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Portugal-based Egyptians, Ali Ghazal and Saleh Gomaa, talked to sntv last Thursday (30th January) about playing in Europe.

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SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Ghazal, Nacional midfielder:
"When I came here, I noticed that life is so beautiful in Madeira. The weather is much like the weather in Egypt. It's very nice. So, for me, it was easy to adapt to the weather. I had no problem with that. My only problem was to adapt to playing football. Because I come from a different background, from Egypt, where playing football is so different. My position was new at Nacional. So I had to adapt to playing football in Portugal. With time and lots of training and under the supervision of our manager Manuel Machado, it went all well, thank god and I could improve a lot, thank god."