October 18, 2026
Brighton’s English team playmaker, the young man Younes Ibrahim, has entered the circle of attention of the Egyptian national team’s technical staff, led by technical director Hossam Hassan, in preparation for a possible inclusion during the next camp in November.
An official source in the “Pharaohs” team told Agence France-Presse that Ibrahim, who is 18 years old and was born in Australia, attracted strong attention after his promotion to the first team for Brighton this season, and his official participation against Kano Zalgiris of Lithuania in the “Conference League” competition, where he succeeded in scoring a goal during the 4-0 victory last Thursday.
The player holds four nationalities (Egyptian, Moroccan, English, and Australian), which gives him the right to represent the various national teams, which prompted the Egyptian Football Association, represented by the Committee of Professionals of Egyptian Origins, to quickly address the player. The source indicated that Younis Ibrahim is included in Hossam Hassan’s accounts for the November camp, if the Football Association completes the necessary legal procedures, similar to the experience of Haitham Hassan, who joined the “Pharaohs” last March and participated in the World Cup, achieving distinguished levels.
In the same context, the source confirmed that Hossam Hassan does not have any non-technical reservations about including any player in the next camp, in which the team is preparing to face Malawi in Cairo and Lilingwe on November 11 and 15, within the third and fourth rounds of the 2027 African Cup of Nations qualifiers scheduled to be held in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, stressing that “there is no crisis with any player at the present time.”
This trend comes in light of the technical staff’s efforts to turn the page on the crises that marred the previous camp, which witnessed tensions related to statements by the coach regarding Al-Ahly goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shenawy, in addition to the departure of both Mohamed Salah and Mohamed Abdel Moneim from the team’s camp for reasons related to playing on artificial turf. The source confirmed that Hossam Hassan completely closed the door to disputes, and the door became open to all players based only on the evaluation of their technical condition.
It is noteworthy that the Egyptian national team leads the second group in the 2027 African Cup of Nations qualifiers with 4 points, collected from a goalless draw with Angola and a great 5-0 victory over South Sudan.
