The death of the father of the former international referee, Yasser Abdel Raouf

A short while ago, Abdel Raouf Abdel Aziz, the father of Yasser Abdel Raouf, the international referee and former member of the Referees Committee, passed away.

Ayman Djeish, a current member of the Referees Committee of the Football Association, wrote through his personal account on the social networking site “Facebook”: “Survival and permanence belong to God … Captain Abdel Raouf Abdel Aziz, the father of Captain Yasser, passed away to the mercy of God Almighty.”

And he added: “The funeral prayer in the Abu Al-Makarim Mosque, in Salah Salem, after the noon prayer, and we belong to God and to Him we shall return.”