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| Egyptian
FA investigate Mido injury story |
14 Sep 2002
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A story emanating from Cairo, Egypt suggests that
Ajax's Egyptian international Ahmed 'Mido' Hossam is to be summoned by the
local FA for an inquiry into his absence from the recent African Nations Group
10 qualifying match his country played against Madagascar. Egypt suffered a
surprising 1-0 away defeat 1-0 and, according to almost all local observers,
the absence of Ajax's marksman was the cause of the embarassing
result.
The story has it that 'Mido' notified manager Mohsen Saleh about an alleged injury he sustained in a Dutch league game, three days ahead of the Madagascar outing, prompting the Pharaohs' coach to name Ahmed Salah Hosni
as his replacement but the newcomer proved a flop in the game, wasting two brilliant chances in the second-half as Egypt
went down 1-0.
Local journalists informed the Egyptian FA early this week that the striker wasn't
actually injured at all but, according to the Ajax website, had been subbed by coach Ronald Koeman after
putting on a poor performance in the match against Groningen. The news has
prompted the Egyptian FA to launch an investigation into the striker's
'story'.
Reports in the Egyptian capital have it that the player, who was married to an Egyptian
model last July, even travelled to Cairo recently to attend a special football-school held at
the Heliopolis Club, without alerting FA officials of his presence.
Unannounced trips like this have also got him into trouble with the
Amsterdammers in the past! "He will definitely be subject to an official
inquiry," an Egyptian FA spokesman told local daily paper Al-Gomhouria,
"And we are expecting him to come to Cairo within the next few days to
discuss the situation."
Our thanks to Mohamed S. Chbaro at http://www.middleeastfootball.com
for the story!!
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