Sunday 21/Sep/2025 – 06:28 PM
Belgian Yannick Ferrera, coach of the first football team in the club ZamalekThe importance of the next El Gouna match in the team’s career in the Egyptian Premier League competition.
Yannick Ferrera’s comments
Ferrera said at the press conference before the match: All our focus at the present time is on the El Gouna match, and I am able to deal with absences, whether Mahmoud Hamdi Al -Wensh, Mahmoud Bentaej or Juan Paisira.
He added: Zamalek players are in the required formation, and I have a team that has the ability to compensate for absences and players who have the ability to participate.
He continued: We are working to prepare the players physically, and they undergo a physical and mental hospitalization process in light of the pressure of the matches and the limited time between each match and another.
He praised the defensive system of Zamalek, stressing that teamwork is behind maintaining the cleanliness of the net in more than one match, and the defensive development is due to teamwork and not the defense line and the goalkeeper only, and I construct all the elements of the system that makes defensive performance this ferocity.
The coach refused to link El Gouna match with the top match after the next against Al -Ahly, adding: We have to think about each match separately, which is the technical staff’s policy since the beginning and end of the season.
He continued: If I feel that any player who thinks about the summit match from now will not be in my accounts, and our focus in the El Gouna match now or others.
He concluded: Zamalek fans make me enjoy what they offer, and there are large numbers attending in all matches, and we feel grateful, and we must thank them for providing our best in all matches and to perform what we have at all our energy.
The first football team of Zamalek Club is preparing to face El Gouna scheduled for next Tuesday at the Cairo International Stadium in the framework of the matches of the eighth round of the Premier League competition.