The Pharaohs claimed the first title of the Nile Basin tournament on Monday, after beating Uganda 3-1 in the final.
Al-Sayed Hamdi netted twice in the 38th and 69th minutes, while Mohamed “Gedo” Nagy slid in the third for Egypt. Manoya Eric scored Uganda’s consolation goal 6 minutes from time.
The seven-time African champions made a confident start to the game and completely dominated play with their possession.
Mahmoud “Shikabala” Abdel-Razek and Mohamed Abou-Treika were in excellent shape, delivering some clever through-passes to their strikers behind the Ugandan backline, but they were hampered by the assistant referee who seemed to have his flag up constantly and gave some poor calls, as proven by the video replay.
