The Egyptian Olympic team is preparing on Monday, August 5, to face its French counterpart in the semi-finals of the football competition within the Paris 2024 Olympics, in a match that will be held at the “Groupama Stadium” in the city of Lyon.
The match of the national team will be heldPharaohs“Al-Olympi vs. “Les Bleus” at 22:00 Mecca and Doha time, a match that is expected to attract the attention of many Arab viewers who hope to see the country of “Egypt” achieve a historic accomplishment by qualifying for the Olympic final.
The Egyptian team qualified for the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics after a great performance in the group stage, topping its third group with 7 points, leaving behind the great Spanish team in second place. The “Pharaohs” were able to overcome the Paraguayan team in the quarter-finals, to book a place in the golden square for themselves.
Egypt’s Olympic team faces the madmen in the Paris 2024 Olympics
The Egyptian Olympic team is expected to face the French team, or the “crazy” team, in the semi-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympics, according to its coach, Thierry Henry, who made statements reported by the website “Foot marketIn which he revealed some of the secrets of the “Roosters'” dressing rooms, and described his players as crazy.
“From the beginning, I called the players crazy. Every time I looked at them, I said to myself, ‘They are crazy.’ I saw them in pain in some training sessions, they would get up and start working again, and that’s when I said to myself, ‘These guys are crazy.'”
The French coach revealed some of the backstage details inside the French Olympic team: “There is also their way of fooling around, they really have a sense of humor, this team lives well, the players joke and laugh everywhere, they annoy me too, then we go back to seriousness and work, we are here to work and not to laugh.”
Henry stressed that his team wants to beat Egypt in the semi-finals and advance to the final and win the Olympic gold medal, when he said: “In order to make history, we will have to beat Egypt to secure at least the silver medal, and then we will play to win the gold medal.”
Returning to the Egyptian Olympic team, it will have a favorable opportunity against France to reach the final. Paris Olympics 2024, and to compensate for his disappointment twice, when he failed to pass the semi-final threshold in the Amsterdam 1928 and Tokyo 2024 tournaments.
