In order to raise capital for start-up expenses and a modest infrastructure, bearer shares were issued and divided among the club's founding members.įirst to subscribe was Aziz Izzet Pasha, Egypt's future ambassador to the UK. Similarly, four feddans and eight and a half Kirats (about 17,000 sq.m.) were set aside on the island of Gezira at a symbolic rent of one piaster per annum. Mitchell Aines, who quickly agreed recommending that a de novo board be formed post haste. A petition was presented to the government's financial advisor, Mr. His like-minded colleagues immediately picked up on Lotfy's suggestion to create a social and sports club. Thus their preference of coffee houses for lack of playing fields. Lotfy, then a senior member of the Department of Education was concerned that young Egyptian graduates, especially those, who had returned from scholarships in Europe, had nowhere to go for sports and leisure activities. It would be a few years before the name changed to National Sporting Club. In an interview published in Al-Mussawar's 9 April 1937 on the occasion of NSC's 30th anniversary the then-club secretary Mohammed Sharif Bey recounts how, thanks to Omar Lotfy Bey's suggestion, the National Athletics Club- Nadi Al Ahli lel-alaab came into being in 1907. But for the time being let’s briefly dwell on its younger neighbor the National Sporting Club- Nadi Al Ahli. The only Gezira island institution that can rightly claim to have forerun the founding of the Zamalek township by two decades is the Gezira Sporting Club, which of course merits an entire book.
NSC's first and last Egyptian pasha-presidents
#Ahly elyoum series#
Several of my articles on Garden City were plagiarized word for word by novelist MEKKAWI SAID (winner of the Egyptian State price for literature!!!!) and re-published under his own name in a three-part series in El-Masry El-Youm daily in September 2015.Ĭheers to our "talented" literature prize awardee. National Club - Nadi al Ahli egy.com suggests following articles VILLA PRINCESS FAWZIA.
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