The Ismaili Club Board of Directors, headed by Engineer Yahya El-Koumi, decided to set up a funeral pavilion tomorrow, Wednesday, in open stadiums to receive delegations and masses of fans, in the death of Dr. Raafat Abdel Azim, the former club president, who passed away.
The family of Dr. Raafat Abdel Azim decided to hold his funeral tomorrow, following the followingnoon prayer, from the Fire Station Mosque in Ismailia until his final resting place in the family cemetery in Future City.
The club’s board of directors had declared 3 days of mourning in mourning for the death of the deceased, who took over the presidency of the club from May 1991 until August of the same year, and for the second time during the period from September 2011 until August 2012.