The book “Al-Ahly Personalities and Stories” was recently published, by sports historian and journalist Saeed Wahba, by “Nefertiti Publishing, Studies and Translation” House, in which Wahba recalls his sports memory, with a group of rare legendary Al-Ahly figures and its major stars, who contributed to… Building Al-Ahly Castle over the course of 117 years, they established its principles, wrote its history, contributed to creating its championships and instilling its constants, and enshrined its value and place in the Egyptian mind and collective conscience, until it became one of Egypt’s national castles, its educational institutions, and a standard mark of quality, and until it became the most important institution. Sports in Egypt and Africa.
The characters that Saeed Wahba deals with through the book, he met and knew them, and he had relations of friendship and love with them, and differences of viewpoints, during his work in sports journalism over a period of 55 years. He interacted with some of them, got close to others, and befriended others, from During his presence at Al-Ahly Club for many years, he worked in sports journalism, whether as a delegate for the “Al-Jumhuriya” newspaper. From the late sixties, until after the mid-seventies, or a sports critic, referred to as Lebanon, when Al-Ahly Park was a meeting place for athletes, pundits and leaders, and a forum for old stars and dignitaries, some of whom played a role in political life, and some of whom founded the largest Egyptian base for the national economy. In the face of foreign monopolies, the book also reviews many forgotten sports figures, such as Dr. Muhammad Taher Pasha, the first Egyptian member of the International Olympic Committee (1934-1960), the founder of the White Sea Games, and the second founder of the Egyptian sports movement, and he has a story, the day the British authorities arrested him. He was placed in one of the British army camps west of the canal, due to his cooperation with the German forces, which were preparing to confront the English army in the Battle of El Alamein, and to rid Egypt of the British occupation, and behind him in the International Olympic Committee, engineer Ahmed Al-Demerdash Tony, the gymnastics champion who remained a member of the International Olympic Committee. 32 years old, as well as Abdel Moneim Wehbe, captain of the first Al-Ahly basketball team in the early 1930s, who served as president of the International Basketball Federation for two terms, from 1968 to 1976, and Dr. Hassan Mustafa, captain of Al-Ahly in the 1970s.
In the book, there is a rediscovery of legendary football figures, such as Al-Dhazawi, the leader of the Al-Harifa tribes, who failed the coaches’ exam in the Football Association, and the son of the city of Damietta, “Boy Al-Najjar.” Rifaat Al-Fanahili, who dropped out of primary school and joined a furniture carpentry workshop, in order to support his five daughters after his father lost his sight, in addition to the stories of many Ahly figures, including a forgotten story of Dr. Nour El-Din Tarraf, who was one of the honorary presidents and head of the Council of Elders. Al-Ahly Club, and the president of the Red Castle, who bandaged Al-Ahly’s wounds, restored its respect, and restored its victories, after the lean years of drought in the sixties.
Lieutenant General Abdul Mohsen Kamel Murtaji, and a story about Saleh Slim’s overwhelming popularity, which reached the point of threatening critic Najib Al-Mestakawi with death and the kidnapping of his children, because of an article in which he called on Saleh Slim to retire from football!< /span>
And the story of the retirement of Mukhtar Al-Tatch, the legend of football, in the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, and when he announced his retirement, Kawkab Al-Sharq threatened Umm Kulthum to retire from singing, unless Mukhtar Al-Tatch retracted his decision to retire, and many stories and positions with many of Al-Ahly’s stars, such as , Jaafar Pasha and the generation of giants, the chief builder Omar Lutfi, General Mahmoud, Hassan Hamdi, Abdo Saleh Al-Wahsh, Tariq Salim, Adel Heikal, the deal engineer Adly Al-Qai’i, and others, and many stories and characters from Al-Ahly’s history, spun with great skill by the writer Saeed Wahba, between the recordings. And realistic, inspired by the spirit of the championships that Al-Ahly achieved throughout its history and the personalities that influenced and influenced throughout this history.
