Hanafy Bastan

Club career

Bastan's first official match with Zamalek was against Al Ahly in the 1941–42 Cairo League, and Zamalek won 6-0, with Bastan shining as a center back in the Cairo derby, he quickly became a key player in the team. He won seven titles of the Egypt Cup with Zamalek (1941, 1943, 1944, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958). He won with Zamalek ten titles of the Cairo League titles (1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53). Nicknamed the Black Rock, Bastan played with several generations of Zamalek, he played with Mohamed Latif in latter's final days as a player, he also played with Abdel-Karim Sakr, Omar Shendi, Abdulrahman Fawzi, Helmy Zamora, finally he was the captain of the team including Essam Baheeg, Alaa El-Hamouly, Nour El-Dali, Sharif El-Far and Abdou Noshi. He was a key player in the team, he played with Zamalek for almost 20 years, with 16 seasons in the starting lineup achieving 18 titles for his club.

International career

He played his first international game with the Egypt national football team in 1945 and participated in the London tournament in the same year. Bastan played 56 international matches and scored 16 goals for his country. He was a part of the team that participated in the 1948 Olympic Games in London. He also was a part of the team that participated in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He played for his country in the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, where the hosts finished…

After his retirement, he worked as coach in Zamalek, he also coached Egypt with his long time friend Mohamed El-Guindi in the 1962 African Cup of Nations, and Egypt finished second. Afterwards, he left coaching career. In the 1960s, Bastan became a senior football adviser in Zamalek, a post which he held until his death in 1995. In Egyptian Cinema, Bastan appeared in two films, he co-starred in Talk of the City (Hadeeth Al-Madina Arabic: حديث المدينة) (1964) and Goodbye Forever (Wada'n Ela Al-Abad Arabic: وداعاً إلى الأبد) (1976).

Hanafy Bastan was born on 6 January 1922 in Sayyidah Zainab District, Cairo. He learned football skills by playing in Housh Ayoub Bey in Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood. He was the captain of the primary school, then the middle school, and finally the Saidia Secondary School. Mahmoud Badr El-Din, who was working as a coach at the time, saw him in one of their matches, and he joined the Zamalek youth team in 1937.

Player

Zamalek

Egypt Cup: 1940–41, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1951–52, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58 Cairo League:1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53 King Fouad Cup: 1940–41 Egypt

African Cup of Nations: 1957 Arab Games: (1) 1953 Mediterranean Games: (1) 1955

Manager

United Arab Republic

African Cup of Nations: runner-up, 1962