Mohamed Zidan
Mohamed Zidan (2011)
Mohamed Abdullah Zidan (Arabic: محمد عبدالله زيدان, Muḥammad ʿ DMG Abdullāh Zidan, born December 11, 1981 in Port Said ) is an Egyptian football player who also has the German nationality.
- 3.1 club teams
- 3.2 national team
- 3.3 Awards and Records
Career
Association
The striker played for El Masry Port Said and the Danish clubs Akademisk BK Copenhagen and FC Midtjylland. In the 2003 /04 season he was player of the year and top scorer in the Danish SAS League.
During the winter break of the 2004/05 season Zidan joined the German first division club Werder Bremen. In his first two league games, he scored shortly after coming off the bench to score. Due to an injury early in 2005 he came to the end of season only rarely.
During the summer break in 2005 Zidan joined on loan for the 2005/ 06 season 1 FSV Mainz 05, in which he was a regular player and nine hits second best scorer of the team. On 4 February 2006, he scored on his own employer Werder Bremen after 13 seconds being the fastest goal of the Bundesliga season 2005/06.
Zidan returned in the summer of 2006 to Bremen. After a disappointing season so far for him, in which he was hardly used, obliged him Mainz 05 in the following winter break finally. In February 2007, Zidan was elected as the first Mainz players in an event organized by DFL, DSF and kicker Poll Player of the Month.
In summer 2007, Zidan moved to Hamburger SV. There he could not prevail also due to numerous injuries. At the beginning of the season 2008/ 09 he joined his former coach Juergen Klopp after Dortmund.
Round of 31 in 2009/ 10, Zidan pulled without any external assistance to a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and fell for seven and a half months. After Auskurierung his injury problems and strange departure from his native Egypt he gave on 17 November 2010 for the Egyptian national football team comeback in a friendly against Australia and scored in the 90th minute the score to 3-0 after a few minutes earlier in the game had come. Shortly after, on 2 December 2010 his comeback at Borussia Dortmund Karpaty Lviv to FK in the Europa League.
During the winter break of the 2011/12 season Zidan moved back to Mainz, where he received a contract until the summer of 2012. In his first six games, he scored a goal each. He first broke the record for winter recruits, which amounted to three goals in the first three games and eventually the record as a whole, the previously concentrated in the first five games with five goals and was previously held by Fredi Bobic.
A contract extension at the Mainz for the season 2012/13 did not happen because of disagreements with coach Thomas Tuchel. July 30, 2012 Zidan signed the Baniyas Sports Club in the United Arab Emirates a two year contract.
National
Zidan has 2007 National Player of Egypt. With this team he won the 2008 and 2010 Africa Cup. He gave it in two finals the template for each single goal of the match.
Personal
After winning the German championship in 2011 Zidan was awarded in addition to the Egyptian German citizenship at a reception in Dortmund's Town Hall on May 16, 2011.
Zidan was convicted of check fraud on November 20, 2013 Egypt in the absence of a court to a prison term of six years. The Egyptian real estate company Arab Company for Projects and Urban Development had filed against the former national player action. Zidan was alleged to have given the company issued three bad checks when buying real estate. The judgment was not final; the procedure was terminated after Zidan 's appeal.
Achievements
Club teams
- German Masters: 2011
National
- African Cup of Nations (2): 2008, 2010
Awards and Records
- Scorer in the Danish SAS League ( 1): 2004
- Player of the Year in Denmark ( 2): 2004, 2005
- Player of the Month (1): February 2007
- The Top Eleven of the African Cup (1 ): 2010
- Bundesliga record: Highest number of consecutive games with at least one shot per target of a new arrival ( six goals in the first six games ) with the first FSV Mainz 05