Ahmed Daouda

Central Midfielder - Police Union
8 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ahmed Daouda

18 Edition

The Police Union Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Police Union

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Police Union board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Player ratings

Shuaibu Garba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Police Union

Mahmoud Alaa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Police Union training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Jakobsen 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.

The dugout

Seth Paintsil 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.

Match

Ahmed Daouda rescues a point for Police Union

It needed Ahmed Daouda to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Smouha, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

When it matters, Mas´ud Danjuma plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Abdallah El Shenawy was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Police Union dressing room was either.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Police Union Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ahmed Nabil Manga 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 Police Union this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ahmed Daouda is slowing down

At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

A row about effort at Police Union

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexander Jakobsen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Israel Oladeji

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Israel Oladeji, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Israel Oladeji gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Israel Oladeji is on it.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Abdallah El Shenawy chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Walid Ouabdi asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Match

Police Union and Zamalek cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Zamalek came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Squad

Ahmed Daouda has taken the shirt

At 37 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Police Union are won quietly and lost loudly.

In brief

1 Edition

The Police Union Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nwanna Okechukwu arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nwanna Okechukwu has, at Police Union, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Ahmed Abdallah signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ahmed Abdallah commits to Police Union for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Police Union

Mahmoud Ezzat and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Police Union

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexander Jakobsen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Fadel Sherif

Police Union asked and Military Production said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Still no ink between Police Union and Nwanna Okechukwu

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Police Union, another week without a signature from Nwanna Okechukwu.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Hazem Gamal is in the works

Police Union have made the call to Al Ahly. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Police Union ask about Ahmed Zizo

A loan enquiry to Masr El Makasa: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Police Union bring in an old head

Mody is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief