Egypt Vs Brazil ...Can the Egyptians make the surprise??

"We're expecting a very hard match, a lot harder than a lot of people are expecting back in Brazil. Most of the Egyptian players aren't that well known around the world, but one thing's for sure; you don't win two consecutive continental championships just by chance. You need a lot of quality to do that." Brazil coach Dunga
"Egypt cannot afford to fear Brazil in our opener because if we enter the first match with such a feeling, we will show the same fear against the other teams." Egypt coach Hassan Shehata

By these few words,both coaches expressed their feelings about the important coming match..
OK,..quite apart from their contrasting pedigrees, Brazil and Egypt go into the FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009 in very different frames of mind. Boasting a full-strength squad and buoyed by a recent return to form, the South American giants are brimming with confidence. The Egyptians, meanwhile, find themselves at the bottom of their South Africa 2010 qualifying group and will have to compensate for the loss of star striker Amr Zaki, who pulled up with an injury only a few days ago.
Worryingly for the rest of the field, Brazil seem to be peaking at just the right time to defend the title they won at Germany 2005. Just days before jetting off to South Africa, Dunga's side earned an historic 4-0 FIFA World Cup™ qualifying win over Uruguay at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, following that up with a crucial 2-1 home defeat of Paraguay. Those back-to-back wins took Kaka and Co to the top of the table in the South American Zone and helped Dunga earn the kind of praise that has largely eluded him in nearly three years in charge as coach

The interesting here, is that the Monday's match at the Free State Stadium will be the first time the two sides have met in an official tournament. Their four previous meetings were all friendlies played on Egyptian soil, the last of them in 1963, when a Quarentinha goal gave Brazil a 1-0 win. Three years earlier A Seleção played the Pharaohs three times in a one-week tour of Egypt, chalking up comfortable 5-0, 3-1 and 3-0 victories. In the first of those games legendary right winger Garrincha scored the first of his 12 goals in the green-and-yellow jersey..
Anyway,...the question now..

5 comments:

Mohamed said...

all the predictions for brazil for sure,..but who knows,..
nothing imposible

Anonymous said...

sure the winner will be brazil.

Anonymous said...

we made a surprise but hard luck :D

Mohamed said...

yes..that is so bad hard luck and sounds unfair..:(

Anonymous said...

yes, egyptians made a surprise and actually they would deserve winning

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