Al-Ahram Weekly Online   25 - 31 December 2003
Issue No. 670
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In form and style
Egypt swept a football tournament in Bahrain that included an encounter with Iraq, reports Nashwa Abdel-Tawab

Soccer, the hard way
No money, no players, and, of course, the permanent fear. From Baghdad, Karim El-Gawhary covers one particular soccer battle in post-war Iraq

Frugal football
A narrow victory over Spain earned Brazil a fourth football World Youth Championship

A champion at the end
As the year closed, an Egyptian literally squashed the opposition at the World Open squash championship. Inas Mazhar reviews that conquest and the rest

Amr Shabana
Egypt's Amr Shabana squashes French Thierry Lincou's shot during the World Open Squash final --caption--

Socking it around
Egypt's own sock football is an art of its own. Galal Nassar shares the secrets, and looks at other local streetwise sports inventions

WHY US?
Egypt 2010 bid

Portrait of a pro: Hossam Hassan
Football with a flair

 

The stadiums and their cities
Egyptian 2010 World Cup bid factfiles


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