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Tensions between Egyptian soccer fans and players mount over politics and violence

Tensions between Egyptian soccer fans and players mount over politics and violence

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Jun 13, 2011
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Former Egyptian national soccer team coach Hassan Shehata was accused of having supported ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s regime. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA







Top Egyptian soccer players are hitting back at their militant fans four months after relations between the two soured over a refusal by most players to join the mass anti-government p…

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