Doha (DPA)
Tomorrow evening, the eyes of the football fans will turn to Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 FIFA World Cup stadiums in Qatar, where it will host the upcoming Super Lusail Cup match between the Egyptian Zamalek and the Saudi Al-Hilal.
The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is responsible for Qatar’s preparations to host the 2022 World Cup, announced on the first of last August that Lusail Stadium will host the “Lusail Super Cup” match between the Saudi League champion and the Egyptian League champion.
Lusail Stadium is the largest of the eight stadiums hosting the 2022 World Cup, with a capacity of more than 80,000 fans, and only 15 kilometers to the north of the Qatari capital, Doha.
The match between Zamalek and Al Hilal is expected to witness great public enthusiasm, as it bears great importance from a sporting point of view, in light of the record of confrontations between Zamalek and Al Hilal, as well as for being a final stage in the preparatory and experimental preparations for all operational operations before the first World Cup in the Arab world and the Middle East.
The winner of tomorrow’s match will receive a prize of one and a half million dollars, while the loser will receive one million dollars.
Tomorrow’s match is the sixth that brings together Zamalek and the Saudi Hilal, and Zamalek has achieved three victories against one victory for Al Hilal, and the two teams tied in one match.
Al-Hilal, coached by the Argentine Ramon Diaz, will be armed in tomorrow’s match with the readiness, as he has played three matches so far in the new season of the Saudi League, and won the three meetings, as it beat Al-Khaleej 2-0 and Al-Fayhaa 2-0, as well as Al-Fateh 1-0 on Sunday. Past.
As for Zamalek, it played its last match on August 30, in the last thirty-fourth stage of the Egyptian Premier League, and lost it to the Eastern Company 1/2.
But Zamalek, coached by the veteran Portuguese Josevaldo Ferreira, is armed with great spirits after he managed to win the Egyptian Premier League title before the end of the rounds, and crowned it for the 14th time in its history.