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Egypt coach Hossam Suspended for three matches.
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Mostafa Zico handed 5-match ban.
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Argentina defeated Egypt 3-2 to advance to the quarter-final World Cup.
October 20, (THEWILL) – FIFA has suspended Egypt coach Hossam Hassan for three matches following comments he made after the team’s World Cup round-of-16 defeat to Argentina.
Forward Mostafa Zico was also handed a 5-match ban following the team’s 3-2 defeat to Argentina at the 2026 World Cup.
Hassan claimed his side was “cheated” out of a place in the quarterfinals after Argentina’s stunning late comeback.
“I do not want to put it nicely and talk about hard luck. We have been cheated unfairly today; we have suffered injustice”, Hassan said in an explosive post-match news conference.
Ibrahim Hassan, Hossam’s twin brother and Egypt’s national team director, has also been suspended for three matches.
The Egyptian Football Association announced the sanctions in a statement on Monday.
The statement read: “The Egyptian Football Association received the decisions of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee regarding Hossam Hassan, the national team coach, Ibrahim Hassan, the team manager, and player Mostafa Zico.”
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Zico’s five-match suspension is expected to keep him out of action until June.
The suspensions could rule the Hassan brothers out of Egypt’s upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Malawi in November, as well as the first match of the March international window.
Argentina fought back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat Egypt 3-2 to book a place in the quarter-finals.
A member of Egypt’s coaching staff was also shown a red card after Argentina scored the winning goal.
