South African newspapers celebrate Musimani’s achievements: Al-Ahly leads to new haircut

South African newspapers celebrated Al-Ahly’s victory and crowned the treble under the leadership of Pitso Musimani, the technical director of the Al-Ahly club, which won the League, the Egyptian Cup and the Champions League African in one season for the second time in its history.

Musimani managed to win the Egyptian Cup with Al-Ahly, and before that the African Champions League, and was the head of technical staff in the rest of the league matches after the departure of former Swiss coach René Fyler.

The “kickoff” newspaper referred to the match between Al-Ahly and the vanguard of the army under the title “Pizzo leads Al-Ahly to a historic trilogy”.

While the newspaper “soccerladuma” reported on Musimani’s coronation, under the headline “Pizzo wins another cup with Al-Ahly”.

Al-Ahly had a long trip to the Egyptian Cup before crowning the championship by beating Al-Jaish, in the match that brought the two teams together last night, Saturday, at the Burj Al-Arab stadium with penalties on goal, to win the red giant’s cup championship for the 37th time in its history..

Al-Ahly played 5 games, won 4 games and settled for a one-game draw, and beat Beni Suef, Al-Tarsana, Abu Qir and Al-Ittihad of Alexandria, before equalizing on Saturday evening with Al-Talaa Al-Jaysh and decide the title by penalty shootout..

The Egyptian Cup competitions saw the participation of 36 players from the Al-Ahly team, led by Hussein Al-Shahat, who has appeared in all of the team’s matches at the championship this season, with 5 matches, and the second place went to Yasser Ibrahim, Mohamed Magdy Afsha and Hamdi Fathy with 4 matches, then Aliou Diang, Ayman Ashraf and Geraldo. Al-Shennawi, Muhammad Hani, Kahraba, Mahmoud Wahid and Marwan Mohsen in three matches.

Al-Ahly’s offensive line has scored 10 goals by two goals in one game, scoring in all of their league games, the team’s top scorer in the cup, Walid Suleiman, Walid Azaro and Junior Ajay with two goals, while that Muhammad Magdi Afsha, Mahmoud Kahraba, Hamdi Fathy and Ahmed Al-Sheikh managed to score a goal. Al-Ahly scored 5 goals per game, and the team couldn’t come out with a clean sheet in every round of the tournament.