The appointment of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Dr. Imad Al-Banani as executive director of Zamalek sparked a wide controversy on social media platforms, after the club's fans rejected the presence of Al-Banani led by their club, accusing him of being loyal to their historical rival Al-Ahly.
Videos - presented by the "Networks" program on 2023/8/29 - showed hundreds of "Zamalek" fans organizing protest vigils in front of their club's headquarters, demanding the departure of Al-Banani, and launched slogans such as "Al-Ahlawi by land" and "Leave" and went - in their slogans - to make accusations that the appointment of Al-Banani to succeed Major General Hassan Moussa came out of a desire to cover "corruption".
In the context of their campaign to reject the appointment of Banani, fans of "Zamalek" re-reviewed his old posts appear in one of them on the channel Al-Ahly, and previous posts of him in which he talked about Zamalek's loss to Wadi Degla.
Did not succeed Banani – so far – absorb the anger of the fans of Zamalek, despite his assertion not aligned with any of the poles of Egyptian football, and standing at the same distance from them, and did not intercede for his achievements after a week of taking office to gain the satisfaction of the fans of "white", most notably the payment of 4.5 million pounds to the club, and seek to reduce its debt from 1.2 billion pounds to 40 million installments over two years.
Fury on theplatforms
And reached the anger of Zamalek fans on the appointment of Banani to the platforms of communication in which they expressed their rejection of the decision, and in this context came the tweet of activist Mohammed Lasheen, who described the decision as a provocative choice and said, "Frankly the appointment of Imad Banani summit in provocation . and disregard for people's feelings."
On the other hand, Alaa Mahmoud was surprised by the reaction of the Zamalek audience, and said in a tweet to him, "I mean, it is Zamalkawi when he caught the work of eh, what is the club emptied and looted every need and when Tzng in speech says you worked swimming pools."
In the same context, activist Mohamed Moataz wrote a tweet in which he said, "Ok, what is the essence was Ahlawia and roamed the Super Cup. Why did you accept it? Is Zamalek absent from his birth?"
But Wael – a fan of Ahli – justified the anger of Zamalek fans of the decision to appoint Banani and wrote, "I as Ahlawi rejected the idea for many reasons, Zamalek his children first by him and cadres can infringe the boat to safety."
Tweeter Radwan Nabil questioned the reason for Moussa's departure in the first place, saying, "Forget about the Lebanese. They originally walked for me, the respectable man Hassan Moussa, I want to be a man who comes out and says he walked on the basis of eh?!"
General Moussa had revealed in a Facebook post that he was surprised by the decision to replace him and said: "I did not spare our club any effort. But it seems that this continuous work for the benefit of the club did not like some, especially in light of the presence of many thorny files, a large part of which has been resolved during this short period."
For its part, the Ministry of Sports justified the appointment of Banani with his long experience in the field of sports management, and because he held several positions in the ministry and was president of the National Council for Sports for All, and to prevent any attempt to invalidate the Zamalek elections, which were delayed.