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Brazilian legend to coach Zamalek Posted: Tuesday July 09, 2002 10:51 AMCAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Brazilian football legend Carlos Alberto Torres will coach Egyptian football powerhouse Zamalek, the club confirmed on Tuesday. Torres, 57, captained the Brazilian side that won the 1970 World Cup, scoring once in his team's 4-1 defeat of Italy in the final. Torres replaces Zamalek's former German coach, Otto Pfister, who left the club after failing to hold onto the Egyptian league and African Cup Winners Cup titles it clinched last season. "Torres was among 40 other coaches on our wish-list, but we hired him as we wanted to shift to the Brazilian football school that suits the talents of our players more than the German one," Zamalek president Kamal Darwish told The Associated Press. Torres will receive US$150,000 per season plus bonuses if he guides Zamalek to domestic or continental trophies. Egypt is the second African destination for the Brazilian coach who briefly led the Nigerian national team in 1995. Torres coached Brazilian clubs including Flamengo, Botafogo and Corinthians and American side Miami Sharks in 1987. He will lead Zamalek in the African Champions League quarterfinals, which kick off in August. Zamalek is in the second group with Tunisia's Esperance, ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast and Costa Do Sol from Mozambique.
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