Mahmoud El-Khatib

Mahmoud Ibrahim El -Khatib (Arabic: محمود الخطيب Mahmoud al - Khatib, Mahmoud al - Khatib DMG ) ( born October 30, 1954 in Aga, ad Daqahliyya ) is a former Egyptian football player. He is known as " Egyptian Pelé " and best Egyptian football player " of all time".

Mahmoud El -Khatib, called Bibo, grew up as the youngest of ten children of a civil servant to a place in the Nile Delta. Even as a child he admired the Brazilian footballer Pele wore and later, as his role model, preferably wear the number ten. At age 16, he was bound by the renowned Cairo club Al -Ahly. Over the next 18 years, he won with this club ten national titles and five times the trophy. 1982 and 1987 won Al Ahly El -Khatib also the African Champions Cup and 1984 to 1986 resulted in the Cup Winners' Cup.

1984 El -Khatib played for Egypt at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where the Egyptian national team since 1964 at the Olympic Games reached the second round for the first time. After Egypt was in 1986 made ​​before a home crowd in Cairo African champions, he resigned from the national team and finished two years later, his career, during which he had received two yellow cards. He also still holds the record of 37 goals in 49 appearances for the African Cup of Champions Clubs.

1983 Mahmoud El -Khatib was voted African Footballer of the Year and 2007 as the second best African player of the past 50 years, behind the Cameroonian Roger Milla.

El -Khatib is currently vice - president of Al -Ahly; he is engaged, inter alia, to as an ambassador for SOS Children's Villages for the Middle East.