Abdelrahman Fawzy

Al-Masry

Fawzy began his career in 1928 with his hometown club, Al-Masry SC. He played with the club till 1934, a total of 6 seasons. He won with them the Sultan Hussein Cup 2 times (1933, 1934) and the Canal Zone League 3 times (1932, 1933, 1934).

Zamalek

In 1934, Fawzy moved to Cairo-based club Zamalek SC where he spent most of his career, as he played with the Cairo giants until his retirement from football in 1947, playing with Zamalek a total of 12 seasons. Fawzy scored twice in the infamous 6-0 win for Zamalek over Al Ahly in the 1942 Cairo Derby. He won with Zamalek the Egypt Cup 5 times (1935, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1944) and the Cairo League 5 times (1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1946–47).

Fawzy played for the Egypt national team. He was among the team that competed in the 1934 World Cup qualifiers, in which Egypt won 11–2 on aggregate of the two matches against the Mandatory Palestine national team, with seven goals in the match that was held in Cairo, which ended with a score of 7–1 and four goals in the match that was held in Jerusalem, which ended with a score of 4–1, with Fawzy scoring the fourth goal for Egypt.

At the 1934 FIFA World Cup, Fawzy participated in the match against Hungary and scored two goals as the match ended 4–2 in favor of Hungary. Mustafa Mansour, Egypt's goalkeeper at that match, stated that Fawzy scored the third goal for Egypt, when the result was a 2–2 tie between the two teams, but the referee canceled it for an offside offence despite him playing the ball from the centre of the field. Fawzy is the first ever African footballer to score at the FIFA World Cup. He is also Egypt's top goalscorer at the World Cup with 2 goals.

In 1946, after retiring from professional football, Fawzy worked as a manager for his former club Zamalek SC (known as Farouk until 1952). In 1953, while managing Zamalek, Fawzy became the manager of the Egypt national football team. Fawzy led the Egypt national team to win the 1953 Pan Arab Games football tournament with a 4–0 victory over Syria in the final. Unlike his performance as a player, they failed to qualify to the 1954 FIFA World Cup after losing their two matches against Italy in the qualification rounds, after that Fawzy was no longer the manager of the Egypt national football team, after one year in that position.

In 1956, Fawzy became the first manager in the history of Egyptian football to manage two clubs at the same time, when he managed Ghazl El Mahalla, playing in the Egyptian Second Division at that time, alongside him managing Zamalek. He led Ghazl El Mahalla, in that season, to their first promotion to the Egyptian Premier League. He resigned from his position as Ghazl El Mahalla manager, after one season, he also resigned from his post with Zamalek after 10 years of managing the team, making him the longest-serving manager in the history of Zamalek to date. With Zamalek, Fawzy won the Egypt Cup 2 times (1952, 1955) and the Cairo League 5 times (1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53), a total of seven titles, making him the most successful manager in the history of the club. In 1957, Fawzy became the first manager of the Saudi Arabia national…

Fawzy was born in the Egyptian city Port Said, Khedivate of Egypt on 25 May 1911.