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Remember the FA fire in 2013? And the disappearance of some funds and documents from them until the Union sponsorship contract? Some of these possessions have not yet returned, and the 2010 edition of the Nations Cup that stayed with the Egyptian team does not exist. So what happened?
FilGoal.com reveals to you through the following report what exactly happened and how the five-member committee discovered the disappearance of the original copy of the Nations Cup that was left with the team, as well as a number of other acquisitions.
Walid Al-Attar, Executive Director of the Football Association, told FilGoal.com: “The five-year committee recently began a comprehensive renovation process at the entrance of the federation to do so in the form of a huge museum that includes mugs, gifts and titles that the federation has acquired throughout its history, before the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the federation “.
And he continued: “After an inventory of the stores to put the glasses, he was surprised that there were not a large number of glasses, medals, swords and shields, and their place of disappearance was not fixed, and they disappeared in earlier times and for a long time. time and nobody knows its location ”.
He added: “There is nothing in Federation stores except the original 1986 Nations Cup and two non-original copies of the 2006 and 2008 Africa Cups, and there is nothing else in the Federation with the disappearance of various shields and presents”.
During the month of March 2013, a fire broke out in the Egyptian Football Association and it was said that 3 Federation cups were stolen, along with documents and other belongings.
Three years later, in June 2016, FIFA officials found the contract of the former sponsoring company headed by Amr Afifi, after three years of disappearance since the fire. How about the cups?
Hamada Al-Masry, a member of the former Football Association board of directors, who was present at the time of the fire and the disappearance of the cups, told FilGoal.com, saying: “When the building of the Federation and the cups disappeared, I contacted a person named Youssef Othman, a member of the board of directors of the Suez national team and at the same time a member of the Egyptian Football Association. Registered with the Football Association, whom I told him that there are things that have disappeared from the Football Association and we want them ”.
He continued: “Youssef Othman managed to recover those 3 cups and returned them to Hamada Al-Masry.”
He continued: “I handed it over to Tharwat Sweilem, the former executive director of the Football Association.”
How did the five-year committee act after discovering the disappearance of the stocks and the 2010 edition that was kept by Egypt forever?
Walid Al-Attar responds to FilGoal.com, saying: “An investigation has been opened with the stores and accounts departments, to find out the fate of these glasses and shields, since it has been proven that there were thefts in previous times, but there is no verified what was stolen and what was returned with official papers “.
He continued: “The five-year committee seeks to come to an understanding of what was stolen and to account for those stolen items to communicate with security and bring them back, especially as they represent great historical value for the Egyptian Football Association.”
What about the 2010 version?
A source from the Football Association told FilGoal.com: “It is proven that there is one of the cups with Ahmed Hassan, the leader of the pharaohs, but without official papers within the federation, with his confirmation of the return of the copy. some time ago for Tharwat Suwailem and Azmi Mujahid. “
He continued: “We are currently communicating with them to find out the location of the 2010 Nations Cup.”
He continued: “There is a previous report from the board of directors confirming the theft of collectibles and glasses in the Union fire, but it is not proven which were stolen, and therefore we are trying to get to limit them and treat the matter in a professional”.
