Tersana Sporting Club () is an Egyptian football club based in Giza. It is the second biggest club in Giza after Egyptian giant El Zamalek. The club is currently a member of the Egyptian Second Division as it relegated from in 2008–09 season from the Egyptian Premier League.

Tersana's most important accomplishments include wining Egypt Cup title 6 times and the Egyptian league title once. Tersana also participated in the CAF Cup Winners' Cup once in 1987 and ousted in the Quarter-Final with Tunisian Al-Taragy. The first leg, played in Cairo, ended with a draw, while the second leg, played in Tunisia, ended in a 1-2 loss.

Hassan El-Shazly, Moustafa Reyadh, Mohammad Abul Ezz, Mahmoud Hassan, and Ibrahim El-Khalil are some of the clubs's historic players of all time.

Omar Medhat, is one of Tersana's most recent additions to the club in the Egyptian Second Division. Omar Medhat is one of their younger team players who has demonstrated great skill and potential and is definitely one to watch in the Egyptian Second Division 2010-11

Achievements

Egyptian Premier League: 1

:: 1962/63

Egyptian Soccer Cup: 6

:: 1923, 1929, 1954, 1965, 1967, 1986

Performance in CAF competitions

CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

::1987 - Second Round

Current squad

Notable players

Mohamed Aboutrika Hassan El-Shazly Moustafa Reyadh Mohamed Abdel Wahed

See also

List of Tersana Players of all Time, see :Category:Tersana players

External links

Tersana History

Category:Egyptian football clubs

Playername	Hazem Emam
Fullname	Hazem Mohamed Yehia El-Horria Emam
Nickname	ZoomaEl Fanan (The Artist) El Embrator (The Emperor)The Little Fox
Dateofbirth	May 10, 1975
Cityofbirth	Cairo
Countryofbirth	Egypt
Height
Years	1993–19961996–20011998–20002001–2008
Clubs	Zamalek SCUdinese Calcio→De Graafschap (loan)Zamalek SCCareer
Clubnumber	14
Position	Attacking midfielder
Youthclubs	Shooting SC Zamalek SC
Caps(goals)	? (7)11 (0)38 (4)122 (27)151 (34)
Nationalyears	1995–2005
Nationalteam	Egypt
Nationalcaps(goals)	55 (7)
Pcupdate	January 31, 2007
Ntupdate	January 31, 2007

Hazem Emam (born on May 10, 1975) is a retired Egyptian footballer. He spent most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Zamalek SC. Hazem is one of the most talented players in the history of Egyptian football, and one of the most popular players ever in the Middle East.

Early life

Hazem was born in Mohandessin, Egypt. He is the son of the Zamalek legend, Hamada Emam; and the grandson of another Zamalek legend, Yehia Emam. Hazem as a kid, never planned to become a footballer and follow the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He always focused on one thing at a time, and in his early teens, he only focused on enjoying his life, hanging out with friends, and just finishing school. Hazem was known to be very shy as a child, and that was mainly why at first he refused to practice football despite his father's insistence.

Early career

Hazem loved to play football for fun. He never wanted to take things seriously, and that's why he went to practice at shooting club (A club that doesn't have a first team). He wanted to be with his friends all the time, until one day, in the Egyptian Youth League, Zamalek's youth coach at the time, Badr Haddad, insisted that he has to come and play for Zamalek. Haddad spoke to Hazem's father, Hamada, who was Zamalek's president at the time, and convinced him that his son is a real gem.Hazem went to then play for Zamalek's youth. Until in 1993, when Mahmoud El Goharry took charge of the team, he promoted young Hazem to the first team. Hazem picked the #14 shirt because of his idol Johan Cruijff, and made his debut in November that same year. However, he didn't make many appearances that seasons and was mainly used as a late sub. However, next season, he was given an opportunity to shine and was the focus of attention as a potential future star for Egypt. His amazing performances in that season, and the one that followed, convinced Egypt's National Team coach at the time, Ruud Krol to pick him for the national team.

Rise To Stardom

African Cup of Nations 1996 arrived, and Emam's form was on fire. He was Egypt's best player in the tournament, and one of the best youngsters to shine. His performance interested Manchester United, Parma, and Udinese. Hazem eventually signed for Udinese a day before sir Alex Ferguson made a contact with his father, Zamalek's president at the time, to sign Hazem.Emam didn't enjoy a successful era in the Serie A, despite being the first Egyptian and Arab footballer to play in Italy. He never really got his chance, as Alberto Zaccheroni preferred to play him as a striker, despite Hazem's natural position being a playmaker. Hazem couldn't break into the first team due to the rocking striking partnership between Oliver Bierhoff and Marcio Amoroso, and was eventually loaned to De Graafschap in Holland. There, Emam enjoyed two successful seasons making 38 appearances, and scoring four goals, leading to interest from Ajax.

Return To Egypt

Despite Ajax's efforts to sign the creative playmaker, he returned to Zamalek in January 2001. His first game was against Zamalek's arch rivals, Al Ahly, in which Zamalek won 3-1, with Emam assisting the first goal. He was quickly assigned the team's captain and led them to winning the league that same season scoring 2 goals and making numerous assists. Emam was an instant fan favorite and captained Zamalek to winning 3 league titles, 1 cup title, 2 super cup titles, 1 African cup title, and 1 African super cup title. He enjoyed four successful seasons winning trophies, and individual accolades with Zamalek, before his form started to drop at the start of the 2005/2006 season. Hazem was always criticized for his lack of fitness during his career, and after he hit the 30 it was obvious that he wasn't the same player anymore.Hazem's role at the club declined in his last three seasons, which led to him to retiring at the age of only 33. At the opening match of the 2007/2008 season, Emam fell out with Zamalek's supporters after they kept chanting vulgarities towards him and asking him to retire. Emam announced his retirement, only to shortly come back after the fans offered a public apology. However, he finished his career at the end of that season on a high note, after Zamalek beat Enppi in the cup final, marking Zamalek's first trophy in four seasons. Hazem had announced his retirement earlier in spring, therefore the player's wore a T-shirt that had his number on it and words "Don't retire Hazem" in the warm up before the game.

National team

Hazem made his debut for the national team in 1996, and has 86 caps for Egypt. He has participated in the CAN 5 times, in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004. His biggest achievement was winning it in 1998, but his best performances came in 2002 when he scored two goals and was picked in the team of the tournament.

Titles

2 titles for national team

1 African Cup of Nations for Egypt (Burkina Faso 1998)

1 African All-Games soccer title for Egypt (Zimbabwe 1995)

12 titles for Al-Zamalek

3 Egyptian League for (2000/2001 & 2002/2003 & 2003/2004)

2 Egyptian Super Cup (2000/2001 & 2001/2002)

2 Egyptian Cup (2001/2002 & 2007/2008)

2 African Champions League (1996 & 2002)

1 African Super Cup (2002)

1 Arab Club Championship title (2003)

1 Egyptian Saudi Super Cup (2003)

Personal Titles

World Best Soccer Skills Pepsi Challenge Winner 2001

Egyptian Footballer of the Year 2003 (Egyptian Football Association)

Selected in best team of African cup 1996 and 2002

Top scorer of African Qualifications for African Cup of Nations 1998

Trivia

Hazem Emam is one of the most beloved players in the history of Zamalek, . He has many nicknames like the Egyptian magician.

Emam won the Pepsi World Challenge competition in 2001, beating the likes of Rivaldo, Rui Costa, Roberto Carlos, Juan Veron, David Beckham and many others.

Hazem got married in 2003, and has two daughters.

References

External links

Hazem Emam Official Website

HazemLovers official website

Player profile - national-football-teams.com

Hazem goal with udinese

Hazem compilation video

Hazem Emam section on biggest Zamalek fanclub

Unofficial Hazem website

Another Hazem photo album

Hazem Emam Official Page on Facebook

Other references

World Best Soccer Skills Pepsi Challenge Winner 2001

Hazem Emam, Zico of the Pyramids

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Playername	Ahmed Fathy
Fullname	Ahmed Fathy
Height
Dateofbirth	November 10, 1984
Countryofbirth	Egypt
Currentclub	El-Ahly
Clubnumber	24
Position	Right-back / Right midfielder
Youthclubs	Ismaily
Years	2000–200720072007–
Clubs	IsmailySheffield UnitedEl-Ahly
Caps(goals)	86 (5) 6 (2) 107 (6)
Nationalyears	2001–
Nationalteam	Egypt
Nationalcaps(goals)	72 (3)
Pcupdate	20:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Ntupdate	18:41, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Ahmed Fathy (sometimes spelt Fathi, born November 10, 1984) is an Egyptian international football player. He currently plays for El-Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League. He plays a variety of roles in the midfield such as right midfielder and defensive midfielder and occasionally in the right back role for club and country.

Club career

Fathy played as a midfielder and right back for Ismaily in Egypt. He prefers to play on the right side of midfield, and is known for his versatility as he plays in the right back, right midfield and central midfield positions. He appeared in the ACN Egypt 2006 final against Ivory Coast playing as a central defender in place of the injured Wael Gomaa.

Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported in early 2007 that club Ismaily SC had accepted Sheffield United's £700,000 offer for Fathy, and after a number of weeks of protracted negotiations Fathy signed a three and a half year contract on January 24, 2007.

Fathy made his Premiership debut as a substitute in the closing minutes of the 2-1 defeat of Tottenham Hotspur at Bramall Lane on February 10, 2007. He made his full first-team debut at Anfield against Liverpool on February 24, 2007, but failed to hold down a regular spot for the Blades.

He was linked with a move to the Egyptian club El Zamalek for 2 million Euros after discussions with Sheffield United's management, but the player refused the transfer even though the clubs had agreed a fee - he insisted he wanted to continue his career as a professional player outside of Egypt, but arch-rivals Al-Ahly managed to get Fathy's consent and Sheffield United's agreement to a deal.

On 10 September 2007 he joined El-Ahly after making just three senior appearances for the Blades in the eight months he had spent with the club. Although the figure has not been revealed it is believed Sheffield United recouped the £675,000 they paid for him.

Fathi had been signed though after the trasfer window in Egypt had closed and thus without having played a single match for his new club he had to find another to gain valuable match experience until January which was in 3 months time, but that demand was hard as it was difficult for the Ahly board to find Fathi a team that would accept a loan movement of a player who had little match playing time and would only stay for a few months before leaving and needed to play regularly, it was a hard task but Ahly boards managed to agree with Kuwaiti giants Al Kazma to accept the player on a loan deal and Fathi managed to play regularly for the team and had managed to become a star play in the formation of the Kuwaiti team with his passes and he even managed to score a few goals.

Fathi went on to become a key member of Ahly's squad in a small amount of time, his debut came against Arab Contractors away in front of a 15,000 crowd stadium on 10 March 2008, he went on to become one of Ahly's main assets in the middle of the field as he controlled the midfield with his fellow defensive midfielder Hossam Ashour and guided the Red Devils to a 3-1 away win, scoring the first goal for Ahly from a powerful curling free kick in the first half. He is also often shofted in the right back role by Ahly manager Manuel Jose just like in the national team.

Fathi scored 3 goal as of 12 April 2008 and his highlight moment came against arch-rivals Zamalek, the team that almost signed him from Sheffield United a year back, opening the score for his team to a 2-0 win and thus making the derby event an even more disappointing night for the Zamalek crowd as the team have never won Ahly for the past 4 years except once.He scored 2 goals in the match Angola 5-2 Benin.

International career

Fathy became Egypt's youngest ever international when he was capped at 17 years old in 2001 against South Africa. Fathi was picked for the National team by Egyptian Coach Mohsen Saleh even before playing in his club's first team Ismaily SC, although this followed soon after, and was then called up for the Egyptian youth team.

He was a member of the Egyptian youth team that won the African Youth Cup 2003 in Burkina Faso, and he was the star of the Egypt squad at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in 2003 and at one point Fathi was part of Egypt's U-20, U-23 and senior squads at the same time. he was also part of the Egypt squad that won the Africa Cup of Nations at the Cairo International Stadium in 2006, when they beat the Ivory Coast on penalties in the final.

In February 2007, Fathi sealed a 2-0 win over Sweden with a powerful shot three minutes before time in an international friendly in Cairo marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African Football Confederation (Caf).

On February 7, 2008, at Africa Cup of Nations Ghana 2008 Fathi scored the first goal to lead Egypt to an historic 4-1 win over Côte d'Ivoire in the semi-finals.

International goals

Correct as of 11 August 2010

References and notes

External links

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