Urgent.. Al-Ahly at Cairo Airport in preparation for facing Mazembe
Al-Ahly football team players, led by Swiss Marcel Kohler, are preparing to travel at 2 pm today, Wednesday, on a private plane. Al-Ahly will host Mazembe, next Saturday, in the first leg of the semi-finals of the African Champions League.
Al-Ahly will meet its counterpart Mazembe in the first leg on April 20, before the return match takes place on April 26. The team is performing training today at the Al-Ahly stadiums in the Nasr City branch, due to the presence of tartan courts, such as the stadium on which the match will be held in the competition, in addition to the proximity of the Nasr City branch to Cairo International Airport to reduce the fatigue of the players.
The training is expected to begin with a lecture from Kohler to treat the psychological effects of the team’s recent loss to Zamalek in the 127th summit of the General League, which ended 2-1… and to ask its players to close this page and focus on achieving a positive result against Congolese Mazembe, before the match with Al-Ghada in Cairo, deciding qualification for the final, as part of Al-Ahly’s endeavor to maintain For the title he holds from last year.
A number of injured Al-Ahly players will be absent from Al-Ahly’s mission and from participating in the first or second leg of the CAF Champions League semi-final against Congolese Mazembe, most notably Mohamed El-Shenawy, Emam Ashour, Hussein El-Shahat, Aliou Dieng, and Marwan Attia. And Yasser Ibrahim.
The winner of the match between Al-Ahly and Mazembe of the Congo will face the winner of the two matches of Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa against Esperance of Tunisia, in the final of the African Champions League.
< p>The Al-Ahly mission is headed by Dr. Mohamed Shawqi, a member of the Board of Directors, to head the first football team’s delegation, while Samir Adly, the managing director, traveled before the team to the Congo to prepare everything, large and small, from accommodation, training fields, and transportation.
