{"id":226187,"date":"2026-03-06T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-al-ahly-to-appeal-riveiro-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:54:27","slug":"egypt-al-ahly-to-appeal-riveiro-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-al-ahly-to-appeal-riveiro-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Al Ahly to Appeal Riveiro Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Egyptian giants, Al Ahly, have announced they will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a FIFA ruling that ordered them to pay former coach Jose Riveiro US$588 000 in compensation after sacking him last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The decision by FIFA&#8217;s Players&#8217; Status Chamber grants the former Orlando Pirates coach full compensation for his contract despite a brief spell at the club, including a three-month penalty clause stipulated in his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">But Al Ahly say they will appeal to CAS. They have a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050755.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian giants, Al Ahly, have announced they will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a FIFA ruling that ordered them to pay former coach Jose Riveiro US$588 000 in compensation after sacking him last year. The decision by FIFA&#8217;s Players&#8217; Status Chamber grants the former Orlando Pirates coach full compensation for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":226188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,11757,8992,4697,415,257,51675,7870,254],"class_list":["post-226187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahly","tag-appeal","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-riveiro","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}