The Egyptian Football Association has awarded Portuguese coach Roy Vitoria a four-year contract to coach its first team, replacing Ehab Galal Al-Maqal from his position, according to what was announced at dawn on Tuesday in a statement.
“The Egyptian Football Association has reached a final agreement with the Portuguese Roy Vitoria, who will lead the first team of Egypt for the next 4 years,” the federation wrote on its social media accounts, while Egyptian press reports indicated that he would receive an annual salary. in the amount of 2.4. million euros.
Jalal was sacked from his post on 16 June after losing 2-0 to Ethiopia in the second round of the upcoming African Cup of Nations qualifiers, almost two months after he took charge of replacing Carlos Queiroz, who led Egypt to the Cup final. African nations. Nations, where he lost to Senegal in February and then failed to qualify for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, also at the hands of Senegal.
Rui Carlos Piño da Vitoria, 52, has had many successes with Benfica and led them to the league title in the 2016 and 2017 seasons, the 2017 National Cup, the 2016 League Cup and the 2016 and 2017 Super Cup.
Vitoria started his career as a player at underwater levels in Portugal, and after retiring he began a coaching career at Villafrancoens, then in 2004 he moved to coach the youth team at Benfica and worked with him for two years, then Fatima for four years. seasons to and from Passos de Ferreira in 2011 before moving to Vitoria Guimarães between 2011 and 2015.
In 2015, the highlight was that he stayed at Benfica for three and a half years.
In January 2019, he took over the technical management of the Saudi team Al-Nasr and led them to the league title and the Super Cup in 2019, as well as to the semi-finals of the 2020 AFC Champions League when they lost to Persepolis of Iran on penalties.
After a string of negative results, Roy Vitoria left Al-Nasr at the end of 2020 before taking charge of Russia’s Spartak at the start of last season, but left after six months.
