Egyptian club Zamalek's president has threatened to ban a group of supporters who arranged themselves in the shape of a giant 'angry face' emoji in an eye-catching protest during their African Champions League match against Sudan's Al-Merreikh.
Egyptian club Zamalek's president has threatened to ban a group of supporters who arranged themselves in the shape of a giant “angry face” emoji in an eye-catching protest during their African Champions League match against Sudan's Al-Merreikh.
Zamalek, the Egyptian champions, were already out of the continental competition before kickoff, and their supporters decided to use the final group game to register their displeasure at the team's third consecutive group stage exit. Dressed all in black instead of their usual white, about 150 Zamalek fans sat in formation through their team's 4-3 win at Cairo International Stadium on Friday, with about 30 of them forming the emoji's unsmiling “mouth”.
“Zamalek wears white with two red lines. Whoever wants to support us is welcome, but not in black,” Zamalek president Mortada Mansour told reporters.
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