Egyptian national team manager Bob Bradley has announced the Pharaohs primarily squad for June's World Cup qualifiers. They are starting a closed camp in El-Defaa El-Gawi stadium Wednesday to finalise their preparations for the anticipated games, before flying 5 June. The holders of three successive African Cup of Nations Cups, 2006 and 2008 and 2010, are playing Botswana friendly in Cairo 4 June, five days before Zimbabwe clash in 2014 World Cup Qualifiers. They are leading Group G of the African qualifiers, five points clear of second-placed Guinea, while Mozambique lie third with two points, one ahead of bottom side Zimbabwe. Bidding for their first ticket to the football most prestigious tournament since 1990, Egypt will face Zimbabwe and Mozambique in two away games on 9 and 16 June respectively. The squad: Goalkeepers:Abdel-Wahed El-Sayed, Ahmed El-Shennawy (Zamalek) and Sherif Ekrami (Ahly) Defenders: Ahmed Fathi, Wael Gomaa, Ahmed Shedid Qenawi, Saad Samir (Ahly), Mahmoud Fathallah, Mohamed Abdel-Shafi, Omar Gaber (Zamalek), Ahmed Elmohamady, Ali Ghazal (C.D. Nacional), (Sunderland) and Ahmed Hegazy (Fiorentina) Midfielders: Hossam Ashour, Abdullah El-Said, Mohamed Abou-Treika (Ahly), Ibrahim Salah, Hazem Emam, Ahmed Eid Abdel-Malek, Mohamed Ibrahim, Nour El-Said (Zamalek), Amr Soulaya (Ismaily), Tareq Hamed, Ahmed Hamoudy (Smouha), Ayman Hefny (El-Geish), Mohamed El-Nenny (Basel FC) Strikers: Ahmed Hassan Mekky (Haras El-Hodoud), Ahmed Gafar (Zamalek), Mohamed salah (Basel) and Ahmed Temsah (Dhofar) (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at@AO Sportsand on Facebook atAhramOnlineSports) http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/72544.aspx
