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Last September, Bob Bradley agreed to become the head coach of the Egyptian national team. He knew it would be the ultimate test.

Fans charged in Egypt's deadliest soccer riot declared their innocence in the first session of their trial Tuesday, directing their anger toward police, charged with collaborating in the killing of 75 supporters of a rival team.

Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with thousands of angry soccer fans in a Suez Canal city over the suspension of their club following a deadly riot last month, witnesses said Saturday. A medical official said a teenager was killed.

Egypt's top prosecutor on Thursday charged 75 people in connection with a deadly soccer riot last month in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which authorities said fans were thrown to their death off the stadium walls and others killed by explosives

The Egyptian Football Association has canceled the rest of this season's league matches following rioting at a match last month that killed 74 people and injured hundreds of others.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he will seek to reinstate fired Egypt soccer federation leaders, calling their dismissal "direct interference" by the Cairo government.

Egyptian state TV says more than 70 people are dead after fans of rival soccer teams rushed the field in Port Said, hurling stones and sticks at each other and sparking a stampede.

Bob Bradley's agent says the former U.S. coach is a candidate to lead Egypt's national team.

The U.S. national soccer team has canceled its Feb. 9 exhibition against Egypt in Cairo because of the political turmoil there.

World Cup qualifiers involving Egypt and Libya will be played without fans next month because of political tensions in those countries.

Bob Bradley and Egypt's aging soccer star found more in common than just a desire to reach another World Cup, Wayne Drehs writes for ESPN The Magazine.

Bob Bradley in Egypt

Brazil will start its bid for a first Olympic gold medal against Egypt.

Egypt's interim government has canceled the national cup competition, ending all soccer in the country this season.

The Egyptian Football Association says the nation's league could resume in empty stadiums after the mourning period ends on March 15 for the 74 people killed in the country's worst soccer violence.

African soccer authorities are giving $150,000 to the families of victims caught during the violence at an Egypt stadium.