Mahmoud Ezzat

Central Defender - Police Union
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mahmoud Ezzat

18 Edition

The Police Union Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Police Union taken apart

0‑3 to ENPPI, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Mohamed Abdelsalam asks to leave Police Union

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad

Ezequiel Viola 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

Lucas Santos wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Police Union know it.

Squad

Words at Police Union training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Morales 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Adama Niane

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Police Union

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 ratings

Ahmed Yasser could not find anything

5.35. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Police Union Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Police Union out

Out, 0‑2 to Military Production, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Mohamed Atwa puts it in writing

“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 Police Union, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

5 matches without a win for Police Union

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Police Union are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Police Union

Gabriel Morales 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.

Squad

Adama Niane 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.

Squad

Mahmoud Ezzat 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 ratings

A masterclass from Gabriel Morales

Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Ahmed Abdallah 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.

Squad

Ismail El Haddad 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Police Union Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 24 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad

Police Union lose Ahmed Yasser

46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Police Union

Ezequiel Viola 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Police Union

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Gabriel Morales 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Police Union against Arab Contractors

0‑2 to Arab Contractors, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Morales

“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.

Market

Police Union promote Trezeguet Marwan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Trezeguet Marwan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Police Union promote Shikabala Zaki from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shikabala Zaki has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief