Hassan Mustafa: This is the fact that “Mubarak” asked me to miss the France match.

Dr. Hassan Mostafa, president of the International Handball Federation, confirmed that he had made no statements about the late former president Hosni Mubarak that he had asked him to miss a match against France in the World Championship.

He added, during the televised comments on the “Honorable Citizen” program: “The conversation was completely distorted and President Mubarak did not contact me to miss France’s match at the World Championship. France strongly won the match, and During the final match there was a conversation between me and French President Jacques Chirac and he confirmed it to me, I expected Egypt to win this match because the first part had ended with the advance of the pharaohs, but France won at the end of the match.

He continued: “Chirac told me that he knows President Mubarak very well, and that he is a personal friend of him and a large number of Egyptians, and he met him when he was Vice President Mohamed Anwar Sadat. There was a joke in the conversation and I told him that President Mubarak asked me to win France, and that was like a joke. And because I never met President Mubarak during that period.

He concluded: “When I returned to Egypt there was a meeting with President Mubarak, and I told him the details of the conversation that happened with Chirac and he laughed a lot, and I told him what happened alone, but the conversation was distorted that I said that the President Mubarak asked for that, but I mentioned that incident of To give Egyptian players a moral boost before the World Championship, and that Egypt always offers very important matches.