A campaign against Mortada Mansour and his son for a technical director who worked in Israel

Social media in Egypt were furious Friday with angry reactions to reports that Zamalek is considering appointing Serbian Alexander Stanovic as technical director.

He justified the angry reaction provoked by a workstation included in Stanovic's biography, when he was previously the technical director of the "Maccabi Haifa" team in Israel.

Although the Serbian coach worked with Maccabi Haifa for just a few months, this did not lessen the angry outburst that swept the social media and particularly affected the club's president, Mortada Mansour, and his son, Amir, general supervisor of the club football team.

The anger provoked by this decision amounted to the indictment of "use in Israel" of Murtaza and Amir.

Mayar Abdallah wrote: "Mortada and his son sold out, O. Zamalek's group is old and will not be a place for the Israelis.We are a club of patriotism and dignity.There is no place for you and your son or for the coach who lives … Long live Palestine. "

Mohamed Habib commented: "How to meet oneself? Answer a coach who was still Bedrb in Israel and Jay Ayesh, the role of patriotism."

For those whose opinions were less severe, they only described Murtaza and his son as "failures".

Others have deliberately recalled the privileged relations between Zamalek and the Palestinian cause.

Among them, Mohamed Ibrahim, who wrote: "The profits of Murtaza, I mean, my man has the sense of blood, you want to destroy the club in every way."

On the other hand, others felt that Zamalek supporters and those who accused Murtaza and his son of committing work exaggerated their rejection and rejection of the decision.

One user wrote: "Morteza has many disadvantages, he and his children, and insulted the Zamalek club and its symbols, but I reject this abusive hashtag # Ahlawy."

"There is nothing official up to now and we are negotiating with another coach to sign it," Murtaza Mansour said in his latest comments on the contract.

This contrasts with recent statements that he was "agreeing with Stanovic on all matters and that he is scheduled to arrive in Cairo on Friday night".

Other reasons

For his part, sports critic Ahmed Yamani confirmed the announcement of the appointment of Serbian Stanovic to the post of technical director of Zamalek, adding that this would come after negotiations led by the club with five other candidates, including the president. Argentine Ramon Diaz, who had worked with Al Hilal.

In his interview with the BBC, Yamani said Stanovic was not a good technical director. His field experience has not exceeded 14 years in which he has worked with 16 or 17 clubs and has not spent more than two years in a club. During his career, he has only won two Serie A tournaments, leaving him without the aspirations of Zamalek fans.

He also referred to the reservation regarding his work with Maccabi Haifa in 2014 and 2015 for only six or seven months, which is not long, but it seems hard to ignore by club fans .

However, one of the serious obstacles to Yamani's opinion, which could prevent him from continuing to occupy his new position, lies in the interventions and the overstepping of the powers of the club's management and its president, as it was already the case. case for former coaches.

Yamani noted that the club was struggling to recruit more effective technical managers than the new manager because of these previous experiences, where they had received warnings urging them to refuse to sign a contract with the club.

He denied that the financial aspect was a real factor in the inability to attract more professional officials than Stanovic, who would receive a salary that would be acceptable to any other manager if nothing feared a possible intervention. from the club management. The experience of former club leaders demonstrates the potential for future interventions.