12:09 AM
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Written by: Hind Awad
In such an atmosphere 30 years ago, the First National Bank Stadium in South Africa hosted the African Super Cup match between the two giants of Egyptian football, Al-Ahly and Zamalek, with Ayman Mansour’s rocket goal against Shobier writing a historic title for the Whites.
The 1994 African Super Cup title against Al-Ahly remains the most precious in the career of Sami El-Shishini, the former Zamalek player and one of Mahmoud El-Gohary’s key players in the match, according to what he told Masrawy in exclusive statements.
Al-Gohary started the match against Al-Ahly with a lineup consisting of Hussein Al-Sayed in goal, Hussein Abdel Latif, Hesham Yakan, Talaat Mansour and Ashraf Youssef in defence, Ismail Youssef, Efat Nassar, Sami Al-Shishini and Khaled Al-Ghandour in midfield, and the attack was led by the duo Emmanuel and Ayman Mansour.
This match had a special character for Sami El-Shishini, because it was against Al-Ahly and the first match against Reda Abdel Aal, after his departure from the Whites and joining the traditional rival, so he wanted to prove that Zamalek is a big club that does not depend on anyone, and he took these reasons as a motivation to achieve the title.
On the other hand, El-Gohary was leading the first match against Al-Ahly, and traveled with his team to South Africa to prepare for the final, 10 days ago. On the other hand, Al-Ahly traveled only three days ago. El-Sheshiny believes that traveling early was in Zamalek’s favor, because they were able to get used to the lack of oxygen. He described the matter by saying: “We traveled early and played before that with the South African Kaizer Chiefs, and we got used to the situation and the atmosphere and prepared with special arrangements and El-Gohary’s tactics, and the oxygen helped us to win.”