Islam Hesham

Striker - Police Union
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Marked for Islam Hesham

9 Edition

The Police Union Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Luis Alberto López

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

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Ahmed Yasser, 35, rolls back the years — 8.18

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.18 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Naledi Hlongwane

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Ahmed Nabil Manga 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 Police Union this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A move Percy Dolly would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Percy Dolly is living that version at Police Union, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match26 Sep 2026

Ahmed Yasser’s goal not enough for Police Union

Ahmed Yasser scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Al Gaish, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Police Union Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Sep 2026

Police Union taken apart

0‑3 to Masr El Makasa, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match12 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Police Union's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Police Union has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Luis Alberto López 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 Police Union this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ahmed Nabil Manga 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Ahmed Nabil Manga

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Nabil Manga, and the manager let it.

Boardroom14 Sep 2026

Doors closed at Police Union

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Market14 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Police Union and Xolani Ngcobo

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ali Fathi 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 ratings14 Sep 2026

The one thing Diego Jiménez could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

5 Edition

The Arab Contractors Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Ahmed Nader Hawash

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Charles Bassey asks to leave Arab Contractors

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market31 Aug 2026

Islam Hesham is on his way

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Shokry Naguib 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 Arab Contractors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Isaac Sackey 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ahmed Ouled Behi

“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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Arab Contractors Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Abdelrahman Akmal puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Arab Contractors, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Isaac Sackey pops up at the right end — 7.90

7.90, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Arab Contractors

Shokry Naguib was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Joseph Ochaya 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Arab Contractors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mostafa Gamal 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

The Islam Hesham conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Military Production will make the call about Islam Hesham this week. Arab Contractors have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Louay Wael 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Isaac Sackey rescues a point for Arab Contractors

It needed Isaac Sackey to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Al Gaish, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

The chances came and went for Hazem El Askry

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief