Sayed Abdel Hafeez, director of football at Al-Ahly Club, confirmed that the observer of the Sudanese Al-Hilal match refused to cancel the meeting after the riots that occurred, explaining that he had spoken with the observer about these exciting events that started in about 75 minutes when some fans landed on the field when Al-Ahly was ahead Nazif, and the atmosphere flared up after the police and army forces entered the stadium to secure Al-Ahly in a way that turned the stadium of the match into something like a “military barracks”, which is a far cry from football.
“I spoke with the match observer during the hot events and found him telling me that if the match is canceled now, there will be a disaster,” Al-Ahly’s ball director added.
Al-Ahly mission arrived this morning to Cairo coming from Sudan after a tie with Al-Hilal yesterday at the end of the group stage in the African Champions League and Al-Ahmar qualified for the quarter-finals after finishing second in the group with 11 points accompanied by the leading star with 12 points.
Al-Ahly’s match against Al-Hilal Sudanese in the last quarter of the life of the meeting witnessed exciting riots that started throwing bottles on the field to the team players, and the events continued with the descending of some fans on the field, but the security forces chased them as some police dogs appeared in the stadium amid a charged atmosphere as Some Al-Hilal officials took to the stadium to make a security cordon around Al-Ahly players to secure them in these difficult circumstances.
In a statement to the 120-minute program on the Youth and Sports Radio this morning, Sunday, Al-Ahly’s director of football confirmed that Al-Ahly will submit a complete file on the events of this match to the Confederation of African Football “enough” to take a decisive stand against these abuses and not be repeated, explaining that the CAF regulations are clear And explicit in this regard as it states that if the referee is forced to stop the match before the end of the normal time due to storming the stadium or aggression against the visiting team, the host team (the owner of the land) is considered a loser and is excluded from the competition, without prejudice to the existing sanctions in the regulations“.
Syed Abdul Hafeez emphasized that Al-Ahly is ready to face any team in the quarter-finals and does not think about implementing the list and considering Al-Ahmar a winner in order to go up as the first group and avoid certain teams in the quarter-finals, saying, “We demand the implementation of the list because Al-Ahly searches for his rights in the first place and wants to apply Regulations so that the non-footballing scene witnessed yesterday’s match will not be repeated, and Al-Ahly respects all competitors who rose to the quarter-finals and all of them will be strong and candidates to crown the continental title whether they are first or second position in their groups.
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