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Egyptian youth team players celebrate Osama Faisal’s goal in Saudi Arabia
The Football Association announced that 17 players from the youth team, Rabi` Yassin, the coach and the task worker, have tested positive for the Corona virus.
The youth team returned to Egypt on Saturday, after a disappointing trip to Tunisia, to participate in the North African Championship that qualified for the Nations Cup, but the outbreak of Corona cases prevented the team from participating in the tournament.
A statement issued by the Football Association said: “The results of the medical swabs performed at the youth national team mission last night upon their arrival in Cairo back from Tunisia showed the continuation of positivity of 15 players, in addition of the positivity of two other players and the continuation of the positivity of Rabie Yassin, the coach and the homework worker. “
He added: “It is decided that the 13 players and members of the technical and administrative staff, whose swab results appeared negative, will be allowed to go home from the isolation hotel, while the injured will continue in the isolation hotel under the supervision of a team. of preventive medicine of the Ministry of Health to monitor their cases and implement the treatment program that has been established. “
The complete history
The swab that Egypt’s youth team underwent three days before the game in Libya, showed 16 cases infected by Coronavirus, in addition to Rabie Yassin, the team’s coach..
Given this fact, the Egyptian team was considered withdrawn against Libya in the first round of the North African U-20 Championship, which qualified for the 2021 Youth African Cup in Mauritania..
The Confederation of the African Football Confederation (CAF) for combined tournaments for the 2020/2021 season says that the minimum limit for any team to play a match is 15 players, including a goalkeeper, and this is not available in the selection Egyptian national..
Here, the youth team decided to summon players from Egypt to fill in the number and play the rest of the tournament matches, hoping to qualify..
The two new players, Mustafa “Messi”, the Ceramica Cleopatra player, and Ahmed Hossam, the El Gouna player, arrived in Tunisia on Thursday morning, accompanied by a small delegation that also includes Mohamed Abu El-Ela, first doctor of the Egyptian team, and Mohamed Mahmoud, physiotherapist, to supervise the treatment of the wounded..
But the happy news stopped here, after Walid Maher, a spokesman for the youth team, announced the emergence of Tunisia’s new match result, which showed a positive display of new players from the existing strength in Tunisia from scratch, so that the situation returns as it was and the number ready to comply is only 14 players. What prevents the party.
On Friday morning, the Egyptian team revealed the negativity of the Egyptian team players and, therefore, the possibility of celebrating the match. But the problem is that the last swab was outside the official framework, so the approval of the medical committee must be obtained to approve the result of the swab and hold the meeting..
After full consultations, the CAF decided to cancel the match and consider the Egyptian team a 2-0 loss to Tunisia..
On Friday evening, the Egyptian Football Association announced that it had submitted a formal request to the African Football Confederation to restart the match, before the federation decided on Saturday morning to return the mission to Egypt..
