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Futsal world cup: Guatemala 1- Egypt 0

October 2nd, 2008

By Tamim

Well, Egypt played its first match in the futsal world cup held in Brazil against Guatemala and lost 1-0 which is a very narrow margin in futsal. i have to say that my knowledge about futsal is almost zero, although this is the only way we play football in Egypt; but this is our fourth appearance in the world cup so let’s take a look on Egypt’s squad and its group and what should we expect.

First, here are the highlights of the game (silent one though).



From what i saw, we were completely owned in this game; Guatemala should have scored three goals at least; however, we hit the post and were pretty dangerous twice. also we need to work on this very open defense; in most of Guatemala’s attacks there was only one single player.

Luckily, the goal keeper ,called HEMA, saved us from humiliation by putting a great performance out there; personally, i was amazed with some of his saves, great reflexes- should we take him in the national team?

Now, we have three games left; one of them with Argentina and the other two are against china and Ukraine, we can win the last two and see if we stand a chance.

History
Egypt attended their first Futsal World Cup in 1996, when they achieved the first victory for Africa in the competition’s history by beating Australia 8-2. Four years later they earned Africa a quarter-final berth with notable victories over the likes of Uruguay and Russia. Although a draw with Argentina would have granted them a place in the semis, they lost 3-4 to the South Americans. The Pharaohs appeared for the third successive time in Chinese Taipei and despite a first-round exit, they made their mark with the biggest margin of victory in the tournament, 12-0 over the hosts.

Qualifications
we qualified after playing the final of the African championship and lost to Libya in the final in Tripoli 4-3. now Libya and us are in Brazil to represent Africa. good luck for them

Current Squad
1 HEMA
2 Ahmed EL AGOUZ
3 Mohamed ROSHDY
4 Adel FATHY
5 BOUGY
6 Abou EL KOMSAN
7 Ahmed ABOU SERIE
8 MIZO
9 Sameh SALEH
10 Abdel Hakim MOHAMED
11 Ramadan SAMASRY
12 Mohamed SAYED
13 Amr EL MALAH
14 Ahmed HUSSEIN

Former stars
Gehad Arafa, Tamer Ismail, Samir Sabry, Adel Fathy, Samir Seif

Key players
Mahmoud Abdel Hakim, Ahmed El Agouz

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