In a new statement that comes hours after widespread controversy over the fate of the coach of the Egyptian national team, member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association, Helmy Mashhour, denied the rumors of a decision not yet announced to dismiss the coach of the team, Ihab Galal, after the heavy loss of the Ethiopian team. In the framework of qualifying for the African Nations Cup, considering that Jalal is a “great value”.
This comes after the head of the Egyptian Football Association, Gamal Allam, hinted, on Saturday, to dismissing the national team coach, after he played under his leadership only two matches in the qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations scheduled for its finals in Cote d’Ivoire, next year.
Jalal and Al-Ittihad were subjected to a storm of criticism due to the disastrous performance of the “Pharaohs” team against its Ethiopian counterpart, and its loss with two clean goals in Malawi in the second round of the Group D competition, after a lackluster display and a difficult victory over its guest Guinea with a single goal, in the first match of the former coach of Pyramids , at the head of the technical management of the Pharaohs national team, succeeding Portuguese Carlos Queiroz.
Allam said in statements TV: “The two board members of the Federation, Hazem Emam and Muhammad Barakat, were assigned to study the CVs of foreign coaches.”
He added, “We would announce this next Thursday, pending the return of the national team after facing its South Korean counterpart in a friendly.”
But famous said in statements Television, “Allam means that Hazem Emam and Mohamed Barakat are studying biographies regarding the selection of the coach of the Olympic team and the coach of the federation only,” according to what the newspaper “Al-Shorouk Cairo” quoted television statements.
It is noteworthy that Barakat and Imam offered to assign the task of training the “Pharaohs” to an Egyptian coach, and expressed their desire to hire a foreign coach.
Allam said, “We contracted with Ihab Jalal after we were surprised that the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, the former coach of the national team, would not stay with us. We contracted with an Egyptian coach due to the lack of financial liquidity in the US dollar.”
In response to a question about whether the Egyptian Federation was hasty in choosing Jalal?, he said, “This is possible, but there can be a course correction.”
But Mashhour refused to accuse Al-Ittihad of being hasty in choosing Jalal, adding that “he was chosen carefully. He said, “Maybe he did not succeed in the Ethiopia match, and in all truth, we were very bad as players and technical management, and we must admit that.”
He pointed out that the president of the federation, Jamal Allam, went to the team and the technical staff after the match and tightened their support and demanded that they compensate for the loss, all of these are indications that Jalal is staying with the team.
On the demands for the resignation of the federation, he said, “The members are elected by a general assembly that decides, not social media. We are continuing in our place to develop Egyptian football. We began our mission in January and entered the African Championship and then (the decisive stage) for the World Cup qualifiers, and we did not even take our time right Now”.
Allam issued an official statement later, in which he said: “I did not authorize the dismissal of Ehab Jalal, and my statement was clear that we are studying all alternatives until the final decision is taken during the next council meeting. coming.”