Chairman of Zamalek Interim Committee Contracts Coronavirus

Chairman of Zamalek's interim Committee Consular Ahmed Bakry tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday and he was hospitalised.

Bakry was appointed by the Egyptian ministry of youth and sports to manage the interim committee of the White Knights in the last month.

According to our sources, Bakry contracted the respiratory disease and he has been taken to hospital and has been put into isolation.

It is worth mentioning that Zamalek are set to face off Mokwaloon in the first round of the Egyptian League later on today.

On November 29, the ministry of youth and sports suspended on Sunday Zamalek’s board of directors due to financial violations.

In a statement, the ministry said that the the current board of directors will be temporarily excluded till the conclusion of the public prosecution investigations.

The decision is based on the conclusion reached by the financial and administrative inspection committee assigned by the Egyptian ministry to examine several financial and administrative violations.

The Decision is as follows:

1. Financial violations in committee report referred to public prosecution,

2. Zamalek’s board of directors, executive manager, and financial director will be temporarily suspended from managing club affairs until conclusion of the public prosecution investigations,

3. Youth and Sports committee in Giza will run the club affairs, form an interim committee to run the club affairs, selecting executive director, who will be added to the committee.