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Zamalek fans invade pitch, match abandoned

Apr 03, 2011 at 08:50
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Zamalek supporters invaded the pitch during their team's African Champions League clash with Tunisia's Club Africain on Saturday causing the game to be abandoned.

Zamalek were winning 2-1 when the Egyptian side's third goal was ruled out, angering the home fans who took over the pitch and forced the Algerian referee to leave.

It was the second leg of the round of 32 tie. Club Africain beat Zamalek 4-2 in the first leg.

An Egyptian official in the ministry of health said nine people were injured in the incident, according to the state news agency MENA. He did not give their nationalities.



The incident revived the soccer tension between Egypt and Algeria of the recent past.

Algeria and Egypt had a diplomatic row late in 2009 over an ill-tempered qualification match for the World Cup.

Both sides traded accusations about crowd violence and intimidation and Cairo withdrew its ambassador from Algiers.

(Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Ken Ferris; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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Ahmed  | 
Apr 05, 2011 at 04:16
As an egyptian man i say sorry for all but that is something weird in our stadiums ..we only used to see this aggression in algerian stadiums not ours..sorry for tunisie and anyone think to insult egyptian people i tell him go and f urself
marlyn omar  | 
Apr 05, 2011 at 02:16
if you can see this what happen for this match , what do you think, what happen to the egyptian people, they late the other people to broke there unity
marlyn omar  | 
Apr 05, 2011 at 02:00
people has know only there self, they dont know to help the other. i think the egyptian people is to much

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