Egypt Soccer

Egyptian Soccer Season Cancelled In Wake Of Violence

AP | Posted 03.10.2012

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CAIRO -- The Egyptian Football Association has canceled the rest of this season's league matches following rioting at a match last month that killed 7...

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Ultras Call For Retaliation as Parliament Blames Fans And Security for Port Said Deaths

James Dorsey | Posted 04.13.2012

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At least 16 people were killed in the wake of the Port Said incident in six days of fighting between security forces and youths seeking to storm the interior ministry in central Cairo.

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In Egypt, Soccer Is Politics

AP | By HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 04.11.2012

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CAIRO -- Egypt's ruling generals have a new enemy: the legions of angry soccer fans who have injected fervor into recent protests demanding the milita...

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Violence Erupts Following Egyptian Soccer Riot

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL and AYA BATRAWY | Posted 04.04.2012

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CAIRO — Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly socc...

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African Cup Soccer Shadowed By Violence In Egypt

AP | By GERALD IMRAY | Posted 02.02.2012

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FRANCEVILLE, Gabon -- With soccer reeling from the violence in Egypt, players on the other side of the continent at the African Cup of Nations tried t...

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The Soccer Tragedy in Port Said

Maurice Chammah | Posted 04.03.2012

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Maurice Chammah

The SCAF needed a new tactic to let violence that would not immediately be blamed on them to spiral out of control. So, they left it to happen somewhere else, in a soccer stadium in Port Said.

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Dozens Killed In Riot After Egyptian Soccer Match

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 04.02.2012

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CAIRO — At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in the seaside city of Port Said Wednesday follow...

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Soccer Riot Leaves Scores Dead In Egypt

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2012

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CAIRO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city...

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Egyptian Soccer Fans Riot Against Algeria

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) CAIRO — Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an ...

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