Mahmoud El-Gohary

As a player, El-Gohary had a short-lived career. A persistent knee injury forced him into early retirement in 1961, cutting short a promising career. In the 1959 African Cup of Nations, which Egypt won, he ended as the top scorer in the competition. He was also part of Egypt's squad for the 1960 Summer Olympics. After his retirement from the game, El-Gohary became a coach with Al Ahly, eventually becoming an assistant manager from 1965 to 1977. In 1977, he became assistant manager to Dettmar Cramer at Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. Cramer left Al-Ittihad at the end of the 1981 season and El-Gohary was promoted to manager. Al-Ittihad won their first ever Saudi Premier League and El-Gohary won the first of many trophies as a manager. At Al Ahly, he won the first African League titles – African League Winners and African League Cup winners. With Zamalek, he won the 1993 African Cup of Champions Clubs and the first African Super Cup in 1994 against Al Ahly in the famous African Super of the 20th Century. Under his leadership, Egypt's national football team, he qualified for the FIFA World Cup in 1990, after the country's 56-year absence from the tournament (at the time, the longest record for a team to be absent between one tournament and another, later equaled by Norway in 1994 and overcome by Wales in 2022). Under your command, Egypt drew with Netherlands by 1–1 and Republic of Ireland by 0–0, and lost for England by 0–1, being eliminated in the group stage in the Group F. He…

Player

Al Ahly

Egyptian Premier League: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61 Egypt Cup: 1956, 1958, 1961 United Arab Republic

African Cup of Nations: 1959

Manager

Al-Ittihad Club

Saudi Premier League: 1981–82 Al Ahly

Egyptian Premier League: 1985–86 Egypt Cup: 1984, 1985 African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1982 African Cup Winners' Cup: 1985 Zamalek

African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1993 CAF Super Cup: 1994 Egypt

Arab Nations Cup: 1992 African Cup of Nations: 1998