The El Masry Chronicle
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mahmoud Hamada 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 Masry this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Diego Córdoba wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and El Masry know it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Kingsley Eduwo sends El Masry past Police Union
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kingsley Eduwo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to El Masry.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Kingsley Eduwo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Rafael Barros
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafael Barros, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Mahmoud Hamada
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kingsley Eduwo is off the mark for El Masry
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Yaw Ackah
13 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Oussama Zemraoui runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Hossam Hassan leaves for nothing
- Market Ahmed Waheb leaves for nothing
- Market Belia leaves for nothing