Last season’s Egyptian league champions Zamalek Club announced their withdrawal from the Super Championship, in protest at the decisions of the Egyptian Football Association’s Disciplinary and Grievance Committees, so that league runner-up Pyramids , participates instead. of the White Knight, and participate for the first time in the final of the Super Cup.
impressive absences
The Pyramids are in Al-Ahly’s confrontations with 3 impressive absences, and Abdullah Al-Saeed, the captain and star of the team, leads the absences, after being injured against Al-Ahly in the final of the Egyptian Cup last month at the Cairo stadium. The absence of goalkeeper Sharif Ikrami, who received a 60-day ban from the Confederation of African Football (CAF), continues, despite being eligible to participate after May 28, while Absent from the squad’s roster is defender Osama Jalal. who traveled to Abu Dhabi.
offensive power
Despite the absence of Abdullah Al-Saeed, who has scored and contributed to 25% of the blue team’s goals this season, Pyramids enjoy great attacking power against Al-Ahly Club, and a diversity of players available in the attacking centers and wings. Ramadan Sobhi, the former Al-Ahly star, will lead the Pyramids attack in their bid to push them towards the first title, and Portuguese coach Jaime Pacheco will have plenty of distinguished attacking options, such as Mustafa Fathi, former Zamalek star Fakhruddin Bin Youssef, Dodo Al-Gabbas, Fakhri Lakai, Islam Issa and Ibrahim Adel.
frequent confrontation
Portugal manager Jamie Pacheco had previously faced Al-Ahly in a league final twice before, the first being the most important in the CAF Champions League final, which has been described as the final of the century in 2020 between Al-Ahly and Zamalek, and ended with Al-Ahmar crowning the ninth title in its history, to be the start of a series of negative results that caused the coach’s departure. The second final Pacheco played against Al-Ahly was in the Egyptian Cup final last April, and he lost again by the same score (2-1) in fatal time, so the red giant s is once again set before his dreams of winning a championship.
The first coronation
Pyramids was established in its current form in 2018 when Turki Al-Sheikh, the current head of the entertainment authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, bought the Al-Assiouty club and changed its name to “Pyramids”, so the team has since formed. a major force in Egyptian football. Pyramids reached the final of the African Confederation Championship in 2020 for the first time in their history, and were on the verge of winning their first title, but they lost to Nahdet Berkane of Morocco with a clean goal. Last season saw more attempts by Pyramids to reach the podiums and competed for the Egyptian League championship for long stretches but in the end they finished second behind Zamalek and managed to reach the final of the Egyptian League. Egyptian Cup before losing to Al-Ahly. Pyramids had already lost the Egyptian Cup final, but against Zamalek in 2009, so the final match became a knot the fledgling team suffered more than once, and they hope that knot will be broken. Friday night in Abu Dhabi. Pyramids Club is owned by Emirati businessman Salem Al Shamsi, and will be playing in the club owner’s country for the first time, where he hopes to win the support of the Emirati public to win his first titles in history and celebrate at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium by outclassing the most successful club in Egypt and the African continent.
In the footsteps of Denmark
Pyramids’ circumstances are similar to the Egyptian Super Cup final, with the Denmark national team in 1992 when they were outside the European Nations Cup, but after Yugoslavia were expelled. due to the civil war there, she was nominated to appear in the competition. . The Denmark national team, which was outside the 1992 European Nations Cup, pulled off one of the biggest upsets in football history and won the tournament, becoming an example for every team brought to a competition in which she was not scheduled to participate. Pyramids went from facing Al-Ittihad of Alexandria in a local league not competing for their title due to Al-Ahly’s control in the lead from day one, by a wide margin of all competitors, to facing the red team itself in the Super Cup Final, to renew the ambition to win the title, and in the minds of its players and coaches the Danish experience they hope. In their rehearsal of the crowning Friday , after their highest ambition that day was to collect 3 points in the local league.
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