First, The Mail & Guardian, a weekly newspaper in South Africa reported that some members of the Egyptian football team–who play the United States this afternoon in their final match of the first round of the Confederations Cup–had about $2,400 stolen by thieves from their Johannesburg hotel rooms.
This was bad news for the local organizers who were already facing questions about how it would keep players and fans safe during next year’s World Cup in a country with a high crime and murder rate.
The details were vague and a team representative blamed the players: “We are disappointed, but it’s their own fault. There are safes, but they left the money outside. It’s over now. This can happen anywhere. This will not spoil our experience. We are focusing on the tournament and the South Africans are supporting us as though we are their national team.”
Today a Johannesburg tabloid newspaper, Sunday World, reported that police had a different theory: “… some of the Egyptian players brought hookers to their hotel to celebrate their historic win against world champions Italy on Thursday night.”
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3 replies on “Who robbed the Egyptian players?”
CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP.
Don’t propagate this utter lie. The South African police has always been a failure in their service, and security wreaks with corruption. The money stolen is close to $20,000. This is a huge blow to South African police only one year before the World Cup Finals, and they are lying out of their mouths to cover up their failure to provide protection to the players.
Egypt is different than the US and other European countries. Prostitutes and the whole sex industry is virtually non-existent when compared to those countries. Egyptian players pray 5 times a day and are extremely religious. They are threatening to stop playing internationally till a formal apology is issued from the Egyptian news outlets that reported this UTTER LIE.
Talk about the tactical mistakes and the horrible lineup of the Egyptian team on the field, but don’t propagate a lie about their reputation that is nothing more than a lie by the SA police to save their sorry corrupted system.
All that for a football game!!! Robbery , and then South African police acuse the Egyptian (Muslim) football team players of committing adultery!!!!
A very good plan to distract the Egyptian team!!, that worked guys!!,,, Egyptian team players were there on court with US players like dizzy checkens…
If it comes to loosing a football game, I’d say “HELL WITH IT”, But when it comes to accusing Muslim players of a huge sin like “Adultry” I’d say “HELL WITH THE ENTIRE STUPID FOOTBALL GAME”.
Thanks,
Palestinian and Muslim 4 ever.
there is no evedince for the hockers story
the south african police officer said ( we heard that )
did he accuse egyptian players on hearing only ?
how come while evedince is the only way to prove that
above all that brazilian team had been robbered also
are they going to be accused by hockers also or another fake story ?