Youssef Nader

Goalkeeper - Ittihad
14 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Youssef Nader

16 Edition

The Ittihad Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed Tony

110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ittihad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Ittihad make it 8 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ittihad have 8 straight wins of it.

Squad

A fracture rules Body out for 54 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ittihad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Vintage Mabululu — 7.94

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout

Youssef Nader: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ittihad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Sobhy Soliman has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A falling-out at Ittihad

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

Player ratings

Hesham Balaha was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Match

Ittihad get the job done against Arab Contractors

A 1‑0 win over Arab Contractors, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

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The Ittihad Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Ittihad

Military Production will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ittihad were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Body breaks a bone — 85 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Abdelrahman Magdy's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Mabululu, 34, rolls back the years — 8.49

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.49 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Ittihad make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ittihad have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Sobhy Soliman is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ittihad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Ittihad

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

Player ratings

One of those days for John Okoye Ebuka

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A late step up for Youssef Nader

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

  • Squad Mostafa Ibrahim falls out with a teammate over standards
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Market Youssef Nader told to find a new club