90 minutes separate the Egyptian national team from the dream of reaching the 2026 World Cup
The first national football team is preparing to qualify for the 2026 World Cup finals, when it faces its counterpart, the Djibouti national team, tomorrow, Wednesday, as part of the African qualifiers for the World Cup.
The Egyptian national team will play with Djibouti at seven o’clock in the evening tomorrow, Wednesday, at the “Al-Arabi Al-Zawli” stadium. In the Moroccan city of Casablanca, within the framework of the ninth round of the first group of the World Cup, where the Djibouti national team is playing its qualifying matches in Morocco, due to not having stadiums that meet the specifications of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Officially reaching the World Cup, without considering the results of the rest of the first group matches. The Egyptian national team leads the standings of the first group of the qualifiers with 20 points after playing 8 matches in the group stage, with a difference of 5 points from the runner-up Burkina Faso national team, two rounds before the end of the qualifiers campaign.
In the 8 matches that the Pharaohs have played so far in the qualifiers, the national team, under the leadership of its technical director Hossam Hassan, has achieved 6 victories, tied twice, and did not suffer any defeat, and the national team players scored 16 goals, It conceded only two goals.
Hossam Hassan, the coach of the national team, had selected 24 players on the Pharaohs’ list to play the match against Djibouti tomorrow, as well as the match against Guinea-Bissau next Sunday in Cairo, and they are “Mohamed El-Shenawy, Mustafa Schubert, Mohamed Sobhi, Abdel Aziz El-Balouti, Mohamed Hani, Mohamed Hamdy, Ahmed Eid, Rami Rabia, Khaled Sobhi, Yasser Ibrahim, and Amr.” Al-Gazzar, Hossam Abdel Majeed, Ahmed Nabil Kouka, Marwan Attia, Hamdi Fathi, Muhannad Lashin, Mahmoud Saber, Ahmed Sayed Zizo, Mahmoud Trezeguet, Mohamed Salah, Ibrahim Adel, Mustafa Fathi, Mustafa Mohamed, and Osama Faisal. Only 90 minutes – the duration of the confrontation against the Djibouti national team tomorrow – now separate the Egyptian national team from the dream of reaching the World Cup for the fourth time in its history, after appearing in the 1934, 1990 and 2018 editions.
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