In Egypt, the revolution has just really started. Ambitious democracy friends fight, want to see heads roll. Far above, the big bosses of the football leagues, once loyal supporters of Mubarak's are on the list.

What do football if stuck a whole country in a revolution? To play no football, anyway. In Egypt, there were three options to choose from. First, The players fled abroad there any upcoming games at rest to prepare for. Option two: You have revolted with. And option three: you were open on the side of Mubarak and fought the revolutionary. One may think himself at this point, people have to do ever better during a decisive hour of fate, as in a football stadium to go. There, the games failed just once as in Germany the school has climbed 30 degrees in the summer, when the thermometer once long-awaited over the.

Mubarak's marketing spectacle

The hypocritical justification in Egypt the revolution may have been to put the Egyptian Premier League in early February. Later, when the first qualifiers for the stood African Cup in March, they took the poor condition of the players as the reason to move the games. The true motivation was much simpler: fear. If the ball is rolling in Egypt, it is not just about football. It is also politics. All pages use the stage of football in their very own way. For the dictator, a game was a pure marketing spectacle.

In the normality of football have always sunbathed the heads of State, gave themselves naturally as cosmopolitan ruler of a satisfied people. » Look forth prefer West, we are like you. Also here 22 sweaty men of a round ball Chase, again hold banners in the amount of fans and cheer when flying the ball into the goal. " The West has seen this always benevolent and smiling back waved. «That one sometimes also on many of the banners "down with Mubarak"there, has one in Egypt like to hide, or eliminated as soon as possible. Because long young Egyptians worked around the football stadium into their own political stage and allowed free rein their disapproval.

One has proved finally clear the Arab world ourselves: A revolution of Hazzard. While the revolution from country to country, the youth in Egypt doesn't give up, continues along the road and demanding their right to democracy. They protected their won freedom as an eyeball and fits precisely that it makes none of the usual suspects but still a thick line through the Bill at the end.


Life is no play

The young guns have so far shown a brave performance. You have not gone home until the unpopular dictator has result in a miserably. But life is no play which simply drops the curtain, when the climax is reached, if the villain is defeated on the ground. Life goes on, really begins after the fall of the tyrant. Mubarak's supporters cling like burs in their posts, try to close the wobbly points in the system to keep the barking hounds at Bay. Before a further explosion of the young freedom fighters, were frightened by the vultures and concluded the stage of ball sports of a short hand.

Muzzled, they wanted to make the protesters. But the stage of grass is past, the new stage is the road. And despite the revolution in football has arrived: the fans clamoring for the dismissal of Mubarak supporters, which are to be found anywhere in football. Their former idols have become enemies: Ibrahim Hassan, al Masry's assistant coach and former player has one of these pesky vultures turned into, which has battled the protesters on Tahrir square. Also Mortada Mansour was allegedly. Mansour is one of the big bosses of Zamalek, which is the most successful Club in Egypt in addition to local rivals of al-Ahly.

Self-confident, football fans now trying to delete the adversaries simply from her piece. The tactic is simple: Pro-Mubarak players will receive in the future just not cheering. The new hate is no whistles, no hate speech, silence. Trainers should be pushed from their posts, no one should be left at the end, who once sympathized with Mubarak. The disappointment of the fans too deep, they will never condone the footballers to have stood on the side of Mubarak's. The rebellious boys of yesterday have become serious opponents, can no longer simply be hidden. In the rumor mill, it vastly seethed that football ultras were the masterminds of the entire revolution. Our insider spot know but better. Many ultras fought while on the front lines against Mubarak, they played but at most a minor role in the ouster of the despot.

The vultures can fly further

The ball is rolling again in Egypt. Clubs were after the long break just before the bust, players could no longer be paid. The football stage in Egypt is reopened, will change in the future but. Mubarak and his supporters pumped millions into the sport to buy so a little international standing. Whether the clubs still get stuck to Government funds, is open. But the fans have lost the first battle: coach Hassan Shehata to be dismissed for the time being. He also was a close ally of Mubarak's. The demands of the fans, nor the defeat against South Africa on March 26 could shoot him from his post.

Now the players even in the hand have to be rid of their coach. They lose as long as they want to recapture the hearts of fans, their games until a coach is forced to resign. Because it has in common with the West also Egypt: at the end of only the success is in the eyes of the Club bosses. But where the political stage is the road, it is perhaps soon in Egypt at football matches times just one: football.