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Nejmeh Club will play tomorrow his first match in
the qualifications of Group Four for the Arab Clubs'
Championship where the team will meet Al Jaish (Syria) and Al
Faisaly (Jordan) will play against Al Aqsa (Palestine).
Nejmeh will play his second match next Friday on June 23 and the
final match will be against Al Faisaly on Sunday.
The team started his trainings in Amman after the arrival of his
delegation and lodging at "Arena Space". The delegation
included: Fouad Sinnou (president), Ahmed Koubrousli and Samir
El Adou (managers), Abd Al Aziz Abd el Shafi (Coach), Hassan
Shatila (trainer), Walid Shatila (Goalkeepers' trainer), Mazen
Al Ahmediya (Physiotherapist), Hassan Itani (Equipments'
principal) and the players are:
Goalkeepers: Wahid Fatal, Abdou Tafeh and Haitham Bader.
Defenders: Abbas Shahrour, Mohammad Ibrahim,
Mahmoud Karnib, Sunday Oko (Nigeria), Husein Daher, Hasan El
Huseini and Zein Al Abideen Saed.
Midfielders: Yihya Hashem, Mousa Hujeij, Abbas
Atwi, Mohammad Halawi, Ahmed Kubeisi and Khaled Hamie.
Attackers: Mohammad Ghaddar, Jilberto Dos Santos,
Mahmoud Majid (Iraq), Errol Macferlain (Trinidad & Tobago) and
Said Abboushi.
In that context, the Egyptian coach for Nejmeh
Abd El Aziz Abd El Shafi stated that "the chances for
qualification are equal for all four teams and the competition
will be too close". El Shafi (52 years old) added in his
statement for AFP "the chances of Nejmeh, Al Faisaly, Al Jaish
and Al Aqsa are equal but only two teams will qualify and there
lies the competition."
He added "Nejmeh didn't use to play 3 consecutive matches in 5
days, and the players are tired after a long season which will
be continued with the Golden Finals and the Semi Finals with
home and away matches."
He noted, "A few changes happened in the Nejmeh
since I left the team two seasons ago when the team missed Abbas
Atwi and Husein Daher because they had to do their Military
Service". He continued "The time has come now to give the chance
for young players like Mohammad Ghaddar, Haitham Atwi and Ali
Nasr El Deen to play with the first team and it was the same
policy I used to follow when I first came to Nejmeh".
The following is the 4th Group Qualifications'
matches:
Wednesday May 21, 2003: Nejmeh vs. Al Jaish and
Al Faisaly vs. Al Aqsa.
Friday May 23, 2003: Nejmeh vs. Al Aqsa and Al Faisaly vs. Al
Jaish.
Sunday May 25, 2003: Al Jasih vs. Al Aqsa and Nejmeh vs. Al
Faisaly.
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