Sunday 06/July/2025 – 09:51 PM
Ashraf Qassem, the star of Zamalek and the former Egyptian team, expressed his dissatisfaction with the way the player Ahmed Mustafa Zizou’s file was managed inside the White Castle, stressing that the club lost one of its most prominent players without financial benefit, in light of the weak ability to meet the player’s material requests.
Ashraf Qassem’s statements
Ashraf Qasim said, during television comments, that the delay in Zamalek in resolving the Zizou file was a clear administrative mistake, adding: It was supposed to negotiate with Zizou before the end of his contract for a full year, and not only in the last 6 months, this file should have been decided early.
He added: At the same time, I see that Zizou was not clear with the Zamalek administration, and it was better to announce his position in front of the masses clearly, whether by continuing or leaving.
He continued: I preferred to be sold at the time, because the club did not have the financial ability to renew its contract with the conditions he requested, and therefore it was better to achieve a financial benefit instead of his departure for free.
He concluded: The player moved to the team that he wanted to play from from the beginning, and Zamalek lost an important player for free.
In another context, Ashraf Qasim said that he had received an offer in 1987 to go through the acting experience, but he rejected the idea after reading the first scene in the scenario, saying: In the generation, I used to see that Magdy Abdel -Ghani could be a strong actor, he would have the role of the personal goalkeeper (Body Gard), because he was the owner of a strong personality and a great player, and I was drawing my strength from him on the field.
Qasim concluded: Taha Basri was my role model, he supervised my training in the junior sector, alongside Captain Hamada Al -Sharqawi – may God have mercy on him – whose talk was always with me, and he was linking the success of man and his behaviors outside the stadium, and this was very affected by me.
