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The Football Federation's Competitions Committee officially announced the postponement of Al Ahli and the Pyramids on February 28, after the Red-Zamalek summit on March 30.

Ahli announced his categorical refusal to change the league match to become a clash between the two teams in the Egyptian Cup qualifiers, a decision of the Council in the coming hours, after Pyramids refused to face Ahli in the league before Ahli and Zamalek do not face each other in league, Opportunities

An official statement of the Football Association:The committee decided to postpone the game between Al Ahli and Pyramids on February 28th to a date after the match between Al Ahli and Zamalek and the three teams (Zamalek, Pyramids and Ahli). According to the order of the matches in the announced table of the contest"He said.

A Football Association source confirmed to FilGoal.com that the QARThis will end the current crisis after the pyramids have refused to play in the current time, and Ahli's decision to refuse to change the showdown to become the Egyptian Cup will be the postponement that will take place after March, after Ahli and Zamalek, to be held on March 30 and will be postponed to the first round.

The source pointed out that Ahli's statement opened the door to an indefinite suspension of the match after he refused to change to become Ahli's face, noting that this decision was the only one that would put end the current crisis between the two clubs.

Al-Ahli released Saturday 8 Fireball resolutions, including the boycott of the Football Federation, the non-participation in the Arab Championships and the filing of a complaint with the CAF, without objection to the organization of matches in the league (see details).

The cause of the crisis

Pyramids has issued an official statement threatening to resort to the International Federation of African Football in case all matches of the first round of the Egyptian Premier League are not finished, and announce the date of the matches of the eighth finals.(Read the statement)

"It's inconceivable for the pyramids to finish their matches with Al Ahly and Al Ahly so far not to play for Zamalek in the first round," said Turki Al-Sheikh, owner of Pyramids and president of the Arab Federation of football.( Read his remarks )

Zamalek then expressed solidarity with Pyramids' claims by refusing to play in league matches before Al Ahly finished his deferred matches.

"Ahly should play every first round match, with the Cup in the round of 16 against Pyramids before the end of the league games,See the details).

Al Ahli issued a statement stating that "the club adheres to its right without prejudice to the performance of its matches in the league championship according to the official table of the competition and with the same parties without modification". (Read the statement)

Al-Sheikh Al-Sheikh, the owner of Pyramids, has issued a letter sent by the club to the African Football Confederation (CA)See the details).

Al Ahli board member Khalid Mortaji attended the Football Federation meeting on Wednesday, according to the agenda sent to all clubs to discuss some issues related to league competition. .

The agenda included two points, the first concerning the stadium change for each club during the coming period due to the establishment of the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt next June.

The organization of the Nations Cup requires the closure of certain stadiums in order to keep them fully equipped before the start of the tournament, which implies the search for clubs for other stadiums during the next league matches.

The second point concerned the upcoming application of the VAR video technique to the championship competition and the study of the clubs' contribution to its implementation.

At a meeting with club representatives, Murtaji discussed the two points mentioned on the agenda before two members of the Egyptian Football Federation discuss the league schedule.

Khalid Murtaji refused to discuss this issue from the beginning until the statement of Ahli's board of directors, who stressed the club's commitment to organize matches according to schedule until March 30 and not to harm it.

Mohamed Maselhi, President of the Alexandria Union, and the representative of the Al-Ahli Club, also expressed their solidarity in the absence of a point of discussion on the amendments to the Egyptian league table entered on the agenda of the clubs.

Then, the president of Zamalek was present as a representative of his club before Khaled Murtaji stresses that this is contrary to the decision of the African Union that prohibits him from practicing any sport related to football.

On 30 September, the African Union Discipline Committee decided to suspend the president of Zamalek for one year and to ban him from all activities related to football on the administrative and sporting level and to impose a fine on him. 40,000 euros.

After that, the duo went into Khaled Murtaji and Zamalek's president in a heated debate in which the representative of Al-Abyad expressed his anger at Ahli's speech stating, "I am who does not have the honor of being with you. "

In the end, Khalid Murtaji decided to withdraw from the meeting because of his illegality, according to the AU decision.

FilGoal.com has learned that the club's chairman, Mahmoud Al-Khatib, was upset by the events of the club meeting, especially the attack of the president of Zamalek against the representative of Al-Ahli during the meeting, Khaled Mortaji. (See details)

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