Zamalek Toolbar: El Zamalek " Egypt's Real Madrid "

El Zamalek " Egypt's Real Madrid "
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Ahmed Abd El Fattah on 09/11/2011 13:57:00

mundodeportivo " El Zamalek es el Real Madrid de Egipto "

mundodeportivo published a great report about our beloved club in its official
site . Let's read this great report :
Atletico derby live a sort of on his visit to Cairo to face Zamalek. Why? Well,
because if he had a team in Egypt that could compare with Real Madrid, Cairo box
would be a clear candidate. Starting  from the fact that white light, through
which the club was known as the  'White', the 'White Knight' or simply 'Casa
Blanca' (Does that sound?)  To the fact that it is one of more times the teams
have raised their country's league -11 - and the African Champions. Zamalek,  in
particular the maximum is five championship titles continental  clubs, only
surpassed by the Al-Ahly, its cosmopolitan neighbor (who  wears red) and has a
trophy of the competition but with well over league  -21 - . Yet  another
question for us would find similarities would be the fact that  the Zamalek team
is considered the upper class of the capital while it  is Al-Ahly of the lower
classes and women, an archetype that although uncertain date, has also been used
to analyze the rivalry between Atletico and Real Madrid.
The  set was created Cairo January 5, 1911 under the auspices of the Belgian 
lawyer Merzbach and around a community of non-English foreign  expatriates. The 
first name of the club was that of "Kasr El-Nile Club and later called 
Mokhtalat (from 1913 to 1940), King Farouk (from 1940 to 1952) and  finally to
its current name since 1952, when the club moved to the district of that name,
which lies between the island Gezira and River Nile
Originally, Zamalek had more local European members in a club that had several
sports. The  first team football at the club was formed in 1913 and was one of
the  pioneers in national competitions along with Al Ahly or Seka Al Hadid 
club, which is measured in teams with members of the British army (then  Egypt
was a colony ) or other university formed. At the time, football became somewhat
of a way to show dissatisfaction with the foreign occupation. Thus,  the victory
of a team created by Hussien Hegazy returning from his  studies at Cambridge,
before two British clubs that spurred local teams  like Zamalek and Al Ahly
strengthen that role 'insurgent'. During those years, both clubs were resistance
to the British sport.
The first club hooligans
Zamalek is one of the most popular clubs not only in Egypt but throughout
Africa. The  Cairo club with the first group of ultras of football on the
continent:  'Ultra White Knights' (UWK) or 'Ultras White Knights', that have 
entered the country in football animations with dances and songs in the  style
of happens in Europe. Currently kept fighting with the 'Ultras Ahlawy' and
'Union Ahly Lovers'.
The  host club's visit Atletico have 34 titles in his country and ten  African
Champions including the five mentioned above, the first of which  was achieved
in 1984 after beating Nigeria Shooting Stars. Its golden ages occurred in the
early 90's and the decade of 2000. In  recent times, the Nile turns to have
dropped the club, and sports legal  restructuring, after living a process for
tax evasion. Holds the record for games unbeaten between 2002 and 2004 (52
games).