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The investigation committee formed by the tripartite committee for the management of the Football Association issued its statement on what happened with the mission of the youth team in Tunisia, which caused the infection of most of the delegation members with the Corona virus, and the withdrawal of the North African team qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations for Youth 2021.
Mustafa Azzam, the investigative committee reporter, and in the presence of Muhammad Sultan, head of the Football Association’s medical committee, committee member Hussein Helmy and Alaa Abdel Aziz, carried out what they achieved as a result. of his investigation of the truth of what happened with the mission.
The committee made it clear that it had requested a report on what happened from Jamal Muhammad Ali, head of the mission, as well as the team doctor and media adviser.
– Reports revealed that the swab that was submitted to the national team on December 6 was negative, except for two individuals.
Walid Maher, the media director of the national team, revealed in his report that the mission witnessed a lack of commitment from players to wear the muzzle, and after the results of the swab came out in Tunisia, Rabei Yassin requested a plane to return mission.
Rabie Yassin, the coach of the national team, said in his report that he changed the travel date to December 8 with the approval of the Football Association, and that he traveled without administrators or the head of the national delegation, and that later Of the positive 17 cases in the selection, he said that all administrative procedures are consulted by the Football Association and precautionary measures are requested by the committee. Doctor “.
Jamal Mohamed Ali, head of the mission, said in his report that the technical director requested an early trip to Tunisia and that, in his capacity as team supervisor, he rejected the team’s early trip, while the head of the five-member committee agreed to travel early.
Jamal Muhammad Ali confirmed in his report that the mission witnessed a lack of commitment to precautionary measures.
Mustafa Azzam, the mission rapporteur, explained that Mohammed Abu Al-Ela, the first team doctor, found the absence of precautionary measures, the lack of social distancing, the lack of masks and disinfectants, and even found that after they the first swab appeared in Tunisia, there was a slowdown in the isolation of injured players.
Muhammad Sultan added: “After the injuries of the young players of the team, Muhammad Abu Al-Ela was paid, and we found that there was no commitment to the precautionary measures, and there were team meetings with the technical director in closed hallways, and there were shortcomings in the medical aspect despite the disbursement of medical resources for the mission, and we were surprised that there were no Masks with the equipment and early travel required the team to undergo a swab, and two people were confirmed to be injured , and the mission did not undergo a swab after arriving in Tunisia. “
He continued: “We found deficiencies in the application of precautionary measures and a deficiency in the distribution of protective equipment, be it masks or disinfectants, and we found that the administrative apparatus was not committed to social distancing, and there was no administrative director of the team”.
“The early trip to Tunisia spread the infection, plus a player from Tunisia joined the mission without a swab.”
“The result of the report is that there is a deficiency in the application of precautionary measures, a deficiency in the application of social distancing and an administrative deficiency,” he said.
Finally, the committee issued its recommendations, which are the following:
Administrative deficiency
– The existence of an administrative deficiency in including fewer players in the list who travel to the tournament and then send new players to the mission.
– The union did not move to provide an clerk with the team.
Inadequate room distribution and lack of travel by the head of the mission, which led to an administrative vice and the assignment of a non-specialist to carry out the administrative work of the mission.
– Lack of control over the players and this appeared in videos after the first match, reflecting the state of chaos even though they were videos indicating the patriotism of the players and their desire to continue the tournament.
Lack of administrative discipline, lack of recognition of the results of the defamation of the players and the rumor of a conspiracy theory, and these rumors have been confirmed to be not true.
– The approval of the head of the five-year committee for the mission to travel early.
Medical deficiencies
Failure to follow up on the injured partner’s contact cases before traveling.
Failure to swab on training ground before swab approved by the championship committee.
Deficiency in the distribution of personal protective equipment (masks and disinfectants).
Non-compliance by players with precautionary measures during player meetings.
Failure to isolate the injured and their contacts.
The report identified those responsible for the deficiencies as follows:
Responsibility of the General Supervisor and Head of Mission for what happened.
– The coach’s responsibility to travel early and not be firm with the players.
– Bypassing the technical director of the Federation officials and his contact with the country’s officials to advance the team’s route.
The responsibility of the administrative apparatus for not performing a swab on December 6.
Responsibility of the team doctor for medical deficiencies and precautionary measures.
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 African Youth 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 goes back to how it was and the number ready to face 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 results 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 night, the Egyptian Football Federation announced that it had submitted a formal request to the African Football Confederation (CAF) to repeat the match, before the federation decided this Saturday morning to return the mission to Egypt.
