Hamada Emam

Playing career

Emam joined the Zamalek youth team in 1957. This happened when youth team coach Ali Sharaf saw him and decided to include him in the club. One of Emam's nicknames was "Mohamed V" and this goes back to a story with Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer in 1960, when he was 18 years old. Hamada Imam was then playing with the Zamalek's U-18, and also sometimes plays for the U-20 team. Zamalek U-20 reached the final of the Egypt Cup to meet Al Ahly, and the match ended in a draw, and the Egyptian Football Association decided to hold a rematch between the two sides. Zamalek wanted to use the services of Hamada Emam in the match, but they discovered that he was with his father in the Gaza Strip, as his father, Yehia Emam, who was also formerly the Zamalek's goalkeeper, was deputy governor of the Gaza Strip and wanted his son to devote himself to studying. Zamalek addressed Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, who was a Zamalek fan himself. Immediately, Amer decided to send a warplane to Gaza that brought Hamada Emam to Cairo. Hamada Emam participated in the match and scored 5 goals, and Zamalek defeated their traditional arch rival with a score of 6–0 and was champion of the Egypt Cup for U-20.

He joined the first team in the 1958. In the Cairo derby, Emam scored 6 goals (4 in official matches and 2 in friendly games) for Zamalek, and during his career, the team didn't lose from Al Ahly in an official match for over a whole decade, from 1962 to 1973, in all…

He was born on November 28, 1943 in the Al-Munira neighborhood of Sayyida Zeinab, adjacent to El-Qasr El-Aini Street in Cairo. His father Yehia Emam was Zamalek and Egypt's legendary Goalkeeper in the 1930s and 1940s. Yehia Emam was a former military officer and vice governor of Gaza in 1954. Hamada Emam graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy, and worked as an officer in the Egyptian Armed Forces and be retired with the rank of Brigadier General. He was married Dr. Maggie Al-Halwani, with whom he has two sons Hazem Emam and Ashraf Imam.

Zamalek

Egyptian League: 1959-60, 1963-64, 1964-65 Egypt Cup: 1958–59, 1959–60, 1961–62 October League Cup: 1974 Egypt

Africa Cup of Nations third place: 1970