Anwar Abdelsalam

Striker - Ismaily
17 Jan 2027
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Marked for Anwar Abdelsalam

22 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Dec 2026

The knee: Mohamed Naser out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ismaily lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market28 Dec 2026

Mohamed Zidan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ismaily they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Ismaily

Hesham Balaha 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words at Ismaily training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Ghazal 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A muscle injury sidelines Abdallah Hassan for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Ismaily will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Ali Ghazal stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.59 on the card, and the Ismaily support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Mohamed Hassan was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Bassem El Nenny was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Ismaily dressing room was either.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Ali El Malawany is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Nov 2026

Ahmed Adel stands alone

17 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Mohamed Naser damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match18 Nov 2026

Ismaily bow out of the cup

Aswan go through and Ismaily go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

No sign of nerves from Anwar Abdelsalam at 20 — 7.95

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Anwar Abdelsalam did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match21 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for Ismaily

5 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Ismaily

Éric Traoré and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Ismaily

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hesham Balaha was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match21 Nov 2026

Ismaily leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Mohamed Zidan

Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief