Rabie Yassin, the youth coach, responded to all accusations leveled against him of causing the Corona crisis to the team’s mission in Tunisia.
Rabie Yassin talked about the reason for the early travel to Tunisia, and the reasons for not having 30 players on his list, and he responded to the accusations against him from Walid from the perspective of the head of the team’s medical system.
All of the following is on the tongue of Rabih Yassin for Al Nahar channel
Travel early
“Traveling to Tunisia early was a decision made by Walid from the perspective of the head of the medical staff, for fear of some players being infected with the Coronavirus. In light of his advice, I wrote a memorandum requesting the early travel to the Football Association.”
“They say I traveled early and this is the reason for what happened? Libya also traveled early, and Algeria has set up an outside camp in Europe.”
“The national team doctor said that I was infected with Corona from the time I was in Egypt? My test is negative before traveling, and logically, how will I travel to Tunisia with a positive streak?”
“It is a shame to repeat these words to Rabei Yassin. I taught this generation of patriotism and patriotism. There is no national anthem that does not save it now. Do you know that I brought a physical load trainer, a nutritionist, and a movement trainer at my expense for this team, in order to educate them?”
Praying in the mosque and reporting the beauty of Muhammad Ali
“It is not true at all that I forced the players to pray inside the mosque, and the pictures published on the Football Association page show our prayers in the mosque’s outer courtyard. It is not true that I gathered the players to read the Qur’an after they were infected with Corona, is this logical?”
“Since I was informed of my infection with the Coronavirus, I did not mix completely with the team. Rather, I was completely isolated from them because I originally moved to the hospital because my condition was difficult.”
“I was surprised by Jamal Muhammad Ali’s attack in his report? Is you present? We were suffering from many problems and none of them was solved. Rather, he was late in traveling with the mission, so I assumed the role of the head of the mission and this is not my role.”
“Why are you talking about me mainly? I am a technical director, my league is only technical. Did we lose against Morocco, Tunisia, Libya or any team in the tournament? The medical and administrative aspects are not my specialty and I can only be held accountable for the technical ones.”
“I would have died in Tunisia, neither eating nor drinking, and they would ask me to rest, so I would say to them I want to die for the sake of my country and I do not care. Why were the last month’s salaries not spent for the national team? Did we not work this month? I was expecting to honor the players for their historical position that they wanted to continue and fight the tournament despite Circumstances”.
The number of the team’s mission
“They blamed me for traveling with only 26 players. We traveled with only 26 players at the request of Jamal Muhammad Ali, the national supervisor, to save expenses.”
“The list of the North African championship was basically only 20 players. I am the one who suggested to the Football Association that they propose to the North African Union to increase it to 30 players due to circumstances, provided that each association bears the accommodation expenses of 10 players. How is it possible that I will refuse to travel with 30 players?” .
Precautionary measures
“They said that I used to use one bus there in Tunisia and all players lived in one room. These are organizational matters specific to Tunisia, and they used to allocate two buses already, but it is not my hands to place all players in one room. If we had the order, I would say I do not want all players in Arafa one?
“I was surprised by Mahmoud Saber, who is a player with us who plays for Etoile Sahel on the team bus in Tunisia. I was the one who stood at that moment and asked the national team doctor, did this player undergo a smear before joining us?”
“Abd al-Rahman al-Ashry, one of the national team players, informed the doctor that he had lost his sense of taste, but he smelled naturally, and the national team doctor informed him that he was not suffering anything and agreed to participate in the training without a medical smear.”
“The doctor of the team said that he paid $ 3 thousand from his pocket to enter a hospital in Tunisia after my illness, although the team coordinator told me that he paid the same amount for the same purpose.”
The whole story
The swab that the Egypt youth team underwent three days before the match in Libya, showed 16 cases infected with Coronavirus, in addition to Rabie Yassin, the team’s coach..
In light of this event, the Egyptian national team was considered withdrawn against Libya in the first round of the North African U-20 Championship, which qualified for the 2021 African Youth Cup in Mauritania..
The Confederation of Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the combined tournaments for the 2020/2021 season says that the minimum limit for any team to play a match is 15 players, including a goalkeeper, and this is not available in the Egyptian national team..
Here, the youth team decided to summon players from Egypt to complete the number, and to play the rest of the tournament matches, hoping to qualify.
The two new players, Mustafa “Messi”, the player of Ceramica Cleopatra, and Ahmed Hossam, the player of El Gouna, arrived in Tunisia on Thursday morning, accompanied by a small delegation that also includes Mohamed Abu El-Ela, the first Egyptian national team doctor, and Mohamed Mahmoud, a physiotherapist, to supervise the treatment of the injured.
But the happy news stopped here, after Walid Maher, a spokesman for the youth team, announced the emergence of the new result of the Tunisia match, which showed a positive sample of new players from the strength existing in Tunisia from the ground up, so that the situation returns as it was and the number ready to meet is only 14 players What prevents the match.
On Friday morning, the Egyptian national team revealed the negativity of players in the Egyptian team, and thus the possibility of holding the match. But the problem is that the last swab was outside the official framework, and therefore the approval of the medical committee must be obtained to approve the swab result and hold the meeting.
After full consultations, the CAF decided to cancel the match and consider the Egyptian national team a 2-0 loss to Tunisia.
Friday evening, the Egyptian Football Association announced that it had submitted a formal request to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to replay the match, before the federation decided this Saturday morning to return the mission to Egypt.
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