EFA decided to appoint Hassan Shehata as a replacement for Marco Tardelli for the end of the current year.

The Egyptian Football Association chief executive Mr. Essam Abd El Moneam has announced that Hassan Shehata will be the new national team coach for the next couple of months until the new EFA is announced by the end of the year.

It looked like the Egyptian national team was going to complete the current year without having a new manager, however, the EFA decided to appoint Shehata so he can take charge of the NT till the new EFA take charge and appoint a new manager.

It is worth mentioning that Tardelli was fired at the beginning of this month after he lost to Libya in Egypt's last World Cup qualifying match 2-1.

Many criticized Tardelli for spending much of his time in Italy instead of Egypt and for e lacking the ability to deal the team stars like Mido and Hossam Hassan.

Hassan Shehata was an ex-Zamalek player, he won the last youth African Cup of Nations with the U-20 squad in Burkina Faso plus he helped his current club Arab Contractors to win last year's Egyptian Cup and the Egyptian Super cup as well.

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