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...course, he adds, attention doesn't stay diverted forever. "You cannot keep fooling people with football. People at the end of the day - even after trashing the Algerian embassy - are still going to go home on empty stomachs. The economic turmoil is still there," Hamalawy says. (See pictures: "Johannesburg Prepares for Soccer's World...
...there's soccer-related turmoil to cope with. Dozens of Algerian and Egyptian fans were injured in assaults and clashes following the Nov. 14 match. Sudan and Algeria have accused the Egyptian press of unfair treatment. And in a particularly humiliating blow, the sport's governing body FIFA launched formal disciplinary procedures against the Egyptian Football Association last week, in response to an attack by Egyptian fans on the Algerian team bus ahead of the Nov. 14 match...
...first game, which Egypt won, thousands of Egyptians flooded into the main thoroughfares of their capital, screaming, dancing and wreaking havoc. After the second game in Khartoum, in which Egypt lost its shot at the World Cup, the emphasis shifted to seeking revenge: hundreds amassed in front of the Algerian embassy in Cairo, burning Algerian flags, and eventually clashing with scores of riot police...
...Egyptian Foreign Ministry summoned the Algerian ambassador in Cairo last week to hear complaints about violence against Egyptians and Egyptian businesses in Algiers; and Algeria slapped Egyptian telecommunications giant Orascom Telecom with a $596.6 million bill for outstanding taxes, sending Orascom shares - a popular Middle East stock - tumbling. On Nov. 19, Egypt recalled its ambassador to Algeria "for consultations...
...field is Algeria, which qualified only after a tense playoff match with bitter rival Egypt on Wednesday in Sudan following outbursts of violence by both teams' fans in Cairo and Algiers. The victory has catapulted Algeria into its first World Cup since the 1980s, when a "golden generation" of Algerian players upset West Germany in the first round of the 1982 tournament and qualified for the 1986 competition only to bow out early. The current crop of Algerian players, many of whom were raised in France and play for clubs there, possess the same technical sparkle of those earlier World...