02:49 PM Friday, May 3, 2024
Written by Hend Awad:
Olympiacos striker Ayoub El Kaabi drew attention to himself, yesterday evening, by scoring a historic hat-trick against Aston Villa, and contributed to his team’s 4-4 victory in the first leg of the European Conference League semi-finals, putting one foot forward in the final match, and El Kaabi became the first Moroccan player and the fourth Arab player to score a hat-trick. “In the European Combined Club Championships.
With Al-Kaabi’s brilliance, Zamalek fans remembered Al-Abyad’s failure to sign the player in 2018. At that time, Mortada Mansour, the president of Zamalek at the time, commissioned a delegation to negotiate with the player, but the negotiations failed at the time due to the intervention of a Chinese club with a large offer.
Zamalek was close to signing more than one currently brilliant player, but the deal was not reached for several reasons. In 2002, Zamalek had the opportunity to renew negotiations with Al-Kaabi again, after he terminated his contract with the Chinese Fortune Club, but Mortada Mansour said at the time: “ He rejected the proposal of one of the players’ agents to sign the Moroccan striker, given that Zamalek has several attacking players.”
The deal of Mohamed Salah, the current Liverpool star, is considered the most famous for Zamalek, as in 2011, Mamdouh Abbas, president of the Zamalek club at the time, considered Mohamed Salah, the Mokawloon player at the time, needing more work, so that he could join Zamalek, and the famous word related to the topic is that Salah “is not fit.” To play in Zamalek.
Former Nigeria and Zamalek legend Emmanuel Amunike recommended that Al-Abyad follow the Nigerian junior team in the 2015 World Cup in Chile, and he was the team’s coach at the time, in order to include Victor Osimhen, the current Napoli player, but Al-Abyad did not listen to the former’s advice, and included Zambian Emmanuel Mayoka, instead.
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