This is serious!! Come again?? Because I saw the landslide coming. It was written in a very small newspaper, you know, rumours newspapers, just one line, like Shabana retires from Professional Squash and talks with the Egyptian Squash Federation for Is not living in Egypt a problem for the National Coach? I realised that I can do my job, connecting with the players, of which, many of them are living abroad. Between June and September, the squash season is full on and not much time is spent by the players in one place, I go back to Egypt for the summer, which is the offseason and will give us, the Egyptian National Teams to all get together and train as a whole team through National training camps.
The man is world class in his work and understands exactly how to work the machine that is Egyptian squash. Egypt Squash is lucky to have him and his team. For that, you need a coach. As for the senior players, as much as they need coaches, they also need guidance and advice on how to handle, develop and improve their careers in order to be the best. Someone to be there of them to help them face the many different stations they will pass throughout their careers. My role is to help and assist every Egyptian player on their quest to become the best player they can be.
Can you give us an example? Good or Bad. When do you pull out? How to pull out? Should you pull out? If you are having motivation issues, how to sort it out? So basically, players come up with those situations there are facing, and they talk to me about it, I relate to them my experiences and what I thought was good or bad for me, and how I got out of the situation.
How do you communicate with your players. Nowadays, via all today's technologies, Skype, Viber, Whatsapp, emails, normal phones, and so far, it has been great. If they want to talk to me every day, they can, sometimes when they are facing a specific problem for example.
All the tributes MaestroSquashTV. Is that to state to yourself you are still alive? I used to express myself inside the court. That where I felt more comfortable. So I decided it was time to get out of my shell , take that step and get out of my comfort zone. You must have been delighted with the great response you got? It made me feel good.
