The Aswan Post
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Aswan
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match3 Oct 2026
Aswan are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Islam Gamal 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Cyriaque Sylla pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Aswan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Steve Hoffman 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Aswan against Police Union
1‑2 to Police Union, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Taoufik Ijrouten
“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 ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Rudi Castro
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Mostafa Disha
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Aswan and Abdelaziz Mousa
- Player ratings Taoufik Ijrouten never got going
- Player ratings Hossam El Sanea could not find anything