Egypt's national team, the Pharaohs will take on Senegal in a friendly match later this year amid the team's preparations for the World Cup qualifier against Zimbabwe this March.

Egypt was initially planned to compete with Chile on February 6, 2012.

"The Chile match that was supposed to be held in Spain is now cancelled. Egypt is now scheduled to play with Senegal in Morocco at the same date," said Hassan Farid, the Egyptian football association (EFA) vice president, in a TV interview on Monday.

The vice president did not mention why the match with Chile was cancelled, however some reports claimed that the Egyptian players were unable to get visas for the match.

Egypt suffered a heavy 3-0 defeat by Ghana last week in the first friendly match of the Pharaohs camp in UAE.

Farid earlier denied reports that he asked for the sacking of the national team's American coach Bob Bradley after their humiliating loss.

"All claims about firing Bradley are rumors," the EFA official said.

Egypt, who delivered better performance in Monday's 4-2 defeat to Ivory Coast in the second friendly test of UAE camp will host Zimbabwe in March in their third match in the World Cup qualifiers’ group stage.

The seven-time African champions top Group G with six points from two games, three ahead of second-placed Guinea.

Zimbabwe and Mozambique hold one point each.

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