Mohamed Barakat

Early career

Barakat began his career at Sekka but found his feet when he joined Al-Ismaily – just about the only club in Egypt with the ability to stand up to the 'big boys' of Al Ahly and Zamalek.

Gulf Countries

The 2002 Egyptian Footballer of the Year has joined Ahly Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. He helped the later win 2003 Arab Club Championship. Barakat scored twice in that tournament; including the Final winner goal. and then going to Alarabi in Qatar.

Al Ahly

Barakat returned to Egypt in 2004 to join Al Ahly. Some have commented that the combination with Mohamed Aboutrika and Emad Moteab formed the most formidable triangle in African Soccer, and they were given the moniker of "The Bermuda Triangle". Mohamed Barakat won the BBC African Footballer of 2005 award ahead of Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o and Obafemi Martins of Nigeria. More than 15,000 voted for him. He was also named the best player in Africa's continental club competition by the African Football Association for the same year, as he scored 7 goals in the CAF Champions League 2005. Barakat started the season of 2013 with some bad performances, but after sometime he got back to his perfect form and scored in the CAF Super Cup 2013 the winning goal, which led Al Ahly to win the cup. After he played a match against Benzarty match in CAF Champions League 2013 and scored a goal from a penalty, he also made an assist to Emad Meteb. Two weeks later there were rumors of his retirement and Barakat…

Barakat made his debut for the Pharaohs in June 2000 against South Korea. He played 4 matches in 2002 African Cup of Nations and all Egypt's matches in 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. Barakat ended his international career on 18 November 2009 after his dream to reach the 2010 FIFA World Cup was crashed by Algeria that won 1–0, he told the press about that discussion on 11 August 2010.

International

Scores and results list Egypt's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Barakat goal.

Ismaily

Egyptian Premier League: 2001–02 Egypt Cup: 2000 Al Ahli Saudi

Arab Unified Club Championship: 2002 Al Ahly

Egyptian Premier League: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 Egypt Cup: 2006, 2007 Egyptian Super Cup: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 CAF Champions League: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012 CAF Super Cup: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013 Egypt

African Cup of Nations: 2006 Individual

BBC African Footballer of the Year: 2005 African Inter-Club Player of the Year: 2005 CAF Team of the Year: 2005 CAF Champions League top goalscorer: 2005 (Shared with Joetex Frimpong)