Despite our loss to the lousiest national team in Africa, I am proud of Egypt's national team and Egypt's old and respectable people. The Egyptian people cannot be compared to a barbaric and destructive team such as the Algerian national team. That team and its people know nothing about values, morals, or dignity. I hate Algeria as much as I hate rubbish.

I am from Dasouq. I hope that the national team wins, 5-1.

We will win!

An Algerian girl sent a text message to her fiancé, an international football player for the Algerian national team, saying, "Since you travelled to Egypt to play the match, I have been following the news of the team with interest. I prayed for you day and night to win and fulfil your promise to spend our honeymoon in South Africa. I asked God to give you a convincing defeat over the Egyptian national team. Now that the game is over, I am sending you my last message and will not wait for a response from you ... because I have already married Abu Trika!"

I want to say to my Algerian brothers that this is only a football match. We are supposed to be Arabs and to tip out hats and congratulate the winner. In the end, it is an Arab national team, and we should know that very well. To Hell with any football match that brings us to this level of fanaticism and makes people hate each other. By the way, I am an Egyptian, and I love my country more than you can imagine. I am a former football player and, of course, I wish for my country to win. I love the Arab people and Muslims, though, more than I love a football match that will end with a winner and a loser.

Victory is for Egypt God willing two goals by Zidan one goal by Abu Trika and one goal by Ahmed Hassan

It's just a match like any other match. Whoever wins wins, and whoever makes it makes it. Millions are given to players and technicians, but the fans only have God, I mean, fans who are not fanatics, blind, or uncivilised. We are Muslims. Our holy places are being violated in front of all of our eyes, like the Aqsa Mosque, and we are busy with petty things. We forget our holy places, which should be the most important things to us. To God we belong, and to God we will return. There is no strength or power except with God.

Our appointment with Algeria, God willing, is on Nov. 14 at eight o'clock Egyptian time. The prayers of all Egyptian hearts are with the Pharaohs. God willing, they will make it to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and hold high the achievements of the great state of Egypt. All of the Egyptian people expect the same outcome as they saw in the 2002 World Cup finals in Korea and Japan. It was a great outcome and hard lesson from the Pharaohs, when they lost by five goals to two. God willing, however, it is in the will of the Merciful God that we will score five clean goals this time. I pray that no one will land any goals in the net of the giant goalkeeper and savage beast of Africa, Essam Al-Khoudari.

God willing, victory is for Egypt.