The official account of the Egyptian national team published pictures of the national team’s stars who participated in the African qualifiers for the World Cup, including Mohamed Salah, Omar Marmoush, Emam Ashour, Hamdi Fathi, and Mohamed Abdel Moneim.

The Egyptian national team stated that these stars, although they will not participate in the national team’s match on Sunday against the Guinea-Bissau national team, due to the national team’s technical director granting them a rest after officially qualifying for the World Cup, they will participate in the celebrations on the occasion of the qualification.

Mohamed Salah will miss the match between Egypt and Guinea Bissau, after ensuring qualification to the World Cup, after beating Djibouti 3-0 in the last round of qualifiers, from which Mohamed Salah scored two goals.

All the mentioned players are absent for various reasons, most notably the injuries of Omar Marmoush, Mohamed Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Shehata, and Dunga, in addition to the suspension of Hamdi Fathi and Marawan Attia due to the cards, while Imam Ashour is absent due to his suffering from the A virus.

Egypt’s qualification to the 2026 World Cup is a historic event, as the Pharaohs return to the World Cup after an 8-year absence from Russia 2018, and it will be the fourth in their history after Italy 1934, Italy 1990, and Russia 2018, where they were eliminated from the group stage each time.

In the 2026 African qualifiers, which were held in 9 groups of 6 teams each, Egypt secured qualification as the winner of the first group against Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, with 7 wins and 2 draws, and Salah scored 6 goals as the star of the attack.

Source: RT