Mahmoud El-Gohary

Mahmoud El- Gohary ( born February 20, 1938 in Cairo; † 3 September 2012 in Amman, Jordan ) was an Egyptian football player and coach. The striker was the first to win the African Cup as a player (1959) and as a coach (1998); In 2013 Nigerian Stephen Keshi followed him. El- Gohary was also coach of Oman and the selection of Jordan, with whom he sensationally reached the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup 2004. He also won as a coach with two Egyptian teams the African Champions League ( 1982.1993 ).

Career

As a player, he won with the Egyptian national team, the African Cup of 1959 in his Egyptian homeland, a knee injury forced 1961 end of his career. As a coach ( called 'The General ') of the national team, the team qualified in his first term, 1988-90, after more than 50 years for the first time for a final, namely the 1990 World Cup, where they against Ireland 0-0 and the European champions Netherlands 1 1 played and defeated England 0-1. In his second term (1997 to 1999), he won the 32 -year-old striker Hossam Hassan legend the Africa Cup 1998 in Burkina Faso. In 2000 he was again briefly coach. As a club coach, he won the African Champions League with the Cairo arch rivals Al Ahly (1982 ) and Al Zamalek (1993). In 2009, he left, annoyed by association disputes, the country and worked in Jordan, where he died after a stroke in 2012.