Abdallah Mohamed

Central Defender - Ismaily
12 Feb 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Abdallah Mohamed

14 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Mohamed Naser out for 82 days

82 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ismaily lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Mohamed Zidan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ismaily they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Ismaily

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hesham Balaha

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Ismaily training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hesham Balaha 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

Abdallah Mohamed 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.

Market

Ismaily and Hesham Balaha are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Stephen Odey's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

A step back for Mohamed Zidan at Ismaily

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mohamed Naser damages knee ligaments — 107 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

4 matches without a win for Ismaily

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ismaily are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Éric Traoré was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Éric Traoré 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 Ismaily this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Ismaily

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

Player ratings

The afternoon ran through Khaled Al-Nabris

Chances created: 15. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.

Squad

Hassan Mansour stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hassan Mansour and Ismaily agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mohamed Ammar

“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 ratings

The chances came and went for Stephen Odey

22 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

  • The dugout A promise honoured for Abdallah Mohamed
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Ali Ghazal does not fit this one