Ahmed Hassan
Ahmed Hassan Kamel (Arabic أحمد حسن, DMG Aḥmad Ḥasan; born 2 May 1975 in Maghagha, Minya Governorate ) is an Egyptian footballer who is since summer 2011 at Zamalek SC under contract. The midfielder took the national team between 1998 and 2010 participated in seven African Championship and has since February 27, 2012 World 's most capped player.
Club career
Ahmed Hassan began in his hometown located on the Nile Maghagha playing football. His professional career started Hassan in his youth club Aswan Club. After a year, however, he left the club in the direction Ismaily SC, a slightly more successful club. After the Africa Cup 1998 Hassan joined the Turkish league to Kocaelispor. 2000 then he moved to Denizlispor. In 2001, Hassan followed his team-mate Abdel Zaher El- Saqua to Gençlerbirliği. After three successful years in which he was twice in the final of the Turkish Cup, he moved to Beşiktaş Istanbul.
RSC Anderlecht
After he was elected at the African Cup of Nations in 2006 as the best player of the tournament, several European top clubs were interested in him, such as Fulham, Newcastle United and Barcelona Espanyol. However, Hassan decided for RSC Anderlecht and eventually switched free transfer in the Belgian league. With Anderlecht Hassan succeeded immediately qualifying for the UEFA Champions League. In the middle of RSC Anderlecht, he formed a unit with Lucas Biglia and Jan Polák. Eventually he gave to the beginning of the season 2007/2008 announced that this would be his last for Anderlecht. His family returned in 2007 to Egypt. In the election for the Belgian Golden Shoe, finishing second behind Steven Defour.
Return to Egypt
To end his career, he returned to the Egyptian League and signed a two-year contract, which runs from May 2008 at Al -Ahly Cairo. In his first two games for the club he scored two goals.
Career Stats
Career in the national team
On 29 December 1995 Hassan graduated with Ruud Krol in the 1-2 defeat against Ghana, his first cap for the national team of Egypt. In the 1996 Africa Cup of Hassan was indeed in the squad of the Pharaohs, but did not play. In the 7-1 win over Namibia in World Cup qualifier on 8 November 1996, the Egyptians scored his Premierentor.
Between 1998 and 2010, Ahmed Hassan came in seven consecutive championships Africa for use; in 32 games of the Egyptians scored eight goals. 1999 and 2009 also came Hassan to six inserts and a hit in the Confederations Cup.
During the Africa Cup 2010 Ahmed Hassan played his 170th international match and surpassed so Hossam Hassan as Egypt's most capped player. With the use of 178 on 14 November 2011 he presented the then accepted record of Saudi Mohammad an ad -Da ʿ ʿ ayya as the world 's most capped player; 27 February 2012 Hassan became the sole world record holder. By May 2012, the last 37 -year-old played a total of 184 matches in which he scored 33 Torerfolge.
- African champions: 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010; Participation in 1996 ( without insert), 2000, 2002, 2004
- " Silver Shoe " of the African Cup of Nations: 2006 ( four goals ), 2010 ( three goals)
- Best player of the Africa Cup: 2006, 2010