Salah leads Egypt's squad to face Belgium in friendly
The Portuguese coach of the Egyptian national football team, Roy Vitoria, returned the Liverpool star, Mohamed Salah, to the Pharaohs squad for the international friendly match against Belgium in Kuwait on the 18th of this month.
Vitoria had called Salah in his first squad as a coach for the Pharaohs, succeeding local Ihab Galal last September, in order to play the Niger and Liberia games in Alexandria, but he participated in the first only and scored two goals from the clean triple that Egypt won, before resting him in the second.
The squad witnessed the return of Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny, who missed the matches of Niger and Liberia due to injury.
Vitoria had summoned the local players to a training camp since the seventh of this month, which it concluded yesterday.
Tomorrow, the Pharaohs will travel to Kuwait to face Belgium, which is preparing for the World Cup finals in Qatar, where they were drawn in Group F along with Croatia, Morocco and Canada.
The lineup:
- Goalkeepers: Mohamed El-Shennawy, Ahmed El-Shennawy, Mohamed Awad
- Defense: Omar Jaber, Akram Tawfik, Ahmed Hegazy, Ali Gabr, Osama Jalal, Mahmoud Alaa, Mohamed Hamdi, Hussein El-Sayed
- For the middle: Tariq Hamed, Hamdi Fathi, Mohamed Elneny, Imam Ashour, Mahmoud Hamada, Mohamed Magdy "Afsha", Taher Mohamed Taher, Ahmed Sayed "Zizou", Mahmoud Hassan "Trezeguet"
- for the attack: Ahmed Hassan "Koka", Mohamed Salah, Omar Marmoush.
Mustafa Mohammed.
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