Gamal Abdel-Hamid

Al-Ahly

Gamal Abdel-Hamid began his career by playing for the Ain El-Sira Youth Center, afterwards, he took tests at the 54 El-Harby Club in 1976, and was picked up by Chico and presented to Captain Awadin, Al Ahly's Youth coach. He began his professional career with Al Ahly on April 24, 1977, when he replaced Al-Ahly striker Mahmoud El-Khatib at the beginning of the second half against El-Sekka El-Hadid in the 26th week of the Egyptian Premier League, and scored his first goal only 23 minutes after his participation, scoring the third and final goal for Al Ahly in the match against Ahmed. Before. Abdel-Hamid scored his last goal for Al Ahly, against El-Salergani, Isco's goalkeeper, on May 1, 1982, in the 25th round, in the 67th minute, to lead Al-Ahly to a 3-0 victory. His career with Al Ahly continued for 6 years until he suffered a serious injury on October 10, 1982 in a joint match with goalkeeper Ekramy, which completely changed his football path. His career in Al Ahly witnessed his participation in 110 matches, during which he scored 33 goals, including 28 in the league in 91 matches, 3 goals in 10 matches in the Egypt Cup, and two African goals in 9 matches. With Al-Ahly, he achieved 8 championships in 6 years, including 5 league championships in 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82, and two Egypt Cup titles in 1978 and 1981, Al Ahly’s first African championship in 1982, and he was Al-Ahly's top scorer along with El-Khatib in the Egyptian Premier…

Abdel-Hamid's career with Egypt began in 1979 when Abdel Moneim El-Hag, the national team coach at the time, included him in his ranks to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics qualifiers. He played his first match against Kenya at Zamalek Stadium, and Egypt won with a score of 3-0. By 1984, Abdel-Hamid became one of the stars of Egyptian football and participated in winning the 1986 African Cup of Nations. He then became Egypt's captain in the 1987 African Games in Nairobi, and Egypt won the gold medal. He was also joint top-scorer at the 1988 African Cup of Nations, with 2 goals. Abdel-Hamid captained Egypt at the 1990 FIFA World Cup group stage. He scored 24 international goals for his country.

After Gamal Abdel Hamid retired from football, he headed to training for a short period at Saudi club Al-Hazem in 2003, an Al-Taawoun for the 2003-04 season, both clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Then he moved to the field of sports management and held the position of member of the Board of Directors of Zamalek for more than a period. He also works as a football analyst in television for Egyptian sports channels.

Club

Ahly

Egyptian League: 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82 Egypt Cup: 1977-78, 1980-81, 1982-83 CAF Champions League: 1982 Zamalek

Egyptian League: 1983-84, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1992-93 Egypt Cup: 1987-88 Egyptian Friendship Cup: 1986 CAF Champions League: 1984, 1986 Afro-Asian Club Championship: 1987

International

Egypt

Africa Cup of Nations: 1986 African Games Gold Medal: 1987

Individual

CAF Champions League Top Scorer: 1986 Africa Cup Of Nations Top Scorer: 1988 Egyptian League Top Scorer: 1987–88 Captain of Egypt in 1990 FIFA World Cup Scored 101 goals in Egyptian league Scored 18 Goals in African Club Cups (16 goals for Zamalek and 2 goals for Ahly)