Football World Cup 2018 / Egypt

Football World Cup 2018 : Egypt
Trainer	Héctor Cúper
captain	Essam El-Hadary
Qualified as	Winner Africa Group E
World rankings before the tournament	45
Tournament result	Out in the preliminary round
Games won	0
Games tie	0
Games lost	3
Gates	2: 6

This article covers the Egyptian national football team at the 2018 World Cup . The record African champions took part in the finals for the third time and, as before, could not survive the group stage.

qualification

Mohamed Salah, top African scorer in qualifying

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the African Football Association CAF .

Games

Egypt, which has been coached by the Argentine Héctor Cúper since March 2015 , did not have to intervene until the second round and met Chad on both legs . After a 0-1 away defeat, the third round was reached with a 4-0 home win. This was played as a group stage and Egypt met in Group E against the Republic of the Congo , Ghana and Uganda . In the six resulting games, the Egyptian team won four, lost once and played once. The Egyptians scored at least one goal in all games except in the 1-0 defeat against Uganda. The Egyptians qualified as group winners on the penultimate matchday with a 2-1 win against the Republic of the Congo. The decisive goal came from a penalty converted by Mohamed Salah in the fourth minute of stoppage time.

A total of 33 players were used, 18 of whom were also in the squad for the 2017 African Cup of Nations , in which Egypt reached the final, including three goalkeepers. In the second round Ahmed El-Shenawy was in goal, in the first five games of the third round the now 44-year-old Essam El-Hadary and in the last game, which was no longer decisive for the qualification, Sherif Ekramy . In addition to him, four other players were only used in this game. The top scorer was Mohamed Salah with five goals, who together with Préjuce Nakoulma (Burkina Faso) was the top African scorer. A total of five players contributed at least one goal. This means that Egypt has the lowest scorer rate: only 15.2% of the players used were also successful scorer.

Second round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Egypt
Nov 13, 2015	N'Djamena	Chad	-	Egypt	1: 0 (1: 0)
Nov 17, 2015	Borg El Arab	Egypt	-	Chad	4: 0 (4: 0)	Mohamed Elneny (5th), Abdallah Said (10th), Ahmed Hassan (35th, 39th)

Third round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Egypt
10/09/2016	Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo	-	Egypt	1: 2 (1: 1)	Mohamed Salah (41.), Abdallah Said (58.)
11/13/2016	Alexandria	Egypt	-	Ghana	2: 0 (1: 0)	Mohamed Salah (42 / penalty.), Abdallah Said (85.)
08/31/2017	Kira Town	Uganda	-	Egypt	1: 0 (0: 0)
05.09.2017	Alexandria	Egypt	-	Uganda	1: 0 (1: 0)	Mohamed Salah (6.)
08/10/2017	Borg El Arab	Egypt	-	Republic of the Congo	2: 1 (0: 0)	Mohamed Salah (62nd, 90th + 4 / penalty)
11/12/2017	Kumasi	Ghana	-	Egypt	1: 1 (0: 0)	Shikabala (61.)

Third round final table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Egypt	6th	4th	1	1	008: 400	+4	13
2.	Uganda	6th	2	3	1	003: 200	+1	09
3.	Ghana	6th	1	4th	1	007: 500	+2	07th
4th	Republic of the Congo	6th	0	2	4th	005:120	−7	02

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Egyptian goal scorers
23 March 2018	1: 2	Portugal	Zurich ( CHE )	Mohamed Salah (56th)
March 27, 2018	0: 1	Greece	Zurich ( CHE )
May 26, 2018	1: 1	Kuwait	Kuwait City	Ayman Ashraf (80th)
June 1, 2018	0-0	Colombia	Bergamo ( ITA )
June 6, 2018	0: 3	Belgium	Brussels

Remarks:

• Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup
• Since participants in the World Cup finals were not allowed to play friendly or preparatory games between May 21 and 27, 2018 to protect the players, FIFA fined the Egyptian Association on July 19 for the game on May 26 with a fine of CHF 50,000 and a warning.

Quarter

The team's quarters were a hotel in the Chechen capital of Grozny , where the team could use the Akhmat Arena for training purposes.

Squad

A preliminary roster of 29 players was nominated on May 13th. The final roster of 23 players had to be reported to FIFA by June 4th. No player has ever played in a World Cup finals. Most were born after the last participation in 1990. The following players were canceled for the tournament: Mohamed Awad , Mahmoud Abdel Aziz , Ahmed Gomaa , Karim Hafez , Kouka and Amro Tarek . At 45 years and five months, goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary is the oldest player to have ever been nominated for a World Cup finals.

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goal	16	Sherif Ekramy	07/01/1983	16	0	al Ahly Cairo M	2013	05/25/2018
	01	Essam El-Hadary	January 15, 1973	158	0	al-Taawon	1996	06/06/2018	1
	23	Ahmed El-Shenawy	05/14/1991	3	0	al Ahly Cairo M	2018	06/06/2018	2
Defense	13	Mohamed Abdel-Shafy	07/01/1985	52	1	al-Fateh	2009	06/06/2018	3
	12	Ayman Ashraf	04/09/1991	5	1	al Ahly Cairo M	2016	05/25/2018
	03	Ahmed Elmohamady	09/09/1987	83	2	Aston Villa	2007	06/06/2018
	07th	Ahmed Fathi	11/10/1984	128	3	al Ahly Cairo M	2002	06/06/2018	3		1
	02	Ali Gabr	01/10/1989	22nd	1	West Bromwich Albion ↓	2011	06/06/2018	3		1
	15th	Mahmoud Hamdy	06/01/1995	1	0	al Zamalek SC P	2018	05/25/2018
	06th	Ahmed Hegazy	01/25/1991	45	1	West Bromwich Albion ↓	2011	06/06/2018	3		1
	20th	Saad Samir	04/01/1989	10	0	al Ahly Cairo M	2014	06/01/2018
midfield	17th	Mohamed Elneny	07/11/1992	63	5	Arsenal FC	2011	06/06/2018	3
	04th	Omar Gaber	01/30/1992	23	0	Los Angeles FC N	2002	06/06/2018
	08th	Tarek Hamed	October 24, 1988	24	0	al Zamalek SC P	2013	06/06/2018	3
	05	Sam Morsy	09/10/1991	5	0	Wigan Athletic 3 ↑	2016	06/06/2018	1		1
	19th	Abdallah Said	07/13/1985	38	6th	Kuopion PS	2008	06/06/2018	3
	21st	Trezeguet	10/01/1994	26th	2	Kasımpaşa Istanbul	2014	06/06/2018	3		1
Storm	11	Kahraba	04/13/1994	22nd	3	Ittihad FC	2013	06/06/2018	3
	09	Marwan Mohsen	02/26/1989	22nd	4th	al Ahly Cairo M	2011	06/06/2018	3
	10	Mohamed Salah T.	06/15/1992	58	35	Liverpool FC	2011	03/23/2018	2	2
	18th	Shikabala	05.03.1986	32	2	al-Raed	2013	06/01/2018
	14th	Ramadan Sobhi	01/23/1997	24	1	Stoke City ↓	2015	06/06/2018	3
	22nd	Amr Warda	09/17/1993	17th	0	Atromitos Athens	2015	06/06/2018	3
Coaching staff	Trainer	Héctor Cúper	November 16, 1955				2015
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ T = The player was the league's top scorer in the World Cup year ↑ Clubs in italics do not play in the first division of their country in the season before or during the World Cup, M = champions in the World Cup year, M * = champions in the previous year (current season runs until autumn), P = cup winners in the World Cup -Year, ↑ = club will play in the next higher league in the next season, ↓ = the club was relegated from the highest league in the country, 3 = club played in the third-highest league in the country, N = the club is playing in the highest league

Finals

Group draw

St. Petersburg Ekaterinburg Volgograd Grozny

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) of the Egyptian team

For the draw for the qualifying groups on December 1st, Egypt was assigned to Pot 3. Egypt met in Group A against hosts Russia , Saudi Arabia and former world champion Uruguay . Egypt did not meet any of the three teams in the previous two appearances in 1938 and 1990. The Egyptians have never played against Russia. But in 1955 they played three times against their predecessor team from the Soviet Union and lost all games. In addition, there were two defeats against the Soviet Olympic team in 1988 and a victory against the USSR B team in 1991. The Egyptians met Uruguayan teams twice: in 1963 they won 5-1 against a university team and in 2006 they lost 2-0 to the senior national team. There were four international matches against the Saudis recognized by FIFA, with two wins, a draw and a 5-1 defeat in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup , as well as six other games not counted by FIFA, including a 13-0 win in first game 1961.

Egypt had not played in any of the three preliminary round venues.

Group stage / group A matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Uruguay	3	3	0	0	005-000	+5	09
2.	Russia	3	2	0	1	008: 400	+4	06th
3.	Saudi Arabia	3	1	0	2	002: 700	−5	03
4th	Egypt	3	0	0	3	002: 600	−4	00

Fri., June 15, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Yekaterinburg
Egypt	-	Uruguay	0: 1 (0: 0)
Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Russia	-	Egypt	3: 1 (0: 0)	47. ′ Fathi , 73./Penalty ′ Salah
Mon., June 25, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Volgograd
Saudi Arabia	-	Egypt	2: 1 (1: 1)	22. ′ Salah , 45 + 6 / Penalty ′ Al-Faraj, 90 + 5 ′ Al-Dawsari

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "" Salah ends 28 years of waiting "
2. ↑ fifa.com: Six clubs face transfer bans as a result of FIFA's new process that promotes the immediate fulfillment of financial obligations
3. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
4. ↑ orlandocitysc.com: Amro Tarek Named to Egyptian Preliminary Roster for 2018 World Cup
5. ↑ رسميا - قائمة مصر النهائية .. 23 فرعونا يشدون الرحال إلى روسيا بينهم الونش وأشرف ودون كوكا . In: FilGoal.com . ( filgoal.com [accessed June 5, 2018]).
6. ↑ fifa.com: facts and figures on the World Cup squad
7. ↑ Sources: Kicker-Sonderheft 2018, rsssf.com: Egypt - Record International Players , soccerway.com: Egypt
8. ^ Egypt versus Russia
9. ^ Egypt versus Uruguay
10. ^ Egypt versus Saudia-Arabia