Gamal Abdel Hamid, Zamalek board member and former star of the team, criticized Portuguese manager, Gisvaldo Ferreira, for substituting new players in the second half of Burundian Flambo’s match on Sunday in Champions of Africa League , and to push young players.
Zamalek won a paltry 1-0 victory over Burundi host Flambo in the first leg of the 32nd round of the continental championship, but the match took place at the “Borg El Arab” stadium in Alexandria after the agreement between the two. club.
Ferreira added the new trio Omar Jaber, Ibrahima Naday and Zakaria Al-Wardi to the team’s starting lineup, but replaced them in the second half, while Mustafa Al-Zanari also joined as a substitute.
Ferreira preferred to rely on some of his young players in the second half.
Abdel Hamid, in statements to the Zamalek channel, said: “If we had played off the field and won 1-0, we would have said” Bravo “to Ferrera, but the Flambo match was in Egypt, so we must blame the coaching staff. ., we had to win with a great result, 3 or 4 goals, so we can rest before the return on Friday. “
And a Zamalek board member added: “We hired new players by the millions, they should have played the entire Flambo match to harmonize with the team, instead of changing them in the second half and pushing the reassured youngsters on them first.
Abdel Hamid asked the Portuguese coach a question, saying: “As long as you depend on young people, why has the administration asked for the inclusion of deals in the millions?”
In a different context, explained Abdel Hamid, “we managed to hold two matches of Flambo in Egypt, and at the same time we saved 180,000 dollars due to the high costs of travel to Burundi, and we also avoided the fatigue of traveling” .
