In April 2005, however, Lončarević was appointed head coach of the Libyan national team for a second time, after their previous coach, Mohamed El Khemisy, resigned from the post following a 4-1 defeat to Egypt in the World Cup qualifiers.
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Ali is from a sporting family; his younger brother Osama Elsamni plays forward for FK Teplice of the Czech Republic, and his father Ibrahim was a player on the Egypt national football team.
On 12 February 2003, he debuted for the senior Danish national team, coming on as a substitute in a 4–1 win against Egypt, and Kristiansen ended the 2002–03 season as joined Superliga top scorer, him and Søren Frederiksen both scoring 18 goals.
He plays the Defensive midfielder position for Malaysia Super League side Kelantan and former Egypt's national football team.
Initially he was qualified to play for the Egypt national football team, but was denied by then coach Hassan Shehata stating that "not every Egyptian playing for a foreign league qualifies to play for the national side" as the Egyptian side then was very successful with 3 consecutive African Cup of Nations wins and performed well in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.