Ahly will looking for their second Super Cup title having first won it 2002.
BBC: Egypt's Ahly are hoping to win their second Super Cup title
In the last year he has scooped both the Champions' League prize and the Uefa Super Cup.
Yet influential midfielder Mohamed Barakat has been ruled out of the starting-line up as the Super Cup nears.
BBC: Egypt's Ahly are hoping to win their second Super Cup title
It is the third time in the Super Cup's 22-year history that the match will be contested outside of Italy.
Friday's game marks the 14th Super Cup match since it was first introduced by the Confederation of African Football in 1993.
BBC: Egypt's Ahly are hoping to win their second Super Cup title
Atletico Madrid takes the UEFA Super Cup against Chelsea 4-1 and Falcao is the star of the show with a hat-trick.
During his time at Famagusta, Ketsbaia has guided the club to two league titles, one Cypriot cup and the Cypriot Super Cup.
McGhee was a popular player during a six-year spell, during which Aberdeen won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup.
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Hamburg had provided the opposition to the Dons in the 1984 European Super Cup final and lost out 2-0 on aggregate to the Scots.
It also gets shared rights to the final and European Super Cup, which pits the Champions League winner against the holder of the Uefa Cup.
Mr Abramovich was not in court for the ruling and is thought to be in Monte Carlo for Chelsea's Super Cup Final on Friday night.
Hargreaves, who joins Steven Gerrard on the sidelines, has tendinitis in his knee and will also not play in United's Super Cup game on Friday.
For the Moroccan military team, it will be the first time they have played in the Super Cup and coach Mohamed Fakhir faces a swift return to Cairo.
BBC: Egypt's Ahly are hoping to win their second Super Cup title
Coach Jose Mourinho had made seven changes following last weekend's win over Rayo Vallecano, ahead of Tuesday's second leg of the Spanish Super Cup at Barca's Camp Nou.
The game will go to extra time and penalties if need to decide who claims the Super Cup, but the score after 90 minutes will count towards Premier League points.
On the opening day reigning champions Ports Authority take on the 2008 runners-up Kallon FC in a league game that will also double as a first ever Super Cup match.
Bulgarian Cervenkov led the side who are sponsored by Romanov's bank to a 1-0 Super Cup victory over Suduva, who sit fourth in the league and won the national cup.
An Ajax debutant at 18, he won three domestic titles, the European Cup, Super Cup and World Club Cup while in Amsterdam before a short and injury-plagued spell with Milan.
Ramos, who won the Uefa Cup twice with Sevilla as well as the Uefa Super Cup and Copa del Rey, has turned around Tottenham's form and fortunes since replacing Dutchman Martin Jol.
Internazionale would like to thank Rafael Benitez for his work in charge of the team, which he guided to success in the Italian League Super Cup and in the FIFA Club World Cup.
His side certainly went into the game in good form after winning the Turkish Super Cup - the equivalent of the Community Shield in England - and opening their league campaign with an away victory.
Ahly, the most successful club in Caf history with five Champions League victories, four African Cup Winners Cup successes and three African Super Cup triumphs, barred journalists and followers from a midweek flight to Tunisia.
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The first football match to be played at the stadium, located on the east bank of the river Vistula, will be a Polish Super Cup clash between Legia Warsaw and Wisla Krakow on February 11.
Uefa will use the system from the final qualifying round in the Champions League, throughout the Euro 2012 qualifying, in August's Super Cup between Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid, and, again, in the Europa League.
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Liverpool will not be asked to pre-qualify, partly because that process clashes with Uefa's showpiece date for the Super Cup match between the Champions League winners and the Uefa victors, CSKA Moscow, in Monaco on 26 August.
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In 1989, he was an aspiring Barca midfielder when the then 22-year-old suffered a serious knee against Milan in the European Super Cup - an injury that would bring his career to a premature end four years later.
And like Jeter, who has five World Series rings, Giggs is a winner: 12 Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups, two UEFA Champions Leagues, one Super Cup, an Intercontinental Cup and a FIFA Club World Cup.
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Raul left the Bernabeu in July 2010 to join Schalke, and has now scored 69 Champions League goals, as well as one in the Uefa Super Cup and one in the Intercontinental Cup (both as a Real Madrid player).
He steered Milan to the Coppa Italia in 2003, the Serie A title in 2003--04, the UEFA Champions League in both 2002--03 and 2006--07, the UEFA Super Cup in 2003 and 2007 and the FIFA Club World Cup crown in 2007.
In addition to a full program of 38 Premier League games, the club also contested the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, the UEFA Super Cup in Monaco and advanced to the semifinals of both English soccer's FA Cup and Football League Cup.
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