Queiroz must continue working with Egypt - EFA board member

Amer Hussein, a board member of the Egyptian Football Association and president of the Professional Clubs Association, claimed that Carlos Queiroz should continue to work as the team's head coach.

In September last year, Queiroz was elected head coach of

, replacing Hossam El-Badry. He reached the semi-finals of the Arab Cup with the Pharaohs, advanced to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations and led his team close to the World Cup. However, the 69-year-old resigned after losing to

in the World Cup play-offs, a request that has not yet been approved by the Egyptian Football Association.

Now Hussein claims that the Egyptian federation intends to continue cooperating with Queiroz.

He said: 

“A session was held yesterday between Queiroz, Gamal Allam, president of the federation, and Mohamed Barakat, during which they discussed all the issues that he met and the reasons for not qualifying for the World Cup,” Hussein told ONTime Sport 2 TV.

“They discussed the negatives, the plan for the future and his ideas for the coming period with the national team. All of this will be presented to us in the next meeting on Sunday.

“If there is no better option than him, he must continue. The man spent six months, which is a short period in football. So if we do not find a better coach and his ideas are convincing for us and he has a clear vision for the next period, he must continue.

“We have the Africa Cup of Nations in June 2023 and we want to prepare early. We should not sack a coach and appoint another after each defeat. But things must be clear to him, unlike when he was first appointed, when we were not in charge yet.

“We need to talk about this from the beginning. We don’t accept playing for the sake of qualifying for the World Cup only, but we want a strong team capable of playing football. We want to know his vision about the players he intends to build the team around, but building the team doesn’t mean not achieving results. We don’t want the honourable loss, we want a team that wins, scores and plays football.

“The fans are happy to see the team playing good football, even if they aren’t successful, like the generation of 2006, 2008 and 2010. It’s true they won three AFCONs, but we didn’t qualify for the World Cup.

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