⚽ The friendly Egypt Capital Cup will kick off tomorrow with four national teams:Egypt, Tunisia, Croatia, and New Zealand. The competition is slated to end on Tuesday, 26 March.
First game under Hossam Hassan: For the first time the Egyptian national team will be led by the newly-appointed coach Hossam Hassan and his twin brother Ibrahim as the team director when they play against New Zealand tomorrow at 10pm. It will also be the first game ever to be hosted at Egypt Stadium in the new administrative capital. The Pharaohs will miss their team captain Mohamed Salah who requested not to participate in the friendly tournament.
Croatia and Tunisia will go head to head at 10pm on Saturday at Cairo International Stadium. The victors of two games will qualify for the final at the Egypt Stadium at 10pm on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the defeated teams of both fixtures will compete for third place at the same time at Cairo International Stadium. Get your tickets from Tazkarti.
But wait, there is a whole slew of other international friendly matches that await us tonight and this weekend:
- Portugal vs Sweden (Thursday, 9:45pm)
- Italy vs Venezuela (Thursday, 11pm)
- Netherlands vs Scotland (Friday, 9:45pm)
- Spain vs Colombia (Friday, 10:30pm)
- England vs Brazil (Saturday, 9pm)
- France vs Germany (Saturday,10pm)