Marked for Mody
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market16 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ENPPI, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for ENPPI
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around ENPPI are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at ENPPI
Rafik Kabou was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Kalosha, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑1 to El Dakhleya, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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Squad
Words at ENPPI training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Kahraba runs at them all day
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Player ratings
An afternoon Ahmed Zaki will want back
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Player ratings
An afternoon Mohab Samy will want back
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Crisis
Market9 Nov 2026
Ahmed Kalosha hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what ENPPI can pretend not to have heard.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to ENPPI's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at ENPPI has to find a result from somewhere.
Market9 Nov 2026
Hossam Ghanem has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around ENPPI they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Rafik Kabou in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ENPPI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Rafik Kabou gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for ENPPI against Al Ahly
0‑1 to Al Ahly, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Mody falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Jesús Vera
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. ENPPI told Jesús Vera something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Kahraba runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
A hiding for ENPPI
Beaten 1‑4 by Arab Contractors, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Rafik Kabou in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ENPPI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Sabeha, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Mody Naser was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.32. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Doors closed at ENPPI
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Kahraba runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at ENPPI
Rafik Kabou was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Mody Naser at his very best
Marked 8.48. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at ENPPI.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mohamed Hathout
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad19 Oct 2026
ENPPI pick somebody else ahead of Mody
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at ENPPI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Rafik Kabou in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ENPPI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mohab Samy is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ahmed Said gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Kahraba
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mody dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Rafik Kabou in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ENPPI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Hazem Temsah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Kahraba runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mody dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at ENPPI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssef Labib is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
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Match
Point won or two lost for ENPPI?
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Player ratings
A day to forget for Jesús Vera
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ahmed Sabeha pops up at the right end — 7.98
7.98, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A first appearance Hamed Abdallah will want to forget — 5.80
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.80, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at ENPPI
Rafik Kabou was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jesús Vera, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
ENPPI and Smouha take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad21 Sep 2026
ENPPI pick somebody else ahead of Mody
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.