Ahmad Sayed Zizo, the first-team player of Zamalek football club, announced his continuation with the White Castle in the new season 2024-2025 despite the offers received by the player this summer.
Ahmed Sayed Zizo received more than one offer this summer, the most prominent of which was from the Saudi NEOM team.
“In any difficult moment, my love and loyalty to Zamalek club increases to continue this journey together hand in hand, thank you for your trust in me,”Zizou added.
Amir Tawfik, executive director of Al-Ahly Football company-director of contracts-also announced the club’s contract with Moroccan Ashraf dari, defender of the French club Brest for the next 4 years.
He said that all administrative and financial matters have been completed with the player and his club, and Ashraf dari successfully passed the medical examination.
Ashraf dari arrived in Cairo on Wednesday morning to officially finalize all contractual matters to join Al-Ahly club.
The Egypt national team player received an offer from one of the English Premier League football clubs during the current summer transfer period to join them.
According to the British Telegraph newspaper, Nottingham Forest is considering making an offer of 20 million pounds sterling to sign Omar marmosh from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Nottingham is seeking to finalize the deal officially before the summer transfer market closes in England next Friday.
The African Football Confederation (CAF) has denied the validity of the letter circulating on social networking sites about the clubs participating in the African Super League in the new season, including Zamalek.
CAF said in an official statement via its Facebook account: the African Football Confederation (CAF) noticed the existence of a fake document circulating through the media, related to the African Football League.
He continued: the African Football Federation denies the authenticity of this fake document, the African Football Federation, in due course, will announce everything related to the African Football League, through its official platforms.
Marcel Kohler, technical director of the first football team at Al-Ahly club, was keen to send a message to the fans of the Red Castle during his vacation, which he received after the Premier League title was decided.
Kohler posted on his official Facebook account some photos of him from his vacation and wrote: “the mountains of Switzerland, clean air and endless bike paths, seven hours of complete relaxation and energy charge, I enjoyed nature with my wife Gisela and friends.
“I am now ready for the next challenges, let these photos inspire you to explore Switzerland for yourselves, I look forward to being at full capacity soon for you, the fans of Al-Ahly, the greatest audience in the universe,”he continued.
Crises of the elected camp :
The football federation officials deleted the statement of only 6 players in the first Egypt national football team camp, which started on Wednesday, and replaced it with another statement on the official account of the federation on the social networking site “Facebook” and the new statement read as follows: “as part of its preparations for the Cape Verde and Botswana matches within the qualifying matches for the 2025 Africa Cup of nations in Morocco, the camp of the national football team led by Hossam Hassan kicked off this afternoon.
“The arrival of local players to the camp is scheduled until the first of next month in accordance with the agreement made between the Egyptian Football Federation and the clubs concerned.. Professional players will also join the camp with the start of the international agenda”.
While the statement that was deleted was as follows:
The first Egypt national football team camp, led by Hossam Hassan, head coach, kicked off today, Wednesday, in preparation for the matches of Cape Verde and Botswana scheduled for two days 6 September next month in the first and second round of qualifying for the African Cup of Nations finals scheduled to be held in Morocco.
6 players joined the Egypt national football team camp, which started this afternoon at a Cairo hotel: Hamdy Fathy, Mahdi Suleiman, Mohammed al-Shami, Ahmed Ramadan Beckham, Khaled Sobhi and Osama Faisal.
It is worth mentioning that the Football Association has notified all clubs of the start date of the national team camp on August of this month.
Comment by Amr Warda :
Amr Warda, the player of the Greek team Atromitos, commented on the news that spread during the recent period, stating that he intends to address the international football federation “FIFA” to represent the Greek national team instead of the Egyptian national team, during the coming period.
Amr Warda astouri posted on his Instagram account a photo of him in the T-shirt of the Egyptian national team and commented “Egyptian and proud”.
Turki al-Sheikh and the African Super :
Turki al-Sheikh, chairman of the Saudi Entertainment Authority, announced some details of the confrontation of the African Super between Al-Ahli and Zamalek.
The African Super Cup is scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia on September 27.
Turki al-Sheikh revealed during a press conference for the Riyadh season:”the African Super Cup will be held between Al-Ahli and Zamalek at the kingdom Arena stadium”.
25 thousand fans
He continued: “This is the first match after the renovation of the stadium, and it will have a capacity of 95% with the attendance of 25 thousand fans”
