The coach of the women’s handball team announces his departure from his position after qualifying for the World Championship
Rami Abdel Latif, the coach of the Egyptian women’s handball team, announced his departure from his position after the team returned from the Congo and achieved qualification for the 2025 Women’s World Championship for the first time in the history of Egyptian handball at the women’s level.
Rami Abdel Latif posted on his personal account on the social networking site Facebook: “Praise be to God, by whose grace good deeds are accomplished, and with whose gratitude blessings last a journey.” Ten years with the girls’ national teams to reach the greatest goal of reaching the Women’s World Cup for the first time in Egypt’s history.
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this historic achievement.
First: Dr. Khaled Hamouda (former President of the Egyptian Handball Federation), his distinguished council members, and Captain Mona Amin, who was supervising the girls’ national teams at that time, in 2015, obtaining third place. In the Mediterranean Championship and first place in the African Junior Women’s Championship for the first time in the history of Egypt, born in 1998, and obtaining ninth place in the Women’s World Cup for the first time in the history of Egypt in 2016, and obtaining second place in the African Junior Women’s Championship in 2018.
Second: Engineer Hisham Nasr (former President of the Egyptian Handball Federation) and his honorable council members, Captain Alaa Al-Sayed, Director of the National Teams, and Captain Mona Amin is a supervisor for the girls’ teams, and for obtaining third place in the Mediterranean Junior Women’s Championship and first place in the African Junior Women’s Championship in 2019 for those born in 2002, and obtaining second place in the African Junior Women’s Championship in 2021, and obtaining fifteenth place in the World Cup for Young Women. The year 2022.
Third: Dr. Mohamed Al-Amin (President of the Egyptian Handball Federation) and members Dear Council, and Captain Ayman Salah, Director of the National Teams, has taken a decision to return the participation of the first division for women in the African Championship for the year 2022, in which all the generations that I trained participated in it. We participated in friendly tournaments in Europe for strong international contact for the team with Spain, the Czech Republic, Tunisia and Switzerland to gain international experience, and we obtained… Eighth place in this tournament after an absence of 10 years.
In 2023, captain Ayman Salah is preparing a plan to prepare the national team, as we participated in a friendly tournament in Egypt with Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Algeria, and Congo-Brazzaville, as preparations for the 2024 African Championship, with the goal of reaching the semi-finals and reaching the World Cup.
With Captain Abdo Abdel Wahab assuming the role of supervisor of the girls’ national teams, first place was obtained in the African Championship for girls born in 2006, and in the year In 2024, I ranked thirteenth in the World Cup for Young Women, born in 2004. The first women’s team was prepared inside the Olympic Center in Maadi in short weekly periods, and from 7/18/2024, a closed camp was prepared for the team, as there was external preparation for the team in a friendly tournament for the Czech Republic in The month of October in the Czech Republic, then we were informed not to travel to the friendly foreign tournament and to cancel our participation in the African Championship due to poor technical level. For our team.
With the correct decision of His Excellency Dr. Ashraf Sobhi (Minister of Youth and Sports) and Dr. Hassan Mostafa (President of the International Handball Federation), the team will return to participate in the African Championship, and they have a lot of respect from us. Thanks and respect.
This was an incentive for us as a technical, administrative and medical staff and players to prove ourselves and achieve the planned goal of 2022 to prove that the girls of Egypt are capable. I have to participate and compete in the African Championship even without preparation, such as the preparation for the year 2022, and thank God the desired goal has been achieved and the World Cup has been reached for the first time in the history of women.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to reaching this achievement. From the technical, medical, and administrative staff, the players, all the respected club coaches, and all the technical, administrative, and medical staff with whom I had the honor to work during… My career.
Special thanks to the unknown soldier, parents, and that this will be the end of my career with the first women’s national team. I wish them success in the next World Cup and raising Egypt’s name high for the first time in the World Cup. The world and you have all my respect and appreciation.
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