Hassan Hamdy

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Hassan Hamdy
Personal information
Full name Mohamed Mahmoud Hamdy Ismail
Date of birth August 2, 1949 (1949-08-02) (age 58)
Place of birth    Cairo, Egypt,
Playing position Defender (Retired)
Club information
Current club El-Ahly's Chairman
Youth clubs
1962-1970
El-Ahly
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1971-1978
El-Ahly  ?(?)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Hassan Hamdy is the 13th and current president of the Egyptian El-Ahly Sporting Club. He was the vice president of the club during Saleh Selim's presidency and the chairman of Al-Ahram advertising agency which is part of the Al-Ahram association and the president of the International Advertising Association (IAA)'s Cairo branch.[1] He played for El Ahly football team as a midfielder/defender in 1960 and 1970 and was the 20th captain of the squad.

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[edit] Player

Hamdy was not strange to football. He contributed greatly to the growing popularity of El Ahli club and his name spread and consolidated its position among the masses in Egypt and throughout the Arab world to provide for the club and stars spherical and administrative leaders who commanded Ahli over the years. Hamdy became one of the symbols of the club's history which extends inside the walls of the club to more than 42 uninterrupted years since joining the team in beginners under 14 years in 1962. He earned the title "Minister of Defense" after joining the team's first season 1971-72, and played his first game in front of Damietta. He has been with the first team in league championship for six seasons, playing 107 games during season and the last three seasons are the most prominent in his life. In the following year Hamdy played in El Ahli in the beginning of the path in front of 32 Somalians in Mogadishu and the match ended in a tie on February 19, 1977. The fifth and final African match were played in a meeting with Tripoli on May 21. Hamdy retired from soccer in 197 after a long GOI that it was better than filling Center backers Khash in Egypt.

[edit] Director of Football

Hassan Hamdy took the post of Director of the Game momentarily caught up on June 17, 1979 and was preparing youngest holder of this office in Egypt, where Egyptian clubs had not completed general session, after which time many felt it to be one of the difficult tasks, which are the responsibility of the leadership of the largest and most powerful group in Egypt. Because Hamdy succeeded in taking command of El Ahly for many championships where he won the football league seasons 79 times, and the Copa Egypt 4 times the years 1981, 83 and 84, 1985. He also achieved the Dome of the first African to win the Copa Clubs Champions league in 1982 and Champions Cup three times years 84, 85, 1986.

Hamdy took a decision to have a meeting between Ahly and Zamalek in the role of 8 Egypt Cup in 1985. El Ahly defeated El Zamalek on August 4, 1985. Hamdy returned in the elections held in November 15, 1996 and was elected as an agent and won 6219 votes, the highest votes in the history of the club elections. In the November 2000 elections, Hamdy returned to assert his position inside the Ahli Club, where he was elected vice-president by a significant margin over his closest rivals.

[edit] President of El Ahly

After the departure of Saleh Selim on May 6, 2002, Hassan Hamdi submitted a nomination for the presidency. The club members renewed their confidence in Hasan Hamdi in the elections of December 17, 2004. This was announced by the overwhelming support for Hamdi and the full list of the club's leadership of the new electoral witness celebrate National occasion of the centenary of the foundation.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ El Ahram Weekly