[ad_1]
Officials from the African Football Confederation (CAF) rejected the zamalek club’s request to postpone the final of the African Champions League scheduled for November 6, and Zamalek sent an official letter to the CAF to postpone the final to the next November 8 instead of 6, especially after the white team’s confrontation with Raja in the semi-final second leg was postponed from October 24 to November 1, due to the infection of several Raja players with the Corona virus .
Zamalek had defeated Raja in Morocco with an unanswered goal, scored by Ashraf bin Sharqi.
On the other hand, the Portuguese coach, Jimmy Pacheco, coach of Zamalek, is considering excluding 4 players from the starting lineup for Ismaili’s match scheduled for tomorrow within the last day of the league, as Pacheco wants to give a break to the players of the basic force before the match of the Moroccan Raja scheduled for next November 1 in the second leg. The semi-finals of the African Champions League.
The absence of Mahmoud Alaa, the team’s defender, from Ismaili’s match was confirmed by the failure to complete his recovery and the Portuguese’s refusal to risk pushing him before the Hope match. The same goes for Hazem Imam, who he continues with the qualification program to which he is subject, in addition to the two Ahmed Sayed Zizou and Ashraf bin Sharqi who want to give Pacheco a break. The return, and Pacheco is expected to give Mahmoud Abdel Razek Shikabala a chance in the Ismaili match after completing the qualifying program he was subject to in the last period.
In the same context, the Zamalek players went through a technical division in a part of the club’s stadium, under the supervision of Portuguese Jaime Pacheco, the team’s coach, as part of the preparation for the confrontation with Ismaily, and the provision of the Zamalek coaching staff to implement some technical and planning issues during the division.
Ferjani Sassi participated in this division, despite his absence from the next meeting to suspend it, and he was strong and prepared after his return and recovery days ago from the Corona virus infection, and Shikabala appeared in a forceful way that won the greeting of the team coaching staff.
The Zamalek coaching staff, led by Portuguese Jaime Pacheco, divided the players for more than one group on the sidelines of the training session, and each of them fought a technical paragraph, during which the focus was on delivery and fast catch, and the ball rolling in small areas and Pacheco and his assistants were eager to stop this paragraph and direct some technical instructions to the players.
Although Mahmoud Abdel Aziz “Zizou”, Zamalek midfielder, did some training with the ball on the sidelines of the training session, this comes as part of the preparation program so that the player gradually returns to participate in the group training fully, and the player made a paragraph with some players, especially when shooting from short distances to the goal of Stability and retribution of the passes of the parties, as well as some training for the delivery and reception of the ball, and the player was satisfied with carry out these matters based on the instructions of the coaching staff in accordance with the medical team led by Dr. Muhammad Osama, the head of the system, and Mahmoud Alaa, the team’s defender, continued to be absent from the collective training for executing a program rating at that time. He is currently recovering from an injury, as the player is currently undergoing an intense two-stint program to prepare him to face Raja in the African Champions League.
