"Kahraba Suspended for 12 Matches and Fined 1 Million Pounds: Disciplinary Committee's Decision and Club's Reactions"

2023-04-18 16:16:44

The head of the Disciplinary Committee of the Egyptian Football Association, Izzat Khamis Al-Ahly, officially notified, on Tuesday, that his attacker, Mahmoud Abdel Moneim “Kahraba”, was suspended for 12 matches and fined him one million pounds, to be paid within a month, on the background of the Zamalek club’s complaint against him because of offensive chants towards his fans after the El Clasico in the fourteenth stage last January.
The Disciplinary Committee also decided to punish the president of Zamalek club, Mortada Mansour, by preventing him from attending any matches for a period of two months and fining him 300,000 pounds, in response to the Al-Ahly club’s complaint against him because of the insulting statements to Kahraba and Al-Ahly Club.
“Kahraba was suspended for 12 matches, and it is natural that the Grievance Committee is not aware of the decision, because the aggrieved party has not submitted any appeal so far,” the head of the Disciplinary Committee said in a press statement.
He added, “In the affected Egyptian law, he submits a grievance against the decision as soon as he is informed of it within 10 days from the date of the decision’s issuance, and in the event of an appeal against the decision, the penalty remains valid until the matter is decided and an official decision is issued, whether to reduce the penalty, keep it as it is, or cancel it.”
He stressed that the decision to stop Kahraba prevents him from playing the local super match that will be held on the fifth of next May in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, and any match organized by the Egyptian Football Association.
The head of the Grievances Committee, Adel Al-Shorbagy, announced on Monday in televised statements that the committee had not yet received any decision from the Egyptian Football Association regarding stopping Kahraba.
He added that if a decision to suspend the player is reached, the latter has the right to complain, and at that time the implementation of the suspension decision will be stopped until the grievance is decided.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, Al-Ahly’s board of directors will hold an emergency meeting to respond to Kahraba’s punishment, and news from within the club indicated that there is a tendency to take a decision to withdraw from the local super match against Zamalek.