Zamalek Club president Mortada Mansour has been suspended for four years. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA), headed by Amr al-Ganainy, has officially notified the International Federation of Association Footbal (FIFA) of the four-year suspension.
An additional letter was sent to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) by officials from the EFA, regarding a penalty against Mansour. The sanctions issued against him include his suspension and a 100,000EGP fine.
The actions enforced by the committee come in light of several complaints that came against Mansour by several sports federations and clubs, including Al-Ahly Club, the Egyptian Handball Federation, the EFA, and various members of the Zamalek Club.
The committee called on Egypt’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Ashraf Sobhy, in order to apply the penalties in accordance with Article 84 of the Egyptian Constitution and the provisions of Sports Law No. 71 of 2017.
In response to the suspension and penalties enforced, Mansour submitted on Monday an official memorandum against the committee’s decision.
Ashraf Sobhy said that the memorandum will be looked at and studied examined before making any decision.
Mansour made a statement earlier during an interview with journalist Ahmed Moussa on Egypt’s Sada al-Balad satellite channel that his suspension “will not be implemented and I will continue my work normally,” adding that only the General Assembly of the Zamalek Club has the right to determine his fate.
Mohamed Salah a star football player is transferring from Liverpool and is willing to join Barcelona. He had been one of the best players in the premier league, is linked to Barcelona in the past, though his deal never came into fruition because the cost was too high. Though his deal expires with liver pool next year, the club needlessly needs to sell him or risk losing him for free. Barcelona considers Liverpool a difficult negotiator though his deal having to consider a deal from Philipe Coutinho. The Catalan team is chasing salah, but is the deal really worth it to him, or not. Mohamed Salah a football player will cost more on just one team in terms of salary, agent fees, and transfer fees. Salah is in negotiation with big teams however Barcelona is not pursuing the option actively as they want to stay on liverpools good terms. Salah is in negotiation with big teams as he continues to search for his deal with several big clubs. All in all salah is rumored to have his deal with many clubs, do you think he should leave Liverpool or not.
Egypt’s squash player Ali Farag won the Optasia Championship title at the Wimbledon Club in London despite a warm-up injury ahead of the match on Saturday, using his victory speech to highlight the discrepancies in sports and politics.
“One more thing that I know is going to get me in trouble, but you know we’ve all seen the what’s going on in the world at the moment with Ukraine and nobody is happy about what’s going,” Farag said.
“Nobody should ever accept any killings in the world, any oppression. But we’ve never been allowed to speak about politics in sports, but all of a sudden now it’s allowed. So, that we’re allowed, I hope that people also look at the oppression everywhere in the world,” he added.
“I mean, the Palestinians have been going through that for the past 74 years and, well, I guess because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the of the media of the West, we couldn’t talk about it, but now that we can talk about the Ukraine, we can talk about Palestinians. So please keep that in mind,” Farag continued.
Farag, World’s No. 2, triumphed 4-11, 11-8, 11-8, 13-11 against World No. 6 Diego Elias at Optasia. His speech was not included in the highlights of the match on the Youtube channel of PSA.
Starting out his story from 2008, he was a player in Zamalek, Abogabal in Egypt Assuit. His real name is Hamad Kotb Abu Gabal Ali, he started his role as a goal keeper since he was a junior player in the youth club of Assuit. In 2008 he started out to play for the ENNPI Egyptian club as a goal keeper, up to 2013. Following the young boy’s passion, it was his dream to play for al Zamalek Club, he stayed there for 3 consecutive years and switched to Smouha at 2019. “According to his father’s advice, he told him the world is always ups and downs, when it’s your turn stay humble”. In 2021 he participated in Egypt’s national team as a goal keeper, he had his chance to shine and succeed in front of the world.