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“If we want to win, we have to sacrifice, you have to change. If one of you wants to shoot in any attack, then he’s on the wrong team, if one of you wants to do what he likes, then on the wrong team, I can’t be all I want for myself. ” Unless my teammate had everything he wanted for himself. “
After many years of the failure of the historic NBA champion, the Boston Celtics, to win the title after the retirement of legend Larry Bird, the team brought in expert coach Doc Rivers, in the presence of a trio of the greatest touches in the world. history basketball, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett. .
Rivers, who failed miserably in his first season, feared that the strength of personality of each player in the terrifying trio would overwhelm the team, both as a play and as a concept, until the solution came along an unexpected path.
During the Marquette University Board of Directors meeting, which Rivers attends as one of its oldest members, one of his colleagues told him, “Your team is going to be great, but … Have you heard of Ubuntu?“.
“Doc, Ubuntu is not a word, it is a way of life. A philosophy that will make your team better.”
Ubuntu, a word from the Zulu language, means that a person will not be a “human being” except through others. Oboto is the essence of the human being, says South African clergyman Desmond Tutu.
Rivers explained the concept to his team through an activity where he tasked his junior players with trying to sell the idea to the senior team – an idea that seemed like a risk in the shadow of the inflated characters in the team’s locker room, but Rivers’ idea was a huge success, so Garnett stood up after the meeting and said “We will return to three and then to Ubuntu!”
To shout out to the whole team Ubuntu.
Ubuntu became part of the Celtics legend, who continued his career and won the NBA title in 2008 after an absence of 22 years.
From South Africa, the concept of Ubuntu, and from South Africa, it is Pitso Musimane.
With an Ubuntu coach, Al-Ahly is making its fifth attempt to clinch the African Champions League title absent from the team since the retirement of its legendary generation led by Mohamed Abu Trika, and starts from where its closest attempts to win the championship they failed at the hands of Wydad, and against the same competitor, Betso Musimani is playing her first African encounter with Ahly.
Stories that Al-Ahly lost Champions League titles in recent years are bitter for their fans. 2016 mistakes with Martin Jol and not skipping the group stage, stunning performance in 2017 with Hossam El Badry and losing the title in the last leg against Wydad, difficult qualifying for the final with Patrice Carteron in 2018 and a disappointing loss to Esperance in Rades, then the Sundowns five-year disaster with Martin Lasarte, stories of no.Al-Ahly fans would like to remember him before the Mohammed V ship took place.
Musimani arrives in the guise of a savior, two wins and a league draw, which sowed cautious optimism among Al-Ahly fans, with the coach winning the 2016 African Champions League title with Sundowns at the expense of the Zamalek.
Musimane knows Africa well, insofar as he faced Wydad the same 10 times, the same number of matches between Al-Ahly and Wydad historically.
Sacrifice, collectivism and last minute struggle for the slogan, were the principles that Rivers inspired from South African philosophy, so will Musimani lead them to Al-Ahly?
Clock – Musimane and Wedad
Before presenting the match, we first have to tell the story of the Al-Ahly and Wydad seasons.
Al-Ahly started his season in a more wonderful way with the Swiss Rene Fyler, winning the Egyptian Super Cup and sweeping the national league, and his career was quite stable in the African Champions League.
From the runner-up position behind Etoile Sahel, Al-Ahly qualified for the quarter-finals to face the Sundowns, who was the cause of the biggest defeat in the history of Africa’s greatest champion less than a year ago.
With a 2-0 win in Cairo, then a 1-1 draw in South Africa, Al-Ahly qualified for the semi-finals, then Corona arrived.
One way or another, the epidemic caused Fyler to leave, and his replacement is the coach who expelled him before the outbreak, Musimane.
As for Wydad, he started his season with Zoran Manuljevic, who left after a poor run in the Champions League group stage, to be replaced by Sebastián Desbar, who didn’t last long either, and then Juan Carlos Garrido took the helm and he qualified for the semi-finals at the expense of his former team, the Sahel, before leaving with the return of activity and being replaced by Argentine Miguel Jamondi.
Unlike Al-Ahly, the team competed for the Moroccan League title for the last 30 seconds of its life, but the title goes to Wydad in the end.
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Al-Ahly enter a poor roster, especially on their defense, after Mahmoud Metwally and Rami Rabia were injured, but Corona’s official swab for the match confirmed that their roster in Casablanca will be match-ready except for Mahmoud Abdel-Moneim “Kahraba” suffering from a posterior muscle strain.
Al-Ahly bounced back on news of their goalkeeper Muhammad Al-Shennawi readiness with his defender Ayman Ashraf, raising the number of their defensive hearts ready to two in the presence of Yasser Ibrahim.
But things are different for Wydad, as according to Moroccan reports, he will miss midfielder Salah El Din Saidi, but his two most important offensive elements, Ismail Al Haddad and Badi Awok, are match-ready and expected to show up. in the bands against Al Ahly.
Al-Saeedi joins a list of absences that also includes defenders Sheikh Kumara and Ashraf Dari.
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Press conference party
Miguel Jamondi, Wydad’s coach, said: “A fateful match and our goal is to qualify for the final and win the title. Our schedule was busy in the local championship, but we are ready for the match. I thank the players for their great effort despite the fatigue and conditions caused by the pandemic. We seek to achieve a positive result before the second leg in Cairo. “
Regarding Pitso Mosimane, he said: “I know Wydad well. A strong team and we respect it, and they also know Al-Ahly well. But we are here to achieve a positive result, and why didn’t we win? We have a lot of injuries, but I can’t complain about this. This is football, and we have already played some games without great players and we succeeded. ” In achieving positive results. I believe in my players and their abilities. “
What does the story say?
Al-Ahly reached the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League 15 times and only 3 could not skip this round.
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The historic African champion failed in the years 1981, 1988 and 2010, the first time was to reach the first semi-final, at which point Al-Ahly apologized for not participating in the match and left the classification card to Electronic Tizi Ouzou (currently JSK) due to the assassination of President Sadat and the Algerian team refused to postpone the meeting.
The second time was in the 1988 edition against JS Setif, Algeria at that time Al-Ahly lost the first leg 2-0 and came back and won 2-0, but lost on penalties 4-2.
The third and last time was in the 2010 edition against Esperance Tunisia, after they won the first leg 2-1 and lost the second leg 1-0.
Against the Moroccans, Al-Ahly played 21 matches, winning 7 times, drawing 8 and losing 6.
Al-Ahly and Wydad’s clashes did not begin until 2011 with a 3-3 draw for the group stage in Cairo, and ended with Al-Ahly’s defeat in the second leg of 2017 1-0 with a header scored by Walid Al-Karti. In total, the two teams played 8 matches, both won twice and tied 4 times.
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Sikazoy .. They both didn’t lose to him
The referee will be the Zambian Gianni Sikazwe, Sikazuri previously led 3 matches for Al-Ahly in the African continental championships, starting with the African Champions League semi-finals against Cameroon Cotton in the 2013 edition, which ended with Al-Ahly qualifying on penalties and then crowning the Title.
And in the semi-final of the 2014 Confederation Championship, he also managed the Cameroon cotton showdown, which ended with Al-Ahly winning 2-1, and the tournament ended with Al-Ahly winning the title.
They also managed to meet the Rwandan army and Al-Ahly in the first round first round of the 2015 African Champions League, with Al-Ahly winning off their bases 2-0.
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As for Wydad, Sikazoui managed 3 matches for the Moroccan team, winning them all, the first African Super Cup 2018, and Wydad beat the champion of the Congolese Confederation Mazembe at that time with an unanswered goal.
Wydad, under his refereeing administration, defeated Horoya Conakry of Guinea in the second leg of the 2018-2019 Champions League quarterfinals, with five free hits.
In the current version, he managed the match against Wydad and Petro Atlético, which ended with the owners of the field winning 4-1.
Sikazwi was also a video technology referee in the second leg between Esperance and Wydad in the final of the latest version, which witnessed a lack of technology crisis in the match, which ended after more than a year in the sports fields. (See details)
Would you like to read what FilGoal.com published about the tactical presentation of the match? You can read the following topics.
Dialogue in Jules – Garrido analyzes the strengths of the opportunities of Wydad, Al-Raja, Al-Ahly and Zamalek
Analysis at the Joule: How Al-Ahly prevents Wydad from building his attacks and hits him with the left wing
Tactical notes before facing Al-Ahly and Al-Wadad
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The game will be broadcast at exactly nine o’clock, local Cairo time, on BBC Sports 7.
