The Football Federation refuses to treat North African players as locals because of the teams

The Football Association's board of directors, led by Hany Abu Reda, rejected the proposal to treat North African players as locals and give the Premier League the opportunity to join them in the upcoming transfer period. winter, on recommendation of national team coaches.

The North African Union proposed to treat North African players as locals in all EU countries, namely Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Mauritania during the next winter transfer period, which the Gabonese officials have found difficult to implement in Egypt during the current period. On the national teams, with the use of clubs at the time more than a North African player in the case of implementing this decision, so much that the first team has long suffered from the absence of distinguished strikers, in light of the use of powerful clubs in the Egyptian league with foreign players like Ahli, who depends West Waleed Azaro pain, Zamalek, who depends on the Congolese player Kasongo, and it is the same for Ismaili, Pyramids, Egypt and Samouha.

Officials agreed to postpone the postponement of the implementation of the proposal to treat players from North Africa as locals for next season and to study the feasibility, and to determine if this would benefit Egyptian football and teams. .