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Cairo player suspended for political gesture
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Egypt’s Al-Ahly club on Tuesday suspended forward Ahmed Abdel Zaher from next month’s FIFA Club World Cup for celebrating a goal with a salute in support of Islamists.
Al-Ahly said it would also sell the 28-year-old at the end of the season and deprive him of prize money from the Cairo club’s victory on Sunday in the final of the African Champions League.
Abdel Zaher held up four fingers when he scored Al-Ahly’s second goal in the 4-0 win over South Africa’s Orlando Pirates. The four-finger salute has been adopted by supporters of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who was overthrown by the army on July 3.
The player has apologized to fans for the political stunt, and said in a statement that he would be willing to accept whatever punishment the club metes out.
Several hundred supporters marched to his house in Cairo in a show of solidarity. Abdel Zaher appeared on his window and again flashed the salute.
Al-Ahly also fined star player Mohamed Aboutrika, another Morsi supporter, 50,000 Egyptian pounds (about US$7,200) for not showing up to receive his medal from the sports minister. Aboutrika had gone to his locker for a T-shirt with 72 on it in reference to the number of people killed in a February 2012 stadium riot.
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