The Aswan Post
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 33 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Aswan
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Aswan are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Abdelrahman Magdy is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Aswan come up short against El Dakhleya
El Dakhleya left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Steve Hoffman 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Taoufik Ijrouten
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Cyriaque Sylla dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
An afternoon Roberto Pitio will want back
Marked 5.66. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the pace: Ali Ezzat
- Player ratings Abdelrahman Magdy could not find anything