Zamalek club officials refused to involve the club in the file of the summit match crisis against the traditional rival Al -Ahly, in the Premier League Football Championship, which was scheduled to be held last Tuesday, and Al -Ahly refused to run it.
The officials of the Egyptian Al -Ahly Club decided not to take place against Zamalek, in protest against the absence of a foreign arbitration team to manage the meeting, after Al -Ahmar asked earlier that there were foreign referees, and he received promises.
The Egyptian Football Association, headed by Hani Abu Raida, decided to support the summit match to referee Mahmoud Bassiouni, which was rejected by the Egyptian Al -Ahly Club’s board of directors and decided not to go to the meeting.
Ahmed Suleiman, a member of the Zamalek Club Board of Directors, said in a special statement: “Zamalek is not a party to the crisis of the summit match, and we are not in dispute with the Al -Ahly administration, and what happened at the summit is the responsibility of the Football Association and the Club League.”
Suleiman added: “Zamalek agreed from the beginning to the presence of a foreign arbitration team, but after the announcement of Mahmoud Bassiouni’s choice as a ruling to meet, we agreed and we did not object, and we only maintain our rights, because the match is our right, the Club Association, and the Football Association are responsible for the problem of arbitration.”
He pointed out that the crisis is currently between the Al -Ahly administration, the League and the Football Association, and the matter must be resolved away from the Zamalek club, and not to enter it as a party to the problem.
