Football Respect for South Africa

I am not discussing the choice of Pesto Musimani, the extent of his efficiency and his entitlement to become the new technical director of Al-Ahly club.

And anyone who knows football and respects it will not be able, no matter how hard he strives, to confirm the success or failure of Musimani .. And according to the rules of football, there are no guarantees for the success of any coach, whatever his potential, with any club, regardless of the strength of its players..A coach may succeed despite the reasons and justifications for failure, or fail. Despite the factors and causes of success ..

I will only pause in front of a phrase said here and there related to the nationality of Musimani, South Africa, and stresses that hiring a coach from South Africa is an insult and perhaps an insult to Egyptian football.

The owners of that phrase were not talking about Musimani specifically or Al-Ahly, but they meant any coach who came to Egypt from South Africa.

The phrase clearly indicated at times, and at other times timidly, that it is possible for Egypt to bring in European and Latin coaches, but it is very insulting for a coach to come from South Africa.

This is a view that I think needs a calm review .. South Africa is not a footballing country with little value or capabilities and successes as well .. If Egypt was the first African country to participate in the Olympic Games ..

The first African country to participate in the FIFA World Cup finals .. South Africa is the first African country to play football and establish a federation for the game in 1892 ..

It is also the first and only African country so far that has succeeded in hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup .. And when Egypt decided to establish the first African Football Association and start the African Nations Championship ..

South Africa was one of three countries that cooperated with Egypt, along with Sudan and Ethiopia.

But apartheid kept South Africa from participating in the first championship in 1957 because it wanted to be represented by either an all-black or an all-white national team, so it was excluded and then expelled from CAF in 1968.

FIFA tried more than once to persuade South Africa to abandon this distinction without success, until FIFA was forced in 1961 to drop its membership .. South Africa did not return to football again until 1991 after the fall of the apartheid regime, to return to FIFA again and win the Nations Cup after five years. ..

This is not a guarantee of Musimani's success but a call for some footballing respect for South Africa.

* Quoted from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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