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About
Egyptian Football
Egyptian
football, broadcasted on Egyptian
Football - Premium Package Online
with JumpTV, covers differents matches and overviews of
various sports
events., providing interesting facts from the history of
football development in Egypt.
The
Egypt national football team, nicknamed The Pharaohs,
is the national
team of Egypt and is administered by the Egyptian
Football Association.
They were the first from an African country to participate in the World
Cup when they played in 1934, losing to Hungary 4-2. Egypt
has
qualified for one World Cup since then, going out in the first round in
1990. They were known as the United Arab Republic
national football
team when Egypt and Syria
joined to form the United Arab Republic from
1958 to 1961 and then until 1970, with Egypt alone making up the
UAR.
Egypt
won the inaugural African Nations Cup in
1957, and also won the
tournament in 1959, 1986, 1998, and 2006.
The
Egyptian Premier League 2006/2007
has sixteen clubs. The two most
popular egyptian clubs are Ahly and Zamalek of Cairo. Other strong
Premier League sides are Isma'ili (Isma'ilia), Masri (Port Sa'id),
Itihad (Alexandria) and al-Mokawloon al-Arab (Cairo). The Egyptian
league is considered to be one of the most competitive
leagues around
the world. The league is currently ranked 30th amongest the world by
the IFFHS.
The
Egyptian Cup is an annual cup
competition for the egyptian teams
from different divisions.
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Egyptian Premier League,
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