Wael Gomaa: “Salah is an addition to the 2022 World Cup”

Wael Gomaa, Egypt's former international defense and former player at Al-Masry FC, confirmed that he dreamed of participating in the World Cup throughout his career, full of glory and records, but that he could not achieve. The Egyptian soccer star and current representative of the Organization and Legacy Committee, responsible for managing the projects of the world, wait to Egypt participate in the next 2022 World Cup in Qatar, since it could be a good opportunity to recover the inappropriate image that the Egyptian team left in the World Cup 2018 in Russia.

Gomaa He spoke on different topics while participating in a live of Generación Amazing, a solidarity development platform in soccer. Qatar 2022, and where he was AS Arabia.

The Egyptian mentioned that he achieved many wins throughout his football career (30 championships), he won the CAF Champions League six times the same at the level of the CAF Super Cup, which is a record, in addition to winning the African Cup of soccer three consecutive times, which is a difficult victory for other teams to achieve. As well as locally the Egyptian soccer rock, as the fans of the Ahly Fc, a surname that he has been proud of so far, achieved many victories with the Ahly.

“So far it is early to evaluate the performance of the national team, as he played two games under the leadership of coach Hossam Al-Badry, so there are many challenges that await Al-Badry and the players, mainly that the image he left Egypt's selection during the 2018 World Cup in Russia was inappropriate or does not satisfy the ambitions of the Egyptian fans, therefore, it is very important to strive with the aim of changing that impression and showing a strong face, especially since most of the current players they are the same ones that participated in the last World Cup “, said Gomaa in the direct.

Salah needs auxiliary elements in the selection

When asked about the role of Mohamed Salah to help Egypt in the 2022 World Cup, the rock commented: “Soccer is a collective game, Salah will not play alone in the Qatar World Cup, there will have to be someone else to help him “. And he added: “Because of its popularity Salah will not be an addition to the Egyptian national team only, but to the 2022 World Cup, especially he is a qualified professional worldwide, which we could see at the last Club World Cup last year, due to the interaction of the fans with Mohamed Salah, having helped Liverpool to win the title, he is a charming footballer but according to the language of soccer (he will not be able to lead the national team to victory alone, even if he was the best player in the world) ”.

Qatar will dazzle everyone in 2022

Regarding organizing 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the disposition of the Qatar national team Gomaa stated: “Given the state of Qatar's preparations for the 2022 World Cup, they are at the highest levels, since Qatar aims to dazzle everyone by providing impressive stadiums. World Cup that will be an honor for all Arabs. ” Regarding the Qatar team that qualified as the hero team after winning the Asian Cup last year in the Emirates, he said: “It also had its distinctive shape in the Copa América last year, as well as homogeneity among the players. and his young age, who of course will try very hard to present their national team with a good image in their homeland “.

El-Gohary, Shehata and Jose

About the coaches that affected Gomaa in his football career, he said: “At the national team level, because both of Mahmoud El-Gohary and Hassan Shehata They helped me a lot to improve my performance and achieve brilliance, with the Ahly FC Manuel Jose He has a great favor to me as well as to the rest of the players of this generation for having trained under his leadership. ”

Gomaa He concluded his participation by praising the role of Generación Amazing, affiliated with the Organization and Legacy Committee, in spreading the concepts and values ​​that help minor athletes to fulfill their role by following principles such as sportsmanship, not harming rivals, and believing in the value of sport in the lives of individuals, the Egyptian showed his joy by having participated in an Amazing Generation Live.