Egypt: Coach Dies While Celebrating Team’s Late Winner
Written By Omolagba Oluwayemi
These are not the kind of news we want to hear as far the game of football is concerned but once a while we see situations that saddens the heart and that was what happened yesterday in a second division league match in Egypt.
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Former Ismaily player and El-Magd SC head coach, Adham El-Selhedar, died while celebrating his team’s goal in a Egyptian Second Division clash.
Alexandria’s El-Magd were up against Al-Zarka in matchday nine of the season and the game seemed to be heading for a goalless draw.
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The Alexandrian side, however, managed to score the winner in the 92nd minute to successfully secure the three points.
During the celebrations, El-Selhedar suddenly passed out and was immediately rushed to the hospital. He later died in the Al-Amriya hospital in Alexandria and it was revealed a heart-attack was the reason behind his death.
El-Selhedar spent the majority of his professional career with Ismaily during the 1990s and succeeded in lifting both the Egyptian Premier League and Egypt Cup titles.
After a brief spell with Al-Sharkia, he turned to coaching where he took charge of Libya’s Al-Ittihad and was even part of the Ismaily coaching staff.
Meanwhile…
Egyptian Football Association announced the fifth of January, 2022 to be the date for the new board of directors elections.
After Hany Abou-Rida’s resignation alongside the remainder of EFA board members in August of 2019, a normalisation committee led by Amr El-Ganainy took charge of the EFA.
In January of 2021, FIFA made a few changes to the normalisation committee as they removed El-Ganainy from his position and replaced him with current president Ahmed Megahed.
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Yesterday, in an official statement, the current committee announced that a new board of directors will be elected, and the elections are set to take place on the fifth of January, 2022.
The Statement reads: “The Egyptian Football Association received official approval from FIFA agreeing to their proposed road map, that will lead to a new board of directors elections that take place on the fifth of January, 2022, and that will be before the departure date of the committee led by Ahmed Megahed.
“FIFA’s letter also approved what the EFA had previously done, making changes to the regulations. Lastly, FIFA had also stated that the members of the normalisation committee do not have the right to nominate themselves in the upcoming elections and they can not be elected even if they were to resign before the mentioned date.”
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