A match between Al Ittihad of Alexandria and Ceramica Cleopatra, in the Egyptian Football League, witnessed an “unfortunate incident” after the Alexandria team’s goalkeeper refused to complete the match and left “Bakya” due to a “mass attack”.
The Alexandria goalkeeper, Ahmed Yahya, conceded five goals, which prompted the fans of the team, nicknamed “the leader of the gap”, to chant against him from the stands of the stadium, according to the website.Egyptian today“.
Al-Ittihad fans launched an angry attack on the players and the technical staff, led by Imad Al-Nahhas, and chanted slogans against them after the fifth goal, according to “AFP”.
A snapshot of the Al-Ittihad goalkeeper of Alexandria collapsing and leaving the field after the Al-Ittihad fans attacked him and received five goals in the Ceramica Cleopatra match pic.twitter.com/jBXrYx70Lq
— ✪ Mohamed El Gazar????♂️???????? (@El_Gazar) July 14, 2022
A quarter of an hour before the end of the match, the goalkeeper entered a “severe crying fit”, refused to complete the match, and demanded his “replacement”, despite the team’s technical attempts to “contain the player”.
Ahmed Yahya’s brother had died, on Wednesday, which angered the goalkeeper, who was in a bad psychological state and refused to get a rest in return for playing the match against Ceramica, before leaving the match stadium in the 80th minute, saying: “By God, I will not play another ball,” according to the website.the seventh day“.
All support for Ahmed Yahya, goalkeeper of the union
May God give you patience, God willing pic.twitter.com/fZ6i4sTiyD— Amr Fahmy Amr Fahmy (@AmrFahmy2007) July 14, 2022
Activists on social media interacted with the incident, expressing their “sympathy and support for the Alexandrian player.”
Ahmed Yahya, Al-Ittihad goalkeeper, leaves the stadium and the technical staff is forced to change it after the fans’ attack ❌
The bench and Ceramica players go to support the goalkeeper ????
Before the start of the match, the two teams observed a minute of silence for the death of Ahmed Yahya’s brother. pic.twitter.com/fLpekMKClS
— Kora Plus (@KoraPlusEG) July 14, 2022
After the attack on him, the “Professional Clubs Association” in Egypt chose Ahmed Yahya to be the “player of the tour”, after “his insistence on playing the match and his prejudice against himself.”
With his insistence on playing the match in order to help his teammates and his prejudice against himself in response to the call of his club, all the support for Al Ittihad goalkeeper Ahmed Yahya, who with his tender was chosen as the player of the round. ????
Keep your head up, Ahmed. ❤️ #Professional_Clubs_Association | #EPL pic.twitter.com/sGqFZ5XTiF– EPL Professional Clubs Association (@epl_eg) July 14, 2022
And she said in a tweet on Twitter, “All support, keep your head up, Ahmed.”