Egypt Leaves The U-20 2009 World Cup

We hosted it. We blew it.
We just left the U-20 world cup round of 16 and advanced Costa Rica onward to the Quaterfinals. This kinda sucks...We could've made it if the team had focused a little but it is you know, the ultimate problem with any Egyptian football team: the maintenance of success. We usually have no trouble attaining a certain level of success and then we're just stuck in trying to attain that same level.

On the not-so-bright-but-still-kinda-okay side, our 'adult' team has a match to determine its chance of making the 2010 South Africa World Cup this Saturday against Zambia. The good news is that, in our friendly match of preparation, we beat Mauritius 4-0. The bad news is, when Mauritius received our invitation to play with them from our National Football Union, they decided to...um...Form a football union. They also did not have any clothes for the match and had to wear some clothes left over by the Enppi Club who owned the stadium on which the match was held. I'm not even kidding, that actually happened.

Anyhow, all jokes aside, we can make it against Zambia I think. If we focus and Amr Zaki (that egotistical, arrogant and recently useless player) is kept in the substitutes for all the 90 minutes and maybe have some miraculous call up to Emad Motaeb and Mohammed Zidan? But yeah, we have a chance.

Take care!