Abaza told the king, "Al-Ahly defeated Farouk" ... and Amer supported Al-Ahly, despite his friendliness

Book: Mustafa Medbouli, a "hand player" who was kidnapped by politics from sport

• Abdel Hakim Amer intervened to save Al-Ahly.

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• King Farouk, "Zamalekawi is the heart."

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• Madbouly played for the Zamalek handball team.

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A new book on the political and social scenes of the Egyptian club Zamalek, its career in the royal and republican eras, alike, and the styles of the book that revealed the affiliation of influential contemporary personalities to the club, among them, the former Minister of Defense of Egypt, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the former Egyptian Parliament Speaker Dr. Fathy Sorour, and the President The current ministers of Egypt, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, in addition to some scholars who have gained an international reputation, such as Dr. Ahmed Zewail and Dr. Magdi Yaqoub, the reader Mahmoud Al-Tablawi, and the professor at Al-Azhar University Dr. Ahmed Karima.

The move

The book, which bore the name "The Greater State of Zamalek", which was published by journalist Samir El-Gamal on the "Island of Roses" library, reviewed the shift that took place to the Zamalek Club, after the encouragement of the former King of Egypt, Farouk I, who was at the beginning "Ahlawi Samim", and that was a skirmish. From him to his war minister Haydar Pasha, as he recounts a joke that took place after this move, where the late king was in a match between Zamalek and Al-Ahly, and the latter won by two goals. King Farouk flirted with the great, sarcastic Al-Ahly writer, Fikri Abaza, and was known for his intuition and quick response, and asked him: “What You will write in the newspaper tomorrow, Pasha. “Abaza responded with lightning speed,” “I will write that Al-Ahly defeated Farouk,” so Farouk simply took the joke, and burst out laughing at it.

The book traces Zamalek's relationship with politics after the Free Officers overthrew the monarchy in July 1952, and the insistence of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, the second man in Nasiriyah Egypt, despite his well-known Zamalek affiliation to intervene to save the Al-Ahly club, after it stumbled in the early sixties and its bad results continued. Team Abdel Mohsen Murtaja was nominated for the presidency. The club insisted on choosing it despite the rejection of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, as Ali Ziwar was nominated, and he was also a military man to take over the football administration, and he kept following them with his continued support, until Al-Ahly won the Egypt Cup in 1965, and he told Murtaja, as he drove him to his home, "Al-Ahly is not just A sports club, it is a national symbol that was founded in the face of the British. ”

Moving from old to new

The lines move from the old to the new revealing that the two Egyptian scientists, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, and Dr. Magdi Yaqoub are “Zamalekawyans”, while Alaa and Gamal Mubarak tend to be “Al-Masry” and “Al-Ismaili”, unlike the former Egyptian Defense Minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who encouraged Zamalek Quite simply.

The writer lists names who refused to reveal their football affiliations, such as the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, and former Egyptian Parliament Speaker Dr. Fatehi Sorour, who refused to disclose his favorite club despite the continuous press reports that described him as "Al Ahlawi".

As for the funniest secrets revealed by the book, it is the involvement of the current Egyptian Prime Minister, Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, in the sports team of the Zamalek handball club, and his coach was Dr. Kamal Darwish, and Madbouly's intention at that time to continue in the game and reach the circle of stardom, especially since he became a champion in a few years. For Egypt, Arabs and Africa, and he won 16 league and cup championships, while wearing the Zamalek shirt, had it not been for his preference for his professional and political scientific future, which ended with him as a minister of housing, then prime minister, and cut the road to his sporting future.

The lines of the book dealt with the interest of a group particularly appreciated in our societies in sports and football, and people's mistaken belief from a group of people, and their isolation from life, and they are religious scholars, and the book mentions the defense of the Holy Quran reader Sheikh Al-Tablawi, for this group by saying that these “are like the rest People .. eat, drink and play, and are interested in sports and life. ”He“ played football in his youth, and that is why he encouraged her to understand and make friends with football stars from various clubs, but his favorite club is Zamalek. ”

There is also a statement by Dr. Ahmed Karima admitting that he "encouraged Zamalek for half a century, and he does not see in football any reason to prohibit it."

It is worth noting that the book, by virtue of its title, focused on the relationship of one club with politics, which is the Zamalek Club, and it did not address other clubs, foremost of which is the Al-Ahly club headed by leader Saad Zaghloul, and President Mohamed Naguib, who was expressing his support for the club explicitly, according to documented historical testimonies.

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- The two Egyptian scholars, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, and Dr. Magdi Yaqoub are “Zamalekawyans,” while Alaa and Gamal Mubarak tend to favor “Al-Masry” and “Ismaili”, in contrast to the former Egyptian Defense Minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who used to encourage Zamalek unequivocally.

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