The El Dakhleya Courier
Match16 Sep 2026
The small margins put El Dakhleya out
Out, 0‑1 to Masr El Makasa, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Abdelnasr Mohamed out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason El Dakhleya will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Kassoum Ouattara, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.96
A mark of 8.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A first appearance Abdelaziz El Zoghbi will want to forget — 5.75
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.75, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sherif Dabo 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 El Dakhleya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at El Dakhleya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduardo Acosta 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
El Dakhleya supporters have found a favourite in Kassoum Ouattara
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Kassoum Ouattara has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Sep 2026
Kassoum Ouattara sends El Dakhleya past Aswan
It finished 2‑0, and it was Kassoum Ouattara’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to El Dakhleya.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías Villalba
“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
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Reda Mohamed
- Player ratings Off the pace: Nader Ramadan
- Market The Ahmed Sayed Gharib story refuses to die