{"id":360574,"date":"2026-07-04T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360574\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:27:09","slug":"viral-video-shows-egypt-coach-team-director-in-dallas-police-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360574\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video shows Egypt coach, team director in Dallas police confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confrontation between Egypt&#8217;s coaching staff and a Dallas police officer at the team&#8217;s hotel sparked a viral video ahead of a World Cup match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egypt coach Hossam Hassan said he considered the matter resolved after <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uSSrhd3wwO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">he and team director Ibrahim Hassan had a physical confrontation with a police officer <\/a>at the team&#8217;s hotel in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Video began circulating Thursday, a day before Egypt beat Australia in the round of the 32 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the World Cup<\/a>, showing both men arguing with a Dallas police officer, apparently over a player preparing to take a picture with a young fan in the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The officer approaches Hossam Hassan first, but his interaction with Ibrahim Hassan becomes a shoving match. Ibrahim Hassan appeared to be upset at the officer intervening.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas police issued a statement saying that just before midnight, officers were responding to a request from hotel security about an individual without event credentials attempting to gain access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was later learned that the individuals weren&#8217;t displaying credentials properly, which is a requirement,&#8221; Dallas police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the issue was resolved at the scene, and that police met with Egyptian representatives to address their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Hossam Hassan said through a translator that the team had accepted an apology from the police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really happy to be here at this tournament and we are satisfied with the security personnel that are accompanying us,&#8221; Hossam Hassan said. &#8220;I would like to point to the high-level organization we have with us and the level of security we have with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hassan is the first person to play and coach for Egypt at the World Cup. The victory over Australia came in Egypt&#8217;s debut in the knockout round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A confrontation between Egypt&#8217;s coaching staff and a Dallas police officer at the team&#8217;s hotel sparked a viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,4081,127489,731,154,3692],"class_list":["post-360574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-egypt","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}