The Haras El Hodoud Courier
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Amr Gamal, 35, rolls back the years — 7.90
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match13 Mar 2027
Haras El Hodoud make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Haras El Hodoud have 4 straight wins of it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Momen Awad says Haras El Hodoud went back on their word
“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.
Market15 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Ahmed Nayel
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmed Nayel will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Haras El Hodoud the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Haras El Hodoud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Magli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Fawzi El Henawy 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 Haras El Hodoud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Mar 2027
Haras El Hodoud find a way past Al Gaish
Al Gaish made Haras El Hodoud work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Fawzi El Henawy beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Ahmed Hamdi kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
- Squad Mohamed Magli has to sit this one out
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ibrahim Abdelhakim
- Looking ahead Mahmoud El Zanfaly goes back to face Aswan