After a period of controversy, the Egyptian Football Association has officially terminated the details of his contract with Portuguese Roy Vitoria as the coach of the Pharaohs team to take over the task of technical oversight until 2026.
The Egyptian Football Association has officially announced the end of the contract with Vitoria for the next four years.
Hazem Emam, a board member of the Egyptian federation, took over the selection and contracting process for the coach of the Egyptian national team and insisted that the coach’s contract with the Egyptian team be long enough to allow him to make a real project for Egyptian football. .
Vitoria previously coached Al-Nasr of Saudi Arabia and won the Super League and Super League titles with him.
In Europe, Vitoria has led Benfica twice to the Portuguese League title, twice to the Portuguese Super Cup and twice to the Portuguese Cup, as well as to a title at the level of the Portuguese League Cup.
Vitoria’s last job was Spartak Moscow, which he managed from May to December 2021.
Under the leadership of Vitoria, Spartak played 26 matches, scoring nine victories, drawing six times and suffering 11 defeats.
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Egyptian press reports have confirmed that Roy Vitoria will receive a total of 2.4 million euros annually from the Egyptian national team.
This was due to Ihab Galal’s bad experience with the Egyptian national team, who played 3 matches with the pharaohs, 2 of which were official, and managed to beat Guinea narrowly 1–0 before being defeated by Ethiopia away from home. in a humiliating form 2-0, and then lost with a score of 4. From South Korea unanimously.
Vitoria will not be the first Portuguese coach to lead the Egyptian national team, having been approached in 2021 by Carlos Queiroz, who managed to lead the Pharaohs and finish second in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.
Source: “Agency”