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Safaga Estad Aluminium

We continue our pharaonic dicovery voyage by moving on to the Red Sea. Unlike Greater Cairo, the Delta, the Canal Stretch and cities bordering the Nile, The Red Sea Governorate has until very recentky never produced clubs to feed the Momtaz, the equivalent to the Premier League.

The Red Sea Governorate accommodates clubs from Hurghada, a household name holiday resort, from nearby El Gouna, a self-contained de luxe town, beautifully set amidst artificial lagoons and from Safaga, a main marine port, also serving as a tourist area and ferry focus point for the annual pilgrimages to Mecca.

Safaga Condominiums

With the departure of the aluminium and sulphuric acids producing plants in Safaga the company team Aluminium Safaga were left with no assets, a bumpy pitch, its surface conjuring up visions of a mixture of acne and a bad complexion. The team were a formidable home site with an envious home record but would always almost by default falter away from Safaga. Lack of financial resources forced the club from withdrawing from the league and second division before the start of this season. It’s sad to see their partisan support, although not turning up in numbers, being deprived from their home team.

Parking Lot

Aluminium Safaga are eponymous for marginal football in marginal conditions, like so many of their Egyptian counterparts dwelling in the second and third division, be it on the Red Sea, in Toshka near the Sudanese border or in insignificant communities along the Nile.

Sometimes pictures tell more than a thousand words, regardless of the local language spoken. They may seem debilitating or even pathetic. It’s perspective though is that ‘big teams’ from the second division, Petrol Assyut being one of them and recently having been promoted to the Momtaz as divisional champions, found their Waterloo here and were in for a humiliating 300 miles trip back home.