VIDEO SHOWS: TRAINING SESSIONS AND PRESS CONFERENCES BEFORE THE AFCON GROUP MATCH BETWEEN EGYPT AND SOUTH AFRICA RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: AGADIR, MOROCCO (DECEMBER 25, 2025) (STATS PERFORM – Access all) 1. SOUTH AFRICA HEAD COACH, HUGO BROOS, ARRIVING AT PRESS CONFERENCE 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOUTH AFRICA HEAD COACH, HUGO BROOS, SAYING: “We are not focused on anyone. For us the most important thing is the team. It should be a big mistake from our side to focus on one player over another on the Egyptian team. We all know how good (Mohamed) Salah is. We all know how good (Omar) Marmoush is. We all know how good Trezeguet is and other players. So it is such a good team. Why should we focus on one player? We have to be prepared to beat the team and not to make maybe, to see that Salah doesn’t play good or that Marmoush doesn’t play good. No, for us, it's the team that is important and we don't really focus on one or another player.” 3. TOURNAMENT PROMO 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOUTH AFRICA HEAD COACH, HUGO BROOS, SAYING: “Surely there are some precautions we have to take it. It's not a team like Zimbabwe. It's not a team like Angola. This is a team of a level higher. But at the other way we don't have to forget our qualities. We don't have to forget the way we played in the past. And that's what we have to do tomorrow also. We have to put Egypt in difficulties and you can only do that when you use your qualities.” 5. VARIOUS OF FORWARD, LYLE FOSTER, PASSING BALL AROUND WITH TEAMMATES 6. GOALKEEPER, RONWEN WILLIAMS, STRETCHING 7. (SOUNDBITE) (French) SOUTH AFRICA HEAD COACH, HUGO BROOS, SAYING: “We obviously didn’t come here to just go home after the group stage. That wasn’t the goal two years ago either. But sometimes you need some luck on your side too. When you compare with the AFCON two years ago, lots of big countries went home early, including Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Tunisia… I don’t think they’ll make the same mistake this time. Normally, after the group stage, all the big countries are there. So every match will be very difficult. But our goal, our ambition is to match what we achieved two years ago and get at least a bronze medal. But once again, that’s just an ambition. We’ll see if we can achieve that.” 8. BROOS TALKING TO ASSISTANT COACH AS PLAYERS JOG PAST 9. PLAYERS JOGGING 10. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS STRETCHING 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOUTH AFRICA FORWARD, LYLE FOSTER, SAYING: “Yeah, first of all, like you say, sometimes it can be human nature for complacency to slip in, but I think it's up to us obviously, to drive our own standards and to put the expectations where they've been for the last year or more than the last year. It's up to us to obviously keep that streak going and I think it's a big motivation as well for us and something that we're really proud of. So, obviously we go into the game not thinking about previous results, we go into the game focusing on the game and, yeah, hopefully we can get a favoured result. And yeah, I believe in the team. We're fully confident and I believe we can keep on going. Yeah.” 12. PLAYERS RUNNING PASS AND MOVE DRILL 13. VARIOUS OF BROOS WALKING AS PLAYERS RUN DRILL 14. PLAYERS WARMING UP 15. FOSTER 16. BROOS WATCHING OVER TRAINING 17. EGYPTIAN NATIONAL TEAM COACH, HOSSAM HASSAN, AND WINGER, TREZEGUET, WALKING INTO PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM 18. PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS 19. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPTIAN NATIONAL TEAM COACH HOSSAM HASSAN, SAYING: "We value and respect them (South Africa), but we have the ambition, God willing, to achieve a positive result. All the players are ready, and we've worked on all the different scenarios regarding the South African national team. We've grown accustomed to difficult matches, and the players are taking into account that the game will be tough. God willing, we will achieve a positive result." 20. HASSAN PASSING BALL AROUND WITH MEMBERS OF COACHING STAFF 21. PLAYERS WARMING UP 22. VARIOUS OF SALAH WARMING UP 23. PLAYERS RUNNING WARM-UP DRILL 24. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPT WINGER, TREZEGUET, SAYING: "Of course, the South Africa match will be very important for us in the group stage. God willing, we can win and secure qualification early. South Africa is a very respectable team, and we’ve studied them well recently. Captain Hossam and the technical staff have been working with us for the last two days immediately following the previous match. God willing, we are ready to make the Egyptian people happy with a win and by qualifying." 25. MARMOUSH PASSING BALL BACK AND FORTH WITH TEAMMATES 26. VARIOUS OF SALAH AND TREZEGUET PASSING BALL TOGETHER 27. HASSAN PARTICIPATING IN RONDO DRILL 28. WIDE OF PLAYERS RUNNING RONDO DRILLS 29. MARMOUSH PARTICIPATING IN RONDO 30. SALAH TALKING TO HASSAN 31. GOALKEEPERS TRAINING 32. PLAYERS IN HUDDLE 33. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPTIAN NATIONAL TEAM COACH HOSSAM HASSAN, SAYING: "The tournament is very difficult, and this was clear even before it started and before we saw the first round. All the teams have the passion and enthusiasm to prove themselves. The levels of the teams are very close. Naturally, in a big tournament like the Africa Cup of Nations, the performance level and form of the big teams starts to gradually become clearer as the tournament progresses." 34. PRESS CONFERENCE ENDING / HASSAN AND TREZEGUET GETTING UP AND WALKING AWAY STORY: Coach Hugo Broos said South Africa does not fear Egypt's Premier League contingent, Mohamed Salah and Omar Marmoush, ahead of their Group B clash in the Africa Cup of Nations on Friday (December 26). Manchester City forward Marmoush scored the equalizer against Zimbabwe, before a late strike from Liverpool's Salah secured a 2-1 win in their opening game in Morocco on Monday. South Africa beat Angola by the same score in their Group B opener thanks to Lyle Foster's screamer. South Africa's Belgian coach said he will not use a special approach to contain Salah or Marmoush. "We are focused on no one. The most important thing is the team," Broos, who led Cameroon to the 2017 edition title over Egypt, told a press conference on Thursday. "We all know how good Salah is, we all know how good Marmoush is and we all know how good Trezeguet is and other players. They are such a good team. Why should we focus on one player? We have to be prepared to beat the team." The last meeting between the two sides in AFCON ended in South Africa's favour, after they beat the hosts of the 2019 edition 1-0 in the Round of 16. "We have to put Egypt in difficult (situations) and you can only do that when you use your quality and the players you normally use," added Broos. (Production: Mussab Al-Khairalla, Conal Quinn)
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