Egypt’s Elashwal training his sights on Argentina

Three years ago Abdelrahman Elashwal was earning a living as a delivery boy at his father’s laundry, scooting around on his little motorbike through the streets of Giza, the city that is home to the most famous pyramids on the planet.

As the 22-year-old Elashwal himself explained, his life took a whole new direction when his father suggested he try his luck with a local football club. Given the choice, he opted for futsal instead, a decision he has since shown to be the right one, not least by inspiring Egypt to a ground-breaking defeat of Italy in the Round of 16 of the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016.

“It’s hard to describe just how happy we felt at knocking Italy out,” the young pivot toldFIFA.com. The scorer of a hat-trick in his side’s momentous 4-3 win, he added, with understandable pride in his voice: “Nobody believed in us as much as we believed in ourselves, and here we are. We’re the champions of Africa and one of the eight best teams in the world.”

Though it might have gone …

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