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Youssef Abbas
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Career
Abbas played and won the 1949 European Championships, improving the result of the 1947 edition in which he won the bronze medal. He also played the London Olympics 1948 and Helsinki 1952, as well as the 1950 World Cup.
He died in 1956: he was on an Egyptian aircraft knocked off Cyprus by the Israeli aviation (the so-called "Operation Tarnegol"), which aimed at the killing of Abd al-Haakīm 'Amir (not present on the flight), and which instead provoked the death of 18 people, including Ahmed Fouad Nessim, an Egyptian basketball player.
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