Ali Hamdi

Defensive Midfielder - Al Gaish
6 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ali Hamdi

16 Edition

The Al Gaish Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Al Gaish's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Al Gaish has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A fracture rules Camacho out for 40 days

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

The dugout

Khaled Awad says Al Gaish 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Al Gaish

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

Match

Smouha take the points off Al Gaish

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Mostafa Ghaly faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mostafa Ghaly after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Hassan Magdy 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.

The dugout

Yehia Mostafa 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

Ismaïl Ouro-Agoro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • The dugout No place in the plan for Ahmed Alaa
  • Squad Amro Tarek speaks, and the room listens
  • Player ratings The whistle followed Ali Hamdi around
Back issues
9 Edition

The Al Gaish Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Camacho out for 97 days

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

Player ratings

Ismaïl Ouro-Agoro beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

5 matches without a win for Al Gaish

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

Squad

Karim Tarek 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 Al Gaish this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ahmed Khaled

Marked 8.00 — 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.

Match

Late, late show earns Al Gaish a point

Minute 85, against Police Union, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Match

Ahmed Khaled rescues a point for Al Gaish

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

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Mostafa Ghaly on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Al Gaish

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Zamalek.

In brief