Egypt’s Zamalek suffered a 1-3 defeat against Morocco’s Wydad in the African Champions League match on Saturday evening.
With that loss, Zamalek took third place in Group D of the African Champions League with two points, from a loss against Moroccan Wydad and two draws against Sagrada and Petro Atletico of Angolans.
Immediately after the defeat, Mansour’s statements went in all directions, and attacked the players and French coach Patrice Carteron, describing him as “he did not fear God in choosing the formation and the team’s changes.”
Wholesale penalties
Immediately after the end of the confrontation between Zamalek and Moroccan Wydad, Mortada Mansour announced wholesale sanctions against the players of the white team and the technical staff led by French coach Patrice Carteron.
The president of the White Club issued a statement on his official page on the social networking site “Facebook”, saying, “Counsellor Mortada Mansour, president of the Zamalek club, decided to exclude Medhat Abdel Hadi, the general coach, and Amir Azmy, the assistant coach, from the technical staff of the club’s first football team.”
And Mortada Mansour’s statement continued, “The club’s president’s decision comes due to the misconduct of the two, and Counselor Mortada Mansour decided to refer coach Patrice Carteron for investigation upon his return to Cairo.”
And the statement of the head of the Zamalek statement concluded, “At the same time, the president of Zamalek decided to stop all the dues of the players and the technical, administrative and medical staff after the loss from Moroccan Wydad in the third round of the group stage matches.”
Audio recording and investigation
Mansour announced the opening of a full investigation into Cartieron, due to the defeat, and said in statements after the match: “Carteron did not fear God in the formation or changes. Wydad did not attend the match in the second half. Is it mentioned in the Qur’an that the changes must be after the sixtieth minute?”
He continued, “The first question for Carteron in the investigation will be: Do you want to continue with us? It seems that he does not want to continue in this way because your mistakes were repeated. You lost from Smouha and stumbled in Angola, you are a man who does not want to fear God, and one of them forces you to do this in the team. Some players do not deserve to participate. Or they play in positions other than theirs, and yet you insist on your opinion.”
Mortada continued, “Some players fought, and others did not attend. I went back a month ago and found this coach and these players. If you want to measure the strength of any team, it is from the strength of the bench. The previous committee sold Hussein Faisal, Osama Faisal, Muhammad Sobhi, Hamid Haddad and many players And you know that shackles are forbidden.”
He continued, “We received a (destroyed) house, and we are trying to repair it. Debts in the millions and players who have not received their salaries for six months.”
And Mortada set off a surprise, “I have an audio recording of Patrice Carteron who wanted to send it to his agent saying that I will make you leave after agreeing with a Saudi team, but he sent it to Amir Mortada by mistake instead of his agent. With this recording, I can stop it.”
And he continued: “The penalty clause? I will not waste the team because of my penalty clause, and with this audio recording there is no penalty clause, and if it is necessary to pay the penalty clause out of my pocket, I agree.”