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Supporters raised Egyptian and Palestinian flags in support of Gaza as Pharaohs boarded an open-top bus at the top of the parade.
Published on 10 Jul 2026
Hundreds of fans welcomed the Egyptian football team home after their best performance at the World Cup, which ended this season with a round of 16 exit to Argentina.
A sea of fans dressed in red, white and black filled the area outside the airport in El-Alamein on Friday, where the Pharaohs boarded an open-top bus to travel to the coastal city.
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“We are very happy with the team,” manager Mohamed Gehad told news agency AFP at the airport where he went to receive the players.
“Their spirit was high, and ours is high when we receive them.”
Supporters raised Egyptian flags and Palestinian flags in support of the Gaza Strip, as well as a picture of coach Hossam Hassan posing for both matches.
Egypt won their first World Cup in 2026 before reaching the last 16 of the world cup for the first time ever. win against Australia on penalties.
They came close to achieving one of their goals against Argentina, taking a 2-0 lead with only a few minutes to play before the match. amazing 3-2 comeback win.
But the fans remained happy, dancing and drumming, singing patriotic songs and wearing shirts bearing the name of team captain and former Liverpool player Mohamed Salah.
Others carried handwritten signs that read: “You men are proud of us.”
“They have reached a level they have never reached before, and we are proud of them,” fan Eyad Ahmed told AFP.
‘A new beginning’
As the team bus left the airport, flags waved above the crowd, and supporters followed the bus until it disappeared.
“I will do everything I can to ensure that this is a new beginning for Egyptian football in the world,” Salah wrote on social media during the celebrations.
The players are expected to meet with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Saturday, who on social media thanked the team for their “good performance”.
The Egyptian Football Association has also filed a complaint against the players who played on Tuesday, and coach Hassan accusing the government officials of not being faireven FIFA chief Pierluigi Collina denial which he called “baseless accusations”.
Hassan applauded in Gaza after raising the Palestinian flag on the pitch after Egypt’s victory over Australia and commitment to success for the Palestinian people.
At his press conference before Monday, Hassan he said The suffering of the Palestinian people was a “shame on earth” as he called on football to do more to help them.
During the tournament, thousands of Palestinians gathered in restaurants built in tents or made of corrugated iron removed from destroyed buildings to watch the Egyptian match.
On Wednesday, Palestinians in Gaza turned out in droves to pay their respects to a senior member of Egypt’s main aid organization, who set up World Cup screenings in the rubble and was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the taxi he was in this week.
The strike killed Mohammed al-Wahidi, also a Palestinian, on the eve of the Egypt-Argentina match on Tuesday, along with three other people, including two young passers-by, siblings aged 10 and eight, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, medics said.
In the meantime, these stories have been discussed, and those of al-Wahidi who were despised by the Palestinian and Egyptian authorities have been buried. Neighbors and friends visited his house throughout the day to pay their respects.
