Violence overshadows Ahly-Esperance African championship match

Fireworks during Esperance’s match against Mouloudia Alger (Source: Tunisia-live.net)

By James M. Dorsey

Two weeks of soccer violence in Egypt and Tunisia overshadow Friday’s African Championship League encounter in Cairo between six-time African champion Al Ahly SC and Esperance Sportive de Tunis.

Al Ahly chairman Hassan Hamdy, in a bid to preempt renewed…