Simba match in Tanzania that the player performed at 50% in group training, which is the reason behind his absence from participating with the team during the recent period.
Imam Ashour underwent a medical examination last Tuesday evening, and it was confirmed by Khaled Bebo, the club’s director of football, that the player is suffering from ankle infections, and is currently undergoing a rehabilitation program, in order to return to participating with the team in group training normally.
While sports journalist Ahmed Schubert said, on his radio program, today, Sunday: “Imam did not want to travel to Tanzania for the last Simba match because he felt there was an injury, but the coach told him that the doctor told me that you are healthy and ready to participate, and the player actually traveled with the team, but he did not participate from Basically, when he returned from Tanzania, he was not training seriously enough, and he did not play the return match, and here Kohler decided to exclude him from facing Sun Downs.”
Schubert added: “These matters definitely affect the band, and we hope that the matter will end well. Imam Ashour started well with the band, and a player like him should not be outside the general framework of the Al-Ahly club that we know. He is inside with great enthusiasm and loves to play, and the audience supports him strongly.” “.
While journalist Saif Zaher confirmed that there was a crisis between Imam Ashour and Marcel Kohler and the player was ready to play with the team, indicating that this crisis was the reason behind the player’s exclusion from the team’s roster that was playing in the Sun Downs match.
Zaher added: “There is a dispute between Imam Ashour and Koller, and the issue is big, and the player is 100% sound, and I hope he follows in the footsteps of his colleague Mahmoud Kahraba, whom Koller was able to develop his performance and make him one of the most important Al-Ahly players. I hope everything I heard regarding Imam’s issue is not true.” “.
He continued: “I will not talk regarding the details of the crisis until following Al-Ahly’s return match once morest Sun Downs, next Wednesday, because the team must be supported in this decisive confrontation, once morest a strong and organized opponent, but the story is not an injury or lack of readiness.”
Al-Ahly qualified for the semi-finals of the African League following eliminating Simba team in the quarter-finals, with a 2-2 draw in Tanzania and a 1-1 draw in Cairo.
While Sun Downs succeeded in defeating Petro Atlético outside its stadium with two goals to nothing before drawing the return match without goals.
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