A strongly worded statement from Al-Ahly to the Egyptian Federation .. and demands foreign referees for all its matches

The Egyptian club Al-Ahly announced today that it has asked the Egyptian Football Association to appoint foreign referees from the first European classification for all upcoming matches of the team.

Al-Ahly stated on its official website: "The club's management sent a letter this morning to the Football Association requesting the appointment of foreign referees of the first European classification for all upcoming Al-Ahly matches, and for the club to bear all financial costs, according to the competitions regulations."

Al-Ahly added: "In the event of rejection, the club asked FIFA officials to show the truth to the public opinion and announce the reasons, especially since Al-Ahly will bear all the financial costs of that. And he continued: "Al-Ahly also asked in his speech to clarify the matter about the intransigence that many touch. Is the goal of it pushing the club to resort to the International Football Association to uncover the unjustified errors, whether arbitration (crude) that he is exposed to, or what came from the amendments and arrangements in the match schedule without taking into account? The principle of equal opportunities, especially since it has not yet been announced by the federation, why did Al-Ahly start the second round of the league without playing its postponed match with Aswan from the first round, and why did the activities of the second round start with the match of Ghazal El Mahalla and not the clearing Egypt, as happened in the first round .. .This leads to the Al-Ahly team playing two consecutive matches outside Cairo with Mahalla and then Al-Ittihad in Alexandria before the summit match, and before going into the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final match, which is set for this 15th of this month.

Al-Ahly explained: "This came after the (crude) arbitration errors committed by the referee of the Al-Ahly match and Ghazl El-Mahalla yesterday, where he overlooked the counting of a correct penalty kick for Mohamed Hani, the Al-Ahly player. He also overlooked the dismissal of the defender of Ghazl El-Mahalla who obstructed Mohamed Sharif, the Al-Ahly striker, while he was alone. In addition to the opponent’s scoring the winning goal from (Fawel), it is incorrect, according to the testimony of all the refereeing experts.

Al-Ahly added: "Al-Ahly mentioned in his speech some arbitration errors that left what is greater than question marks, in the fifth week of the league, and when Al-Ahly team faced its opponent, Wadi Degla, the match referee overlooked the calculation of a correct penalty kick in favor of Al-Ahly, who lost two points by drawing him in this match." And in the sixth week of the Ceramica Cleopatra match, the referee canceled a correct goal for Al-Ahly striker Mahmoud Kahraba, and in the eighth week of the Al-Ahly Bank match, the referee canceled a correct goal scored by Ayman Ashraf and Al-Ahly lost two points by tying in this match ... and in the tenth week in the Pyramids match. , The referee canceled a correct goal scored by Walter Bwalia, and did not count a penalty kick in favor of Al-Ahly striker Mohamed Sharif. Al-Ahly lost two points by tying in this match ... The same mistakes were repeated in the Mahalla match.

Al-Ahly added that he made it clear in his speech that he had previously addressed the Egyptian Football Association several times on January 18 and 28, the second of March and April 11 "to investigate the repeated arbitration errors against Al-Ahly, and the need to find a pause about this matter, and establish the principle of justice, and there was no response from Union side. "

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