Emergency Ahli Egyptian because of "magic and sorcery"

Khaled El Masry - Cairo

The injury of the Egyptian club player Hossam Ashour - yesterday Monday - a wave of anger among fans of the club, after repeated injuries to players in the last month, especially since the return of a long injury since last November.

Al Ahly's clinic is crowded with a number of injured players, including Ahmed Fathi, Walid Sulaiman, Waleed Azaro, Ali Maaloul, Rami Rabia, Salah Mohsen and the new duo Geraldo and Mohamed Mahmoud.

Some accused team doctor Dr. Khaled Mahmoud of causing these injuries because he did not succeed in diagnosing the cases of the players, while some officials - and behind them the public - to justify the current situation of the club exposure to "magic and witchcraft."

This caused a wave of ridicule through the social networking sites to mocking the Ahli doctor and linking him with previous statements by Zamalek president Mourtada Mansour in which he talked about the existence of "down work" in the Egyptian stadiums.

Back to back
Al-Ahli fans began to repeat the tone of "magic and sorcery", as the Zamalek club president, the traditional champion, who accuses anyone who wins him of orchestrating "subversion, magic and sorcery".

This justified the way to the stadiums starting in 2014, when Murtada Mansour, the then Ismaili goalkeeper Issam Al-Hadari was accused of resorting to "Sheikh" to do the work of magic and sorcery, in order to prevent the entry of a goal in his goal during the Zamalek and Ismaili.

"This is not new to Al-Hadari," said Mourtada. "Since his days in the Egyptian national team, he has been doing this work and he is using Jamaican sprites to tackle the ball in front of his goal."

Tariq Al-Ashri was also charged after Zamalek lost Enppi in the same season, while Al-Ashri took charge of the Petroleum team on charges of using magic and sorcery.

The Zamalek president continued to charge many coaches and clubs with magic and sorcery to win matches, such as accusing Egyptian Al-Borseidi after beating Zamalek in the Egyptian Cup because coach Hossam Hassan uses a magician named Fathi in the games to do sorcery in order to score points. The rest of the league prevented this magician from entering the stadium.

Al-Ahli fans went out in campaigns on social networking sites - in addition to the official club channel - to mourn Mortada and assert that this has nothing to do with modern science but with work, diligence and perseverance, until "Harith uncle" came out of the dressing room of the red team and wore " Sporting "written the word" Jamaica ", in a clear reference to the irony of the president of Zamalek.

Many journalists and program providers have also attacked Murtada Mansour and stressed that this is a myth and there is no room to talk about it.

The verse turned upside down
Despite the irony and sharp criticism of Mortada Mansour, the idea of ​​intervention magic and sorcery in the loss or victory was convinced by many officials, which emerged after the number of injuries in the club Ahli in a strange and continuous until the matter hit the newly joined team after the participation In their first match of the red team shirt in front of the team Smouha.

Some of the officials of Ahli - headed by coach Mohamed Yousef - justified the large number of injuries that there are acts of magic and sorcery within the team cause the number of consecutive injuries, and then came a large wave of red fans and some officials in the channel to adopt this idea, especially after the injury of Mahmoud Mahmoud cut in The crusade, until Al-Ahly magazine published "Ain al-Hossoud Oud", while others accused the team doctor of responsibility.

Zamalek fans came out for Al-Shammata in Ahli, after officials believed there was magic and witchcraft after they denied the rumors.

The doctor denies
"Hasbiullah and yes agent," the doctor responded to the club Ahli accused of causing injury to Mohammed Mahmoud newcomer, in addition to all former players.

"What is my relationship with hitting a player with a colleague or hitting a player to another? Is it my job to prevent these interventions or to deal with it and I know the nature of these injuries?"

Khaled Mahmoud refused to comment on the matter, stressing that he would not speak on the orders of the board of directors, but asked for the players' testimony in his favor. He was joined by team players Moamen Zakaria and Ayman Sharaf through their official pages on social networking sites.

The players are not allowed to comment, but one of them - who refused to be named - told Al Jazeera.net that most of the players were injured in the "frontal, frontal and posterior" muscles, due to training.

"The team is exposed to an increase in the training loads that lead to this type of injury, and the pressure of the player on these muscles during the games lead to a tear."

He pointed out that "the team is training at nine o'clock in the morning on a daily basis and plays at night, and this has an income in injuries because the response of the muscle varies between the morning and evening, as well as the poor ground, which also affect."

The president of the club, Mahmoud Khatib, inspected the grounds of the Mokhtar Titch stadium, which the team is training to stand up for, and solve, its problems at the earliest opportunity.