Ibrahim Hassan: I didn’t underestimate Musimani’s potential

Ibrahim Hassan, football director of the Alexandria Federation, confirmed that he did not undermine the capabilities of South African coach Pitso Mosimane, coach of Al-Ahly, stating that his statements had been corrupted.

“I said Al-Ahly surprised the Egyptian League by hiring a coach from South Africa for the first time in the club’s history and from Egypt, after they got used to hiring coaches from Europe and Egypt,” Hassan said in a statement to the “Primo” program broadcast on the “TEN” channel.

He added: “I did not say that Musimane is bad. I said that Al-Ahly in the final of the African Champions League was bad, and it was also in the matches of Talaa Al-Jaysh and Al-Ittihad of Alexandria in the semifinals and the Egyptian Cup final, and I said he hasn’t played a good match with Musimani so far. “

He continued: “I did not underestimate Musimani’s abilities and my statements were distorted, Musimani did not wake up after recovering from Corona to come up with a new plan to confront the Union, and there are coaches with few abilities who led Al-Ahly for a period temporary to win championships with Al-Ahly and go with him to the Club World Cup. “

He continued: “I did not state that Musimani will leave Al-Ahly after two games. I said that if he takes over the training of any other team outside of Al-Ahly or Zamalek, he may lose or draw and leave after two. matches”.

Ibrahim Hassan added: “Musimani has the best players in Egypt and his assistant has won two games, one of them away from his stadium in the African Champions League.”

Notably, Musimani led Al-Ahly to beat Alexandria’s Al-Ittihad with a clean room, raising their score to nine points with the full score and being the only one at the top, one point ahead of runner-up El Gouna and two points behind third-placed Zamalek.