The Brazilian handed in his resignation on Monday, one day after Ittihad suffered their fifth defeat in ten games at ENPPI.

The Alexandrians are now third from bottom, but have a game in hand that could see them pop out of the danger zone should they win.

"We have shortlisted a number of names to succeed Cabral," Ittihad chairman Mohamed Moselhi told FilGoal.com.

"There is Mohamed Amer, Ismail Youssef, Diaa Al-Sayed and the German Theo Buecker."