Wrote:
Hossam Zayed:
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Friday 6 November 2020
09:24 PM
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Hisham Nasr, Chairman of the Egyptian Handball Federation, spoke about the crisis of the two rounds of determining the champions of the last season’s league, scheduled for next Thursday and Friday, after Al-Ahly submitted an official memorandum to the federation requesting that the two rounds be played in the list of the new season or postponed until the end of the first phase of the new league.
The Hand Union had announced the play of the two rounds in the list last season after polling the International Federation in this matter, where Al-Ahly meets with Tala’a Al-Jaysh and Zamalek with Sporting Thursday, then Al-Ahly with Zamalek at the end of the Friday League, and Zamalek tops the standings with 34 points, and Al-Ahly comes second with a score 32 points, and Al-Jaysh third with 30 points, and in the event that Al-Ahly and Zamalek win on Thursday, Al-Ahly will have two chances to win the professional league, winning or drawing in the summit match, while Al-Ahly will be required to win only to preserve their chances of reaching a decisive match.
Hisham Nasr said in a statement to “Yalla Koura”: “Everyone knows that this season is exceptional due to the Corona virus and the subsequent interruption in sports activity that lasted for more than 5 months, and when the federation settled on completing the old league after the start of the new league for the sake of the national team.” We have already decided to play the remaining two rounds with the new list, something that has already happened in Europe. “
Nasr added: “After that, we received objections from Zamalek, Al-Jaysh and Sporting clubs to play in the new list. The three demand that the competition be completed with the same old list, which prompted us to seek the opinion of the International Federation on this matter.”
The head of the Hand Union stated: “We received the International Federation’s fatwa that it is not permissible to complete the league with the new list, because the relegation matches are held with the old lists, and therefore it is not permissible to play the relegation matches with a system and determine the champion of the same season with another system, while in Europe all clubs played in the new lists, whether to determine the two relegates Or the champion of the league, and therefore we announced the play of the two rounds with the old lists, with any number of youth teams allowed to escalate.
Nasr continued: “We received a letter hours ago from Al-Ahly objecting to playing on the old list because a number of its players have left during the new contract period, and asking to play on the new list or postponing to the end of the first phase of the new league until a number of the youth team’s members agree with the first team before playing. The last two rounds. “
Regarding the position of the last two rounds, Nasr said: “So far the two rounds are on schedule Thursday and Friday, and we will study the situation in the coming hours after the completion of the regular general assembly Saturday, and we will announce our position in which the national team and clubs are in favor, because the team is linked to a program of preparation for the men’s world championship that it hosts. Egypt next January, and there is no other opportunity to postpone the two rounds at the present time. “
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