By Steven Goff Bob Bradley, the American coach of Egypt's national soccer team, watched the first half of Al-Masry's ill-fated match against Al-Ahly on TV Wednesday before driving to Cairo's international stadium to attend the Zamalek-Ismaily game ...
There's still time: Al-Ahly player Walid Soliman vying for the ball against Ismaili players during their recent Premier League match. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has postponed plans to turn Egypt's Premier League professional till next ...
In doing so, authorities would be meeting a key demand of the street-battled hardened ultras – highly politicized, well-organized, violence-prone militant soccer fans modeled on similar groups in Italy and Serbia – who have for days been seeking to ...
Four Egyptian clubs – Al Ahly, Zamalek, Ismaily and ENNPI – are set to compete in this year's continental championships. Zamalek are scheduled to face Mainland champions Young Africans in the African Champions League first leg at the National Stadium ...
It was the worst case of soccer violence not only in Egypt but Africa at large and the deadliest worldwide since 1996. Several Al- Ahly players were injured and one of them said it was "like a war." Further reports emerged that in Cairo, ...
Taha Ismail, a soccer expert, agrees that nothing has changed on the sports front since the revolution. "One thing has changed in fact. Football fans are now behaving much worse at matches, because of the poor relationship between them and the police," ...
1 (UPI) -- A stampede by thousands of soccer fans after a match in Egypt Wednesday left at least 73 people dead and scores more injured, officials said. Egyptian Health Ministry officials put the death toll from the melee at the Port Said stadium at 73 ...