Cor that would be exciting.
It must have past me by.
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Congratulations to Adam El-Abd
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It must have past me by.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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They seem to have them whenever they feel like it TBH.
The Large One
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turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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any pictures of big adam strutting his stuff in his egypt kit?
From that video, it appears as though somebody was stretchered off after an El-Abd cruncher
Gullys Cats
Sausage by the sea!!!
Well done mr brighton
I just stuck the two arabic comments into google translate... the first came out as nonsense, but the second just said 'Monster'!!!
Ninja Elephant
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- Feb 16, 2009
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Hello from Egypt
Hello there,
I'm Egyptian and I came accross this thread while doing a Google search for El-Abd, and I was surprised to see the level of enthusiasm here and how some people are saying they'll start following the Egyptian team! I've actually been following Brighton's results this season, hoping that they could compete for promotion so that we would have another Egyptian player in the EPL. But I hadn't seen El-Abd play at all before our friendly with Cameroon. I don't think he faced a good enough attack from Cameroon (which was the local-based team not the first team) for people here to be able to judge him from this match but I think he was fine with the little he had to do.
One thing a commentor was saying was that he didn't pass forwards from the back during this match, and mostly played long balls or balls back to the keeper. Well it's not the most important thing for a defender, but is he a good passer at the club?
By the way, the Cameroon game was a really poor game from us for a few reasons, one of them is that the team was missing 5 important players. Three of them will be there for tomorrow's match against Togo. Also, Egyptian players are pretty moody and they tend to not give their best against weak teams. Togo's team will be their first team so it will hopefully be a better match.
Finally, I hate to disappoint anyone, but Bradley (our coach) has been calling up a big number of players these past months to look at them, and a few have not been called back, so there's no guarantee that Adam will have a place in the team but I think he has a decent chance to at least be in the 18.
Hello there,
I'm Egyptian and I came accross this thread while doing a Google search for El-Abd, and I was surprised to see the level of enthusiasm here and how some people are saying they'll start following the Egyptian team! I've actually been following Brighton's results this season, hoping that they could compete for promotion so that we would have another Egyptian player in the EPL. But I hadn't seen El-Abd play at all before our friendly with Cameroon. I don't think he faced a good enough attack from Cameroon (which was the local-based team not the first team) for people here to be able to judge him from this match but I think he was fine with the little he had to do.
One thing a commentor was saying was that he didn't pass forwards from the back during this match, and mostly played long balls or balls back to the keeper. Well it's not the most important thing for a defender, but is he a good passer at the club?
By the way, the Cameroon game was a really poor game from us for a few reasons, one of them is that the team was missing 5 important players. Three of them will be there for tomorrow's match against Togo. Also, Egyptian players are pretty moody and they tend to not give their best against weak teams. Togo's team will be their first team so it will hopefully be a better match.
Finally, I hate to disappoint anyone, but Bradley (our coach) has been calling up a big number of players these past months to look at them, and a few have not been called back, so there's no guarantee that Adam will have a place in the team but I think he has a decent chance to at least be in the 18.
Silent Bob
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- Dec 6, 2004
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Hi Andrew, interesting to hear some feedback on El-Abd from an Egyptian perspective. It's a shame he didn't get to play against Eto'o!
We are a team that always wants to play out from the back, El-Abd is not the most naturally gifted player when it comes to that side of the game but that is something he does every week. Passing back to the keeper is not a surprise, it's usually that or a short pass to another centreback (who is a better passing player) or to a midfielder coming deep to get the ball. Definitely not playing long balls. So maybe that is down to nerves, or coaches intruction (USA were quite a direct team under Bradley).
No I don't think Bradley likes long balls, but anyway it was just two times El-Abd did that as far as I remember and he was under slight pressure (but could still have passed).
He mostly plays centre back for Brighton right? Cause I heard something about right back or left back...
He mostly plays centre back for Brighton right? Cause I heard something about right back or left back...
Silent Bob
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He's played both fullback positions many times in the past, and even holding midfield a few times years ago, but he is most definitely a centreback. That's the only position he's looked good at Championship level.
Rodney Thomas
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Do we know what time the Togo game is today and when the squad/team is announced?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
According to this streaming site, ko is 20.00 GMT which will be 9pm BST.
Egypt vs Togo Live Stream | Highlights 2012
Thunder Bolt
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Rodney Thomas
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Fantastic. I'll have to have a watch of that tonight!
Haha, monster is used positively in Arabic slang, like in the sense of a big tough guy (in a good way).
Don't worry, the same here.
Rodney Thomas
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Cheers..