Ahmed Hassan

Ahmed Hassan (Arabic: أحمد حسن‎) (born 2 May 1975 in Maghagha, Egypt) is a retired Egyptian footballer who is currently the manager of Petrojet in the Egyptian Premier League. He played as an attacking midfielder or on the right wing for Egyptian national team. He is the most capped international male footballer in history with 184 appearances for Egypt.

Career

Ahmed Hassan started his professional football career as a right-back at Aswan Club in the Egyptian lower divisions. After one season there, he moved to the more successful Ismaily. He was 20 when he was selected for the first time to play in the Egyptian national team's friendly match against Ghana on 29 December 1995. After his impressive performances with the Egyptian national team in the African Cup of Nations 1998, including scoring a goal from a long range shot against South Africa in the final that helped the squad win the tournament, Hassan joined Turkish side Kocaelispor at the age of 22. In 2000, he was transferred to Denizlispor before joining his Egyptian international teammate Abdel-Zaher El-Saqua in 2001 when he moved to Gençlerbirliği. Following three successful seasons with the club, during which the team twice made the Turkish Cup Final, he moved to Beşiktaş where he was a first team regular as well as a regular on the team's scoring sheet. He particularly impressed manager Jean Tigana who, despite being known for selecting younger players for his first team, still regarded the 30-year-old Hassan a key player of the squad. Tigana stated that "Hassan is a hardworking player who is quick and talented."

Ahmad Hassan

Ahmad Hassan is a Syrian diplomat and politician who served as information minister from 2003 to 2004.

Early life

Hassan hails from an Alawi family based in Tartous. He was born in a village near Lattakia and later moved to Baniyas.

Career

Hassan served as the head of the first Baathist school in the 1960s. He is a member of Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and close to former vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam. He was also an auxiliary-member of the National Leadership until 1984 when then president Hafez Assad removed the Khaddam faction from the Leadership.

Hassan served as Syria's ambassador to Iran for a long time. He was appointed information minister in 2003 and replaced Adnan Omran in the post. Hassan's term ended in October 2004 and he was succeeded by Mahdi Dakhlallah as information minister.

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