The Egyptian national football team, under the leadership of coach Hossam Al-Badri, announced the team's list for the camp, which starts tomorrow and will continue until the friendly match against Botswana on 14th of this month. The list included 23 players, including the European quartet, Mohammed Al-Nini, Ahmed Hijazi, Mahmoud Hassan (Trezeguet) and Ahmed Hassan (Coca), while missing the star Mohamed Salah of Liverpool.
The list included: Mohamed El Shennawy, Mohamed Awwad, Mohamed Bassam, Rajab Bakkar, Ahmed Fathi, Mahmoud Alaa, Baher El Mohamady, Ayman Ashraf, Abdullah Gomaa, Mohamed Hamdy, Tarek Hamed, Amr El Soleya, Hamdy Fathi, Abdullah El Said, Mohamed Magdy (Qafsha), Hussein Al Shahat, Omar Jaber, Hussam Hassan and Omar Al Saeed.
The Egyptian coaching staff confirmed that the decision to exempt the Liverpool star Mohamed Salah from joining the current camp for the desire to rest him, and reduce the burden of games on him in this period, in order to recover and get rid of the stress resulting from his successive participation with his club, so as to be in full physical and mental health to participate in The next official links. The Egyptian Federation, in an official statement, that the stability of 23 players, and codified the number of joining the camp to impose seriousness and focus, as the technical staff to include new faces in order to know more to their potential, before facing Kenya and Comoros.