Egyptian Soccer Team News
Niger, as a country, is hardly associated with football. This year, however, the national team will experience the task of vying for the Africa Cup of Nations trophy.
Read More...- Egypt's angry soccer fans are deep into politics - The Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ruling generals have a new enemy: the legions of angry soccer fans who have injected fervor into recent protests demanding the military step down and battled police for days in the streets of Cairo. Known as Ultras and long viewed ...
- Soccer Riot Kills Dozens In Egypt - PC The Cowl
Violence and protests have once again exploded in Egypt concurrent to riots at a soccer match in Port Said. The game, which took place between Al Ahly and Al Masry, ended in a surprise upset with Al Ahly's 3-1 defeat. On Wednesday, 74 people died, ...
- Egypt's angry soccer fans are deep into politics - News 10NBC
- Egyptians incensed after 74 die in soccer tragedy | - Reuters
"To hell with the football match ... Give me back my boy." At least 1000 people were injured in the violence when soccer fans invaded the pitch after local team al-Masry beat Cairo-based Al Ahli, the most successful club in Africa.Egypt soccer fans rush field after game, 74 dead
- Blatter wants to reinstate Egypt football leaders; calls dismissals political ... - Washington Post
ASUNCION, Paraguay — FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he will seek to reinstate fired Egypt soccer federation leaders, calling their dismissal “direct interference” by the Cairo government. Blatter spoke Sunday in the Paraguay capital, ...
- Time for a 'Soccer Spring' Revolt! - Huffington Post (blog)
The Ultras tear up Egypt. How about tearing up the autocracies that run world soccer? The cabal of insiders who determine the structure of the world's game have never been accountable to fans. Start in England -- the home of the game -- run by an ...
- Egypt Soccer Violence Among 10 Deadliest Incidents to Ever Take Place at ... - NESN.com
by Marcus Kwesi O'Mard on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:12PM The violence at a soccer game in Port Said, Egypt, on Feb. 1 left over 70 dead and hundreds more injured. It was one of the deadliest incidents to take place at a soccer stadium anywhere in the world ...
- Egypt market plunges after deadly soccer riots - Las Vegas Sun
Investors had also found cause to cheer in the convening of the country's first post-Mubarak parliament _ a legislature that was seated after Egypt's freest elections in decades. But the riots by football fans late Wednesday in the Mediterranean city ...
- Egyptian cleric: Soccer a 'sin' and 'forbidden in Islam' - Examiner.com
In the wake of the soccer riots in Egypt that resulted in the deaths of 73 fans last week, a popular Egyptian cleric has renounced fans, players, and the game itself. "...the victims at a match in Port Said last week were not 'martyrs' and had died in ...
- Egypt Soccer Riot: African Cup Soccer Shadowed By Violence In Egypt - Huffington Post
By GERALD IMRAY 02/ 2/12 01:43 PM ET AP FRANCEVILLE, Gabon -- With soccer reeling from the violence in Egypt, players on the other side of the continent at the African Cup of Nations tried to make sense of the "death and sadness" now gripping their ...