Pyramids denounces FIFA’s penalty against Wadi

Pyramids Club has denounced the sanction issued by the Competitions Committee of the Egyptian Football Association against Mahmoud Wadi, the team’s player, forcing him to suspend 8 games, in addition to a fine of 100,000 Egyptian pounds.

The Competitions Committee decided to expel the player in the team’s match against his counterpart El Entag El Harby on the fifth day of the Premier League, which ended with the Pyramids winning by three goals to two.

Pyramids was surprised by the sanction of the Football Association, noting that the referee wrote in his report, according to which the Competitions Committee had executed the sanction, that the suspension decision was due to the player’s insult to the ruling after that he was sent off for violent play.

The club statement confirmed that upon reviewing the video of Mahmoud Wadi’s ejection shot, the referee, Mahmoud Naji, went to review the shot of the attacker’s confrontation with Al-Entag defender El Harby and made his decision on the existence from a violent game and decided to show the direct red card to the player’s face.

Adding that Wadi, even before Mahmoud Naji declared the card and took it out of his pocket, went directly to the outside of the stadium without objecting to the referee’s decision and not to waste time, especially since the team was two goals behind.

The club was surprised by the apparent injustice of its attacker in the referee’s report, which caused him to stop 8 games and a harsh pecuniary penalty of 100,000 pounds, although the player did not intend to hit without the ball and it was a regular friction in addition to that he did not cross the referee after the final decision and went straight and without objection to the card. Red, which indicates that the referee is suspicious of the player and his club.