El Badry requests travelling to London for following Egyptian players

Hossam El-Badry, the coach of the Egyptian national first team, is considering a European tour to follow up on the professional team players and attend their matches, as part of the coaching staff’s plan to closely follow the players and communicate with them.

Hossam El-Badry is discussing with his assistant coaching staff to travel to Europe in the coming days, and holding sessions with professional players to communicate with them, especially since the last camp for the team in last November, and the new camp will be held next March in preparation for the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup.

The squad includes five professionals, Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool star, Mohamed Elneny, the Turkish player of Besiktas, Ahmed Hegazy, the West Bromwich player, Trezeguet, Aston Villa player, and Ahmed Hassan Koka, the Portuguese striker, Braga.

And Egypt booked its seat in the first level by drawing the African qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, which will be held in Qatar.

Egypt ranked seventh in the teams of the continent in the classification issued by the International Football Association "FIFA", after the African Union announced that the participating teams in the World Cup qualifiers were divided into 10 groups, so that each group includes 4 teams, based on the classification issued in December 2019.

The teams of Senegal - Tunisia - Nigeria - Algeria - Morocco - Ghana - Egypt - Cameroon - Mali - the Democratic Republic of the Congo are in the first level of the lottery that will be held on January 21 in Cairo.

He added that the draw will include the joining of the 14 qualified teams from the first round to the 26 teams classified in Africa to form 10 groups, each of which includes four teams based on the December 2019 version of the FIFA Association classification.

"The CAF" continued the second round of the African qualifiers, which started in March 2020 and concluded in October 2021, with the ten teams winning the groups qualifying to the third round designated for them in November 2021, the lottery will be divided for elimination matches, the five winners of which will be guaranteed in Qatar 2022.