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Dr. Hossam Badrawi writes: For “Al-Masry Al-Youm”: Hope and Pain

I think that nothing creates positive collective energy in Egypt like sports and winning. Just as heroism creates dream and hope, frustration also has a collective psychological effect on the conscience of the nation.

The excitement and excitement of our team in the World Cup is over, and it is time for rational analysis.

Competitive sport needs a building with rules, and the base of competition must be broad in schools and universities, which include millions of young people in the appropriate age group to make the champion or the champion team, and we do not have this rule as a basis for the almost absolute absence of sports in schools and universities. Is the achievement of building the base impossible? I assure you, with thousands of youth centers around schools, that it is possible, and requires political will and management of the concept of character building in education.

The second thing is the importance of the presence and continuation of competitions at the highest level, which depends on a sustainable system, respect for the law and the presence of the public, which are all matters, as you know, far from our reality. Competitions without an audience, funding without rules, and matches are subject to the mood of politics and conditions, and respecting the sustainability of competitions is not a priority. Is it difficult to achieve? I assure you that it is possible when we do not evade responsibility, and do not follow the approach of prevention instead of managing the holding of competitions.

Finally, sports management, like any industry, needs professionals, and I urge you to look at the thousands of youth centers, the largest Egyptian clubs and gaming federations and how to manage them, and to the readable and visual sports media and its quality, to know that the pillars of success need a new building.

We were in a state of momentary emotions, praised by our love for the homeland, but it does not build a sport and does not lead to a championship except by unsustainable chance, and the same is true in the economy and politics and in managing many of the country’s affairs, unfortunately.

Introductions often lead to results, except in rare cases, and we must build and not destroy.

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people