Will Abu Rida succeed in “containing” Hossam Hassan?
Hani Abu Rida, President of the Football Association, holds a meeting with the technical staff of the first national team, led by twins Hossam and Ibrahim Hassan, to discuss arrangements for the next camp in preparation for the resumption of the World Cup qualifiers, which will be in March, and the possibility of traveling to Sierra Leone in the sixth round by private plane, while the Ethiopia match in the fifth round will be held in Cairo. Abu Rida will also demand that the twins play friendly matches with strong teams such as Morocco and Senegal, and not the weak teams on the continent. African.
Aburaida is expected to try» Containing "what is said about the existence of a dispute between him and Hossam Hassan against the backdrop of the dean’s earlier, before Abu Rida took charge of Jabaliya, making statements against him when he announced his intention to run in the Football Association elections, and he specifically said that he rejects the return of old faces to Jabaliya again, in addition to a statement Hossam Hassan said that the Premier League does not produce international players, which made some wonder how the technical director included local players in the national team? Especially since most of the championships he achieved came at the hands of players from the league.
A private source says that the results achieved by Hossam Hassan with the national team qualified him for the next African Nations Finals, which will be held in Morocco from next December 21 to January 19. From the year 2026 In addition to the team’s journey in the World Cup qualifiers, which will resume next March, which the team leads with 10 points from its victory over Djibouti 6-0, then over Sierra Leone 2-0 during the reign of former Portuguese coach Rui Vitoria, then achieving a win over Burkina Faso 2-1 and finally a draw with Guinea Bissau with a goal for each team after Hossam Hassan took charge of the national team. The finals will be held in 2026 in three countries: the United States of America, Mexico and Canada.
Hani Abu Rida believes that the results are what decide the stay or departure of any coach.. The source says that The real test for Hossam will be in the upcoming African Nations Championship, in which he will face strong teams such as Senegal, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire and Algeria. The President of the Football Association had decided in its first meeting, which was held on December 11, the day after the General Assembly of Jabalia, to form a technical committee headed by the technical director. Former national team player Hassan Shehata, but it has not been definitively determined what her specialty will be and whether it will have a relationship with the first team or not, and if that happens… will he be accepted? Hossam Hassan is supervised by a technical committee?
The national team’s technical staff is currently monitoring the Premier League matches in order to determine the level of international players, in addition to the possibility of including any new faces that may shine with their team in the league competition. The technical staff also communicates with professionals abroad and follows their matches, led by the star Mohamed Salah, the top scorer in the English Premier League, Omar Marmoush, Mostafa Mohamed, Mahmoud Hassan Trezeguet, and Mohamed Abdel Moneim.
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