German Dietrich Weitza, the former coach of Al-Ahly and the Egyptian national team, died at the age of 86.
The German newspaper “Kicker” reported the news of the death of the Al-Ahly coach during the 1988-1989 season.
Faizza had led Al-Ahly to crown the double league, the Egypt Cup, and the Afro-Asian Club Cup.
And he moved to train Egypt’s first and Olympic teams after the departure of Mahmoud El-Gohary after the 1990 World Cup.
But the German coach left the training of the Pharaohs quickly after the poor performance in the African Games, hosted by Egypt.
The German coach’s last stop was with the Liechtenstein national team in 1996.
Weissa was also a successful coach in the German Bundesliga, and his greatest success was twice winning the Cup with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1974 and 1975, leading the Kaiserslautern and Fortuna Düsseldorf teams.
Eintracht also qualified under his leadership in 1976 to the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners’ Cup, and was hardly deposited in the tournament at the hands of West Ham United.
Before he led the German junior national team from 1978 until 1983, and in 1981 he won the European Championship and the World Junior Cup.
Difficult conditions
Al-Ahly contracted with Faizza after losing the league and cup under the leadership of Anwar Salama in the 1987-1988 season in favor of Zamalek, with the retirement of a large number of his stars, most notably Mahmoud Al-Khatib and Ikrami Al-Shahat, and before them Mustafa Abdo and Magdi Abdel-Ghani’s professionalism in Portugal.
And resorted to the German school for the first time in its history by contracting with Weitza, who also left Germany for the first time in his coaching career.
Fayza played during the Al-Ahly training camp before the start of the season and the friendly confrontation of Queens Park Rangers, which ended in a 1-1 draw in a 3-5-2 manner, to offer Egyptian football a new way of playing after years of relying on 4-3-3 and then 4-4-2.
Faizza relied on a number of young faces with the young people whom Anwar Salama ascended to the first team, such as Hani Ramzi, Muhammad Abdul Jalil, Adel Abdel Rahman and Amr Anwar, with more opportunities being given to the twins Hossam and Ibrahim Hassan, with the elements of experience represented by Thabit Al Batal, Ahmed Schubert, Rabih Yassin, Mahmoud Saleh and Alaa Mihoub Ayman Shawky.
The German coach regained the league title, five points behind Zamalek, and won the Egyptian Cup after beating Al-Masry in the final by 3 goals.
But with the qualification of the Egyptian national team for the 1990 World Cup, and Mahmoud El-Gohary asked to complete the local season without international players, which Al-Ahly and Zamalek objected to, the Football Association decided to cancel the season.
Weitza decided to leave Al-Ahly and leave the team to Mahmoud Al-Sayes, who led him to the crowning of the revitalization championship.
In 2009, the late revealed that Al-Ahly had continued contact with him, as he said that Red Club officials asked him to nominate a German coach to lead the team to succeed Manuel Jose, indicating that he had put forward the name of the former star Lothar Matthews, according to “Modern Sport 2” at the time.
Faica revealed that the Al-Ahly administration had specified in its request that the nominated coach be a strong personality and possesses “charisma” in dealing with players and the media.
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