Some of the El Hilal Sports Club El Obeid players upon arrival at Kigali International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Photo-Rwanda Magazine.
Sudanese representatives El Hilal Sports Club El Obeid arrived in Rwanda’s capital Kigali Wednesday afternoon ahead of the return leg clash of the CAF Confederations Cup slated for Saturday at Stade Huye.
A delegation composed of 34 members arrived in the country at 15:10 aboard Ethiopian Airways. Upon arrival, they were escorted to Huye District where they will be residing at Galileo Hotel until they return back to Sudan on Christmas Eve.
The team managed by former Gor Mahia Coach British Francis Elliott Nuttall will hold two training sessions as mandated by CAF at Stade Huye today afternoon and Friday afternoon ahead of Saturday’s match.
Both Mukura VS and El Hilal Sports Club El Obeid played a goalless draw in the first leg played last week in Sudan.
Hosts Mukura VS need to win the home leg to be assured a chance of progressing to the next and final round which will grant passage to the lucrative group stages.
Mukura VS head coach Christian Francis Haringingo told local media this week, “Football is an unpredictable game but we need to forget what happened in the first leg and prepare for the return leg because we want to have a very good game in Huye. There is no doubt we are in a good situation of reaching in next stage,” he said.
Mukura VS secured a slot in the round of 32 after beating South Africa’s Free State Stars 1-0 in the return-leg clash of the preliminary.
They returned to the competition after an 18-year hiatus, the first time since 2000 when they got eliminated from the first round by Ethiopia’s Awassa City 2-1 on aggregate score.
Al Hilal Elobied Delegation
Squad Players: Zakaria Hayder Mohamed Abu Elgasim, Omer Suliman Koko Dafalla,
Bakri Bashir Bakri Makki, Abdelrazig Yagoub Omer Taha, Omer Mahmoud Kosti Ali,
Mohamed Abbas Namir Gumaa, Mohamed Taher Osman Mohamed, Maaz Abdelrhim Gesalla, Ali Khalafalla Omer, Khalid Yahya Yusif Hassan, Elhame Ahmed Yousif Rabeh, Anwer Sadat Wahab, Awadelkarim Kafi Geidom, Mudather Eltaib Ibrahim, Mohamed Musa Idris Teya, Yuousif Ali Mohamed Ibrahim, Ramadan Elfaki Kabo Suliman, Moaiad Abdeen Maki Nafie, Mofadel Mohamed Hassan, Amin Ibrahim Elmani Angilo, Abd Elrahman Esihag Hassan, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Alnour and Ahmed Abeelazim Mohamed Nour.
Staff: Tarig Atta Salih Mohamed (Head of delegation), Mudather Sbeel Mahdi (Sudan Football Association), Hussein Sayed Abdalla Ali (Official), El Fdadil Hussin Mohamed Hussin (Team Manager), Francis Elliott Nuttall (Head Coach), Khaled Mohamed Bakheet Ahmed (Assistant Coach), Abo Bakr Mohamed Ali Ahmed (Goal Keeper Coach), Eisa Ali Haroun Mohamed (Fitness Coach), Wadah Shukri Baarakat Ibrahim (Doctor), Guta Regassa Abebe (Physiotherapist) and Omer Mohammed Rezig Abdalla (Kit boy).
