Military-backed house cleaning extends to Egyptian soccer

From The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer Tue Mar 25 2014, 22:27:35

Outgoing Al Ahli chairman Hassan Hamdi suspected of corruption

By James M. Dorsey

Efforts by Egypt's military-backed government to clean the country not only of its political critics but also of businessmen with close ties to ousted President Hosni Mubarak extended into soccer this week with the arrest on corruption charges of Hassan Hamdi, the longstanding chairman of. Al Ahli's SC, Africa's most crowned and popular club.

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