The Egyptian Football Association will reward a penalty kick after the match ends
The Egyptian Football Association announced that it had rewarded the referees of the Smouha match with Al-Masry in the local league, after a penalty kick was awarded after the final whistle.
The Egyptian Federation stated, in a press statement, that it agreed to the referees committee’s request to reward the referee, Ahmed Al-Adawi, and the video referee, Abbas Kabil, and his assistant Hamada Al-Qalawi, for their courage in applying the law after the end of the match, and the referee’s resort to video technology, and accordingly calculated a correct penalty kick.
Referee Ahmed Al-Adawi announced the end of the match with a 1-1 draw, and while the players headed to leave the stadium, the video referee alerted him to the presence of a handball inside the penalty area on one of Smouha's players, and after watching the shot on a screen outside the stadium, the referee counted a penalty kick for Al-Masry, and returned the players to resume the match , But substitute Ahmed Rifaat missed the opportunity to grab the victory, after goalkeeper El Hani Suleiman responded to the kick in the seventh minute of stoppage time.
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