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He wrote:
Ahmed Farouk
Sunday May 10, 2020
08:58 p. M.
Surprisingly, former Swiss veteran Christian Gross, the former coach of the Egyptian team Zamalek, announced that he will retire from soccer training, after a career on the bus that spanned more than thirty years.
Despite his short experience in the Egyptian stadiums, Gros left a distinctive mark on Zamalek’s technical seat and returned the team to African podiums, after a seventeen-year absence, when he hosted the African Confederation Cup for the first time last season.
Gross’s contract with Zamalek was exciting, as the end came the same way, where a preliminary deal was announced between white club management and the Swiss coach in April 2018, before announcing breach of contract the following month. , but in July of the same year it was announced The White Club announced that it signed with Gros for a season.
Zamalek did well under Gross’s leadership locally and continentally, and dominated the top of the Egyptian Premier League table, before Al-Ahly’s return in the final meters, and despite the continent’s crowning, Mortada Mansour, president of Zamalek, decided to fire the Swiss coach before the end of the local season, which ended up losing the league title to Al Ahly
After a career spanning sixteen years as a player, during which he wore the jerseys of several prominent clubs, led by German Bochum and Swiss Newcastle, Gros began his career as a coach led by Phil’s team in 1988, and after Presenting himself as a distinguished trainer, Grasshopper hired him in 1993 to begin his achievements and establish himself as one of the best Swiss coaches at an early age.
Grasshopper was crowned under Gross during the first season of the Swiss Cup, before crowning the league title for the next two seasons, attracting the attention of major league clubs, with Tottenham Hotspur hiring him in November 1997, in a difficult experience for the Swiss coach.
Gross faced difficulties not only putting the difficult team in charge as he faced the English media, especially since he did not speak the English language, and the clash started very early, when he arrived late from Heathrow for his first conference of press, and reviewed the subway train ticket he boarded, stating that he wants this to be the ticket of his dreams.
Gross was deprived of the services of his top assistant, fitness instructor Fritz Schmid, who played a major role in his career, as Gros became famous on Swiss soil for his apparent development of players on a physical level, after Schmid was unable to obtain a work permit on English soil, and did not have much experience. Gross is in Tottenham, where the club’s president, Alan Sugar, announced his dismissal in September 1998 and blamed the English media for pressuring him.
The following experience was the most prominent in Gros’s career, where he spent almost a third of his career as technical director of the Basel team, which he hired in 1999, and continued in his technical leadership role until 2009, and was crowned with eight local titles, 50-50 league and cup.
In late 2009, Gross went out to seek a new challenge in the major leagues, where he took over the German team from Stuttgart, but his experience was similar to that of Bremerlej, where he left after just ten months, before a Switzerland’s swift experience with the Young Boys was not successful.
Gross signed with Al-Ahly Saudi in 2014, led the team to a different technical breakthrough and returned to championship taste, crowning the Crown Prince Cup in the 2014/2015 season, before a landmark achievement by crowning the Arabian League. Saudi in the following season, after a 32-year absence, and strengthen it by crowning the Custodian of the Cup of the Two Holy Mosques.
Gross refused to renew his contract with Al-Ahly, but the Saudi club managed to quickly restore his services after a few months, but his second experience was swift, and then he led Zamalek, before a third term with the city team. Jeddah, which ended in February.
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