Egyptian military uses soccer ban to undermine ultras

Port Said continues to haunt the military and soccer
By James M. Dorsey
Egypt’s military rulers are employing a security-inspired sustained ban on professional soccer as a tool to undermine radical, highly-politicized and street battle-hardened soccer fans who have emerged as the North African country’s most militant opponents of the armed force’s grip on…
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