Khaled Masri-Cairo
"I will not play in Qatar even on my dead body. Possible countries will take Tarek Hamed and the other players captive, and demand their swap with Khairat al-Shater and Beltagui." This is one of the strange remarks of Zamalek president Mortada Mansour, who is waging a fierce campaign aimed at not holding the African Super Cup match between his team and Tunisia's Esperance in Qatar.
Mansour graduates daily on the program "Zamalek Today", which is broadcast on one of the Egyptian television channels and attack Qatar, taking advantage of political differences between Egypt and Qatar, and declares that he will withdraw if the tournament was held in Qatar, because he feared his players from any hatred.
Zamalek are expected to play CAF Champions League winners Esperance in the Super Cup, but the date or venue has not been officially announced yet, pending a decision by the International Sports Court about the eligibility of Esperance in the title, after its famous crisis with WAC Morocco.
Doha hosted the African Super Cup last year between Esperance champions CA and Confederation Cup holders Raja, at the Thani Ben Jassim stadium in the confrontation that ended in favor of the Moroccan team.
Press reports quoted CAF sources as saying that Doha will host the match, and since then the president of Zamalek has always stopped attacking Qatar.
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Murtaza's comments have been ridiculed and ridiculed on social media sites, where comments about the travel of Saudi teams, most recently Al Hilal to Doha, to face Qatari teams in the Asian Champions League without any problem.
In addition to the participation of five Egyptian athletes in the World Cup athletics, which concluded two weeks ago.
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African Super Cup between Esperance and Zamalek in Qatar for 3 copies, |
A source close to Murtaza Mansour revealed to Al Jazeera Net that Murtaza's refusal to play the Zamalek Super Cup in Qatar and his preference to hold the match in the UAE is due to two special reasons for him, and Zamalek or the Egyptian state has nothing to do with it: the first is his good relations with the officials and referees in the UAE. The money "as gifts", the second appease the state to overlook the financial corruption of his son Amir.
The source said that "gifts are included in the account of Murtaza Mansour's three sons (Ahmed, Amir and Amira) so that they will not be held accountable when requesting financial disclosure while running for parliament or the presidency of Zamalek." Two years in a row, he also received valuable gifts while attending the final of the last Arab Championship between Etoile du Sahel and Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal.
The source added that Mansour's attack on Qatar is an attempt to appease the Egyptian regime to condone the corruption incidents in which his sons drowned, indicating that the public funds are now looking into the accounts of his son, the general supervisor of the club, after his wealth was suddenly inflated. Receiving commissions and brokerage from players agents when buying any new player or renewing his contract.
The source added that the last illegal commission received by Amir from the agent of Moroccan player Khaled Boutaib exceeded 250 thousand dollars, where he was just steps away from the free departure from the Turkish club Maliataspor, but Zamalek paid a million and a half dollars to the Turkish club, so that Amir receives a large commission Of club money.
He concluded by saying that the inflated wealth of Amir, even though he works as an assistant lawyer for his father, put him under the control of public funds, and his father tried to exploit his parliamentary immunity by transferring most of the money of his son to his personal account and the accounts of his brother and grandchildren, to escape accountability, and in his television praise On state organs, launching insults and insults to Qatar and Turkey.
On the decision to withdraw from the Super Cup match, former Zamalek star Tamer Abdel Hamid opened fire on Mortada Mansour, accusing him of trading in patriotism, which is far from it.
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"Where was your patriotism when you decided to fly Mustafa Fathi to Qatar for a hospitalization at Aspire Academy there? You want Shaw to work for you," Abdel Hamid said in a video posted on social media. And therefore will not benefit or take the shot and Shaw, which is why and not anything else. "
What will Zamalek do?
Zamalek board members, headed by Ismail Youssef and Ahmed Galal Ibrahim, are trying to convince Mourtada to travel to Qatar if the CAF decides to play the game there, especially as the CAF list states that the team that wins the Confederation Cup will be a party to the Super Cup. The match will not be able to defend its title, and will be excluded from participating in any African club competition, the Confederation Cup or the African Champions League, for three consecutive versions.
The CAF penalties stipulate that the team withdrawing from the final of the African Champions League or CAF Cup will be fined $ 100,000.
Mortada Mansour replied that Zamalek is preparing a formal protest note and sending it to the CAF to prevent the establishment of the Super in Qatar, supporting his memo evidence that there is political tension between the two countries, and will also address the Egyptian Federation to support it.