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| CAIRO (AP) Egypt's interim government has canceled the national cup competition, ending all soccer in the country this season. |
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| CAIRO (AP) Fans charged in Egypt's deadliest soccer riot declared their innocence in the first session of their trial Tuesday, directing their anger toward police, charged with collaborating in the killing of 75 supporters of a rival team. |
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| CAIRO - The Egyptian Football Association has cancelled the rest of this season's league matches in the wake of rioting at a match last month that killed 74 people and injured hundreds of others. |
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| Egypt's ruling generals have a new enemy: the legions of angry soccer fans who have injected fervor into recent protests demanding the military step down and battled police for days in the streets of Cairo. Known as Ultras and long viewed as hooligans, they have grown increasingly political, starting with last year's uprising, and were pushed over the edge by the deadly riots at a soccer... |
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| FIFA is giving $250,000 in aid to the families of the victims of last week's soccer melee in Egypt. FIFA says it will give the money to a charitable account opened by the Al-Ahly club. Fans of the Cairo club were among more than 70 people who died in a violent rampage and stampede after a league match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in Port Said. |
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| FIFA are to donate $250,000 to the
families of the victims of last week's Egyptian stadium disaster
in which 74 people were killed after violence flared at a soccer
match in Port Said between al-Masry and Cairo-based Al Ahli.
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| FIFA President Sepp Blatter has criticized the dismissal of Egypt's federation leaders, calling the move "direct interference" by the Cairo government in soccer matters. Blatter says he will seek to have the officials reinstated. Blatter spoke Sunday in the Paraguay capital, where he attended a special congress of South American soccer officials aimed at toughening up rules against... |
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| FIFA President Joseph Blatter has criticized the dismissal of Egypt's football federation leaders, calling the move "direct interference" by the Cairo government in football matters. Blatter says he will seek to have the officials reinstated. Blatter spoke Sunday in the Paraguay capital, where he attended a special congress of South American football officials aimed at toughening up... |
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| FIFA will take steps to
reinstate Egypt's Football Association (EFA), suspended by Cairo
after 74 people died in violence at a match in Port Said, FIFA
chief Sepp Blatter said on Sunday.
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| Egypt's football association says it has informed the Confederation of African Football that it cannot host an Olympic qualifying tournament because of a surge in violence in Cairo. EFA official Azmy Mejahed tells The Associated Press on Monday that the federation has apologized to CAF after it was told by Egyptian authorities that it could not host the matches because of security concerns. |
