Hossam Hassan and the blurring of lines between football and politics in Egypt

The Guardian · 5 days ago

Australia
1

FIFA WC26
1-1
Finished

Egypt
1

Key moments

1. 13'
   Goal
   EMAM ASHOUR (Egypt) scores!!
2. 55'
   Goal
   MOHAMED HANY (Egypt) scores an own
3. 91'
   Yellow card
   SAAFAN ELSAGHIR (Staff) (Egypt) is booked
4. 104'
   Yellow card
   HAISSEM HASSAN (Egypt) is booked by
5. 120'
   Yellow card
   YASSER IBRAHIM (Egypt) is booked by

Squads

Australia squad

• Selected
• 3 Alessandro CIRCATI
  Defender
• 5 Jordan BOS
  Defender
• 8 Connor METCALFE
  Midfielder
• 13 Aiden ONEILL
  Midfielder
• 16 Aziz BEHICH
  Defender
• 17 Nestory IRANKUNDA
  Forward
• 18 Patrick BEACH
  Goalkeeper
• 19 Harry SOUTTAR
  C Defender
• 20 Cristian VOLPATO
  Forward
• 22 Jackson IRVINE
  Midfielder
• 25 Lucas HERRINGTON
  Defender
• 1 Mathew RYAN
  Goalkeeper
• 2 Milos DEGENEK
  Defender
• 6 Jason GERIA
  Defender
• 9 Mohamed TOURE
  Forward
• 10 Ajdin HRUSTIC
  Forward
• 11 Awer MABIL
  Forward
• 12 Paul Izzo
  Goalkeeper
• 14 Cameron DEVLIN
  Midfielder
• 15 Kai TREWIN
  Defender
• 21 Cameron BURGESS
  Defender
• 23 Nishan VELUPILLAY
  Forward
• 24 Paul OKON-ENGSTLER
  Midfielder
• 26 Tete YENGI
  Forward
• Full squad
• 4 Jacob ITALIANO
  Defender
• 7 Mathew LECKIE
  Forward

Egypt squad

• Selected
• 2 YASSER IBRAHIM
  Defender
• 3 MOHAMED HANY
  Defender
• 5 RAMY RABIA
  Defender
• 8 EMAM ASHOUR
  Midfielder
• 10 MOHAMED SALAH
  C Forward
• 11 MOSTAFA ZICO
  Midfielder
• 14 HAMDY FATHY
  Midfielder
• 15 KARIM HAFEZ
  Defender
• 19 MARAWAN ATTIA
  Midfielder
• 22 OMAR MARMOUSH
  Forward
• 23 MOSTAFA SHOUBIR
  Goalkeeper
• 1 MOHAMED ELSHENAWY
  Goalkeeper
• 4 HOSSAM ABDELMAGUID
  Defender
• 7 TREZEGUET
  Forward
• 9 HAMZA ABDELKARIM
  Forward
• 12 Haissem HASSAN
  Forward
• 16 MAHDY SOLIMAN
  Goalkeeper
• 18 NABIL DONGA
  Midfielder
• 20 IBRAHIM ADEL
  Forward
• 21 MAHMOUD SABER
  Midfielder
• 24 TAREK ALAA
  Defender
• 25 ZIZO
  Forward
• 26 MOHAMED ALAA
  Goalkeeper
• Full squad
• 6 MOHAMED ABDELMONEIM
  Defender
• 13 AHMED FATOUH
  Defender
• 17 MOHANAD LASHIN
  Midfielder

Egypt face Australia in a historic World Cup game on Friday and the manager has been keen to highlight president Al-Sisi’s role in the achievementAfter Egypt’s 3-1 victory over New Zealand at the World Cup, the national team coach, Hossam Hassan, issued a statement of gratitude to the country’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.Al-Sisi had sent…

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