His grandfather, the head of the Mixed Courts Lawyer Syndicate, mediated between King Fouad and Saad Zagloul

The grandson of the Belgian founder of Zamalek club visits Cairo after long longing

• Zamalek after the Egyptianization.

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• The grandson of the founder of Zamalek club after attending the club's match with its traditional rival Al-Ahly a few days ago.

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 The Belgian de Georges Ronaldo Marzbach, grandson of the founder of Zamalek club Georges Marzbach, is currently visiting Cairo on a tourist trip that combines getting to know Egypt, where his grandfather lived in his brightest days, interacting with its social and political events, encouraging Zamalek Club and attending some of its matches.

Marzbach, the grandson, told Zamalek channel after attending a match between Zamalek and Al-Ahly: “I am happy to visit Zamalek after many years of interruption, and I am happy with the players’ insistence against Al-Ahly, and I have very great confidence that they will win the league this season, and I am continuing in Egypt and I will attend the next match for the team.” ».

George Merzbach was born in the Belgian city of Brussels on September 25, 1874, studied law in Belgium, and came to Egypt to train as a lawyer with one of his father's friends, but he soon decided to settle after feeling the possibility of success in work in Egypt, so he made his way in the legal profession, and his situation developed Professionally, in light of the presence of mixed courts, until he assumed the position of head of the Syndicate of Foreign Lawyers in Egypt, obtained the title of Bekay, and mediated in resolving the constitutional crisis between King Fouad and leader Saad Zagloul, according to identical press sources.

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The Zamalek club website recorded the biography of Marzbach, where he wrote on his official page:

“George Marzbach (1876-1936) is a Belgian lawyer, who was the head of one of the mixed courts in Egypt, and he was the founder of the Egyptian Zamalek Club in 1911. He was one of the great lawyers in Egypt, and one of the guests that Sultan Hussein Kamel could invite to Abdeen Palace, both in Official banquets, or for advice and opinion, and the Sultan bestowed on him the title of Bekaya, in addition to other honors such as the Order of the Noble and the Order of the Legion of Doner.

He had a distinguished legal experience, and he became one of the few advisors that Baron Empain listened to and met or needed while establishing the suburb of Heliopolis, and he was one of King Fouad's legal recourse.

This man contributed to the establishment of the Zamalek club under the name Qasr al-Nil, then moved it to the place of the High Court, and then moved away from his club obedient and satisfied with the achievement he had achieved, leaving Zamalek afterwards one of the edifices of sports in the world, and Marzbach moved away from all sports.

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And the journalist Ibrahim Issa said earlier on the “Al-Makhtal” channel on “YouTube”, that “Merzbach was a politically and socially influential person, in addition to being King Fouad’s lawyer, he established charities, shelters, hospitals and many other things, which reflect the spirit of cooperation and support for the community.” .

Issa added that “Merzbach, after a period of founding Zamalek Club, was overthrown, and this matter, although it did not seem pleasant, was in some way expressing the national spirit in that period, and that both the two major clubs in Egypt, Al-Ahly and Zamalek, had a mixed upbringing, meaning They included Egyptians and foreigners, and later insisted, and that both were not established as a football club from the beginning, but as an ordinary club that entered football within its activities at a later time.

Journalist Yasser Ayoub said, "The idea of ​​​​establishing the Zamalek club came to the mind of the Belgian Marzbach while attending the Christmas party at the Al-Trumai company that hosted the ceremony, which was also founded by Belgium. Lord Kitchener, who put up a sign preventing non-Englishmen from entering Al-Jazira Club, called it Qasr Al-Nil Club, taking advantage of his relations with Khedive Abbas Helmy II, and that the first board of directors included his brother, Baron de Empain and discoverer of Tutankhamun’s tomb, Englishman Howard Carter.

The idea of ​​establishing the Zamalek club came to the mind of the Belgian Marzbach while attending the Christmas party in the lounge of the Altromay company that hosted the party, which was also founded by Belgium.

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