On this day, March 2, 2001, Hossam Hassan, the coach of the Egyptian national team and a star, scored Al-Ahly The former Zamalek player scored his first goal in a Zamalek shirt against Al-Ahly, when he led the White Knight to victory over the Red Knight by three goals to one in the match that brought them together at Cairo Stadium.
Hossam Hassan opened the scoring for Zamalek, then Alaa Ibrahim equalized for Al-Ahly, and Medhat Abdel Hady returned to lead Zamalek before Hossam Hassan added the third goal..
Hossam Hassan was born on August 10, 1966 in Helwan. He began his football career with Al-Ahly Club in 1984, and continued until 1990. He participated in 81 matches during which he scored 34 goals. In the 1990/1991 season, he moved to the Greek club PAOK to begin his professional journey, and played with them 19 times. match and scored 6 goals, and Al-Ahly Club was the dean’s destination after making the decision to return home.
Al-Ahly played the match with a formation that included: Essam El-Hadary, Ishaq Awal, Shady Mohamed, Samir Kammouna, Ahmed El-Sayed, Saeed Abdel Aziz “Mohamed Gouda”, Sayed Abdel Hafeez, Hadi Khashaba, “Walid Salah El-Din”, Yasser Rayan “Hossam Ghaly”. , Alaa Ibrahim, Khaled Bebo.
While Zamalek played the match with a formation that included: Abdel Wahed Al-Sayed, Ibrahim Hassan, Medhat Abdel Hadi, Bashir Al-Tabei, Haitham Farouk, Tariq Al-Sayed, Hazem Emam, Tamer Abdel Hamid, Khaled Al-Ghandour, “Tariq Al-Saeed,” Hossam Hassan, “Ahmed Saleh.” “And Walid Salah Abdel Latif.
Hossam Hassan moved to Zamalek Club in 2000 in a deal that no one expected to happen, and with the arrival of the twins Hossam and Ibrahim to Zamalek, the team returned to the good times and championships returned to Mit Oqba after they had competed with him for a long time. The twins played in Zamalek for 4 seasons, starting from 2000 until 2004. During which they contributed to winning 11 championships.
Then he moved to the Egyptian Club and Al-Tersana, and from there to Al-Ittihad of Alexandria, but he did not shine with Al-Ittihad and terminated his contract with the Coastal Club in late 2007, after which the dean announced his retirement from football, and his retirement match has not been held yet.
Hossam Hassan participated with the national team in 170 international matches and scored 83 goals, the most important of which was the goal that qualified the Egyptian national team for the 1990 World Cup against the Algerian national team. He had a prominent role in the Egyptian national team’s victory in the African Cup of Nations in 1998 in Burkina Faso..
In 2001, before the start of the Egyptian national team’s match with the Senegalese national team in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, FIFA President Joseph Blatter, accompanied by Issa Hayatou and Michel Platini, went down to the floor of the Cairo International Stadium and imitated Hossam Hassan Bishara, the dean of the world’s players, amidst a tremendous ovation from his colleagues in the national team. Al-Masry and even a Senegalese national team player.
His last goal with the Egyptian national team was against the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 2006 African Cup of Nations. He was 5 months older than his 39th year, and he is the oldest player to score in the history of the African Cup. He is also the only player to have participated in two African national team tournaments, a time difference of 20 years between them..
The historical top scorer for the Egyptian national team and the record holder for international goals in the African continent, with 83 goals, and the top scorer in the history of Al-Ahly and Zamalek matches, 9 goals, including 5 for Al-Ahly in Zamalek and 4 for Zamalek in Al-Ahly..
Immediately after his retirement, Hossam Hassan headed to the field of coaching, where he led Al-Masry Club of Port Said in the second half of the Egyptian League season 2007/2008. Under Hossam’s leadership, Al-Masry managed to remain in the Egyptian League for eight matches after it was close to being relegated to the second division. He was the expected savior and returned to the team again. He moved between a number of clubs before recently taking over as coach of the Egyptian national team, succeeding Portuguese Rui Vitoria.