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- What have you benefited from this training in the - Tell us a summary of your experience with the
Extramadura team? And if you have the chance to performance analysis and life insurance
repeat this experience, will you repeat it or reject company.
it? At first the company approached people in
I benefited a lot from this course especially September 2019, I applied as a performance
since it brought two of the greatest speakers of analyst, but when they saw my previous writing
the African Union to that time. If time returns, I experiences, they made me write on the site for
will not refuse it, on the contrary, I will take it four months. And it was, then I asked to work in
again because it is the latter that opened the way performance analysis because of the experiences
for me in this field, where I worked in different it would bring me in my field as a coach. And it
academies was; this was where I figured out how to do
to train young people. I also obtained two training statistics and match reports, which helped me a
diplomas from the Swiss Institute of Youth Sport in lot in my thinking about match analysis. A month
2018. before leaving them, I decided to embark on
writing in English, especially regarding the idea of
- Do you think there is an organization in Egypt or performance analysis, and it was, because I was
in the Arab world that offers certificates at the working for the Spanish company “Total Football
same level as the Swiss Sports Institute? Analysis” where they analyze every league and all
I don't think so, because of the scarcity of or most of the sports.
scientific material.
- What do you think of performance analysts in
- In your opinion, what is the difference between Egypt?
the field of training in Egypt and abroad? There aren't many in Egypt, and most of them
The difference is mediation which has no place are former football players who have experience
abroad, as they support those who have the in this job. What usually happens is a description
necessary abilities and provide them with
employment opportunities, and this is what I of the match rather than its analysis. For
noticed when working with the Spaniards because example, Ahmed Hossam Mido who is considered
they do not care as much about the level of the one of the best analysts, and we find that the
individual as they care about his passion degree. In ideas of most of the rest are somewhat
2018 I also worked as an Arabic language freelance superficial because they care about the form of
writer on the Goal site and started working as a the team, unlike outsiders who care about the
performance analyst with a fourth-class team small details, which we don't find in Egyptian
born in 1999. performance analysts.

- What was added to you while working at Goal? - Which team in Egypt who has players capable of
It added a lot to me, especially since having a dramatically changing the performance of the
big name like this site’s in your CV adds a lot to it, Egyptian League and raising its level?
in addition, it taught me a lot and added to me The Pyramids team has made a big leap in the
experience and knowledge. Towards the end of field of football in addition to the Wadi Degla
2018 and until July 2019 I stopped working in this team, which has a strong youth sector and we
field until I returned after that and started also find the Enppi team, al mokaweloon al arabe
working in the performance analysis company and and Al Ittihad Alexandria, but for that we can
life coverage as a publisher in a site they owned improve this area, we must pay more attention to
until I could work there as a performance analyst the scientific aspect and move away from the
alongside my main job and left it last April due to superficial thinking.
the Corona epidemic.

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