Zamalek and the National Bank
At the opening of Zamalek’s matches in the league, the referee counted Muhammad Adel A controversial penalty kick enabled Zamalek to score 3 points from the National Bank, in the match that was held at Al Salam Stadium.
The situation was accompanied by a storm of controversy after one of the channels leaked what it said was the text of the conversation that took place between referee Mohamed Adel and the mouse room, in which the referee expressed his dissatisfaction with the penalty kick, and then the surprise was when he returned to the field to award it.
After the leak, referee Mohamed Adel, who officiated the match between Zamalek and National Bank, was subjected to investigation by the Legal Committee of the Referees Committee.
The leak caused widespread anger, and referee Mohamed Adel went to court, accusing the program he broadcast of falsifying part of the text of the conversation, in addition to confirming that there were attempts to destroy his professional future.
As for the Egyptian Clubs Association, it demanded in an official letter addressed to: Egyptian Football AssociationBy dismissing the current refereeing committee and appointing a foreign arbitration expert to supervise the administration of arbitration in Egypt.
As he entered Al-Ahly On the crisis line, he demanded that arbitration in Egypt be assigned to a foreign expert, stressing that “the arbitration signs witnessed in the first round of the competition do not cause optimism.”
The Egyptian Federation, in return, opened an investigation into the incident and dismissed the referees’ committee it led Ibrahim Nour El-Din And an eye Yasser Abdel Raouf To manage the committee.
Al-Ahly and Zad
In the second case, the failure to award a penalty kick in the final meters of the match was a decisive factor in the end of the match between Al-Ahly and Club Z, which was held at the stadium. Arab Contractors Al-Ahly won with an unanswered goal and three points added to its tally in the way of defending the league title.
Coach rose up Increase Magdy Abdel Aty strongly objected to the situation, and his wave of anger caused him to be shown a red card in the last minutes of the match.
After the match, Abdel Ati said that he was expelled because he asked the referee to return to the video technology to confirm the situation, indicating that what was raised due to the arbitration would affect clubs that do not have public support, stressing that the referee wasted the efforts of his players.
The Egyptian League witnessed a very faltering start amid public anger over the performance of the arbitration system, which came under fire, and was accused of showing favoritism to specific clubs, which made some call for the establishment of a mechanism that would make this system work efficiently and aim to achieve justice without regard to the name of the club that is playing or making prejudiced considerations. By the principle of justice.
