{"id":3994,"date":"2024-02-04T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2024-02-04T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:31:47","slug":"efa-pledge-shake-up-of-egyptian-mens-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/02\/04\/efa-pledge-shake-up-of-egyptian-mens-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>EFA Pledge Shake -Up of Egyptian Men\u2019s National Team<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (February 4<sup>th<\/sup> 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rui Vit\u00f3ria Thanked but Let Go<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) met this afternoon to discuss the disastrous Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2023 campaign. It voted for a shake-up of the organisation of the Men\u2019s National Team. Technical Director Rui Vit\u00f3ria and his assistants were thanked for their service. The former title-wining coach of Benfica\u2019s $2.4m per year contract was terminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It followed a disastrous AFCON where the finalists of two years ago (beaten by S\u00e9n\u00e9gal on penalties), denying the Pharaohs an eighth African title exited this edition with a whimper without winning a single match. Mohamed Salah, told journalists that he wanted Rui Vit\u00f3ria to continue his job with Pharaohs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However legendary Pharaohs\u2019 coach Captain Hassan Shehata thought Rui Vit\u00f3ria had to go. Shehata wanted a local coach to be appointed to succeed the Portuguese former Technical Director. Shehata, the only coach to have won three AFCON titles in a row (2006, 2008 and 2010) suggested Egypt legend Hossam Hassan as a suitable replacement as he knew Egypt\u2019s football philosophy and players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Foreign Director Again<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EFA chose a different route. Mohamed Youssef was appointed as the interim general coach until a foreign technical director and his team can be appointed. The meeting also decided that two local coaches would be selected to be assisted abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Alaa Nabil was appointed technical director of the Federation according to a post on its facebook account by the EFA (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/vpsS89bN6gG4CrSL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/vpsS89bN6gG4CrSL\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We broke the story that Rui Vit\u00f3ria\u2019s fate would be decided at this meeting earlier today (see <a href=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/02\/04\/breaking-news\/?fbclid=IwAR3ouNiG-V6DwpAK09BX29HzeUXtL7qRJw3MiaSrpydyQzZwIF10c2KLyYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/02\/04\/breaking-news\/?fbclid=IwAR3ouNiG-V6DwpAK09BX29HzeUXtL7qRJw3MiaSrpydyQzZwIF10c2KLyYU<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (February 4th 2024) Rui Vit\u00f3ria Thanked but Let Go The Board of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) met this afternoon<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[672,674,557,660,675],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}