Zamalek brings Carteron back and an unexpected reaction from Chikabala

Zamalek club announced Thursday evening the appointment of French coach Patrice Carteron as technical director of the club's first football team in the next stage, and the committee in charge of managing Zamalek club thanked Portuguese coach Jaime Pacheco and his auxiliary apparatus for the period in which he took over the team's training.

The club issued an official statement expressing its wishes to the new technical director for success in achieving the aspirations of the Zamalek fans locally and continually, especially as he has great experience in dealing with the players of the team who had previously led them to the coronation podiums in the African Super and the Egyptian Super and also succeeded in leading the team to the semi-finals of the League. African Champions.

The French coach had sparked controversy after he abandoned the white genie last year, amid a major attack by the white fans days before the African Champions League final, and he led the French coach Zamalek in 31 matches during the period from December 4, 2019 to September 13, 2020, and succeeded in winning 19 games, tied in 9 games, and lost three games.

The club gave the French coach Carteron full authority to choose the technical and administrative staff assisting him in an effort to provide all the success factors for the French coach in his second term to the team.

In Zamalekawi's first reaction to the decision to appoint the French coach, Zamalek captain Mahmoud Abdel-Razek Shikabala sparked controversy among Al-Abyad fans after he made a mark of admiration for the post of Zamalek player and the former Egyptian team, Ahmed Eid Abdel-Malik, who published it on his personal account on the social networking site Twitter, in which he criticized The decision to change the coach and use the French coach again directly, which indicates the signs of a new crisis in Zamalek.

The Portuguese coach Pacheco, the captain of Zamalek Shikabala, was involved almost mainly in all Zamalek matches, unlike the French coach Carteron, who ignored the player and kept him from participating for a long time.

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