Ahmed Ayman

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Marked for Ahmed Ayman

17 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match18 Nov 2026

Nader Farag sends Ismaily through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nader Farag obliged against Aswan. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Ismaily.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Abdelrahman Mahrous stands alone

8 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.

Match21 Nov 2026

Nobody wants to play Ismaily right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

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.

The terraces23 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Ibrahim El Nagaawy

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match21 Nov 2026

Stephen Odey the difference as Ismaily beat Al Gaish

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stephen Odey. 1‑0 against Al Gaish, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Hamada Salah shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

One of those days for Stephen Odey

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Ahmed Ayman

“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

  • Squad Fathy Salah falls out with a teammate over standards
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings Ibrahim El Nagaawy runs at them all day
Back issues
13 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Abdallah Mohamed keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ismaily may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Ismaily

Mohamed Hassan 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Éric Traoré 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Ahmed Ayman

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

Match24 Oct 2026

El Dakhleya snatch it back from Ismaily

A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Ismaily keep their word to Ziad Farag

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Ismaily are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Match24 Oct 2026

Ismaily and El Dakhleya take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Half-satisfied: Ashraf Ashour on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

10 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Ali El Malawany

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Ahmed Ayman at Ismaily

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ahmed Ayman is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Ismaily

Ahmed Adel 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Ismaily

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

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Mohamed Naser was the difference for Ismaily

Marked 7.38. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Ashraf Ashour: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ibrahim El Nagaawy sits behind a loan signing

He is 18, he came through every age group here, and a borrowed player of about the same level starts every week ahead of him. The academy has noticed and so have the parents.

Match3 Oct 2026

Ismaily and Ittihad cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ittihad came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Abdallah Mohamed does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

9 Edition

The Ismaily Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Mohamed Hassan yet — 7.81

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Konta

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad28 Sep 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Ismaily find a way past Arab Contractors

Arab Contractors made Ismaily work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Stephen Odey was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Ismaily training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali El Malawany 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 Sep 2026

5 new faces, and Ismaily are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Ashraf Ashour, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Seun Ogunribide was immovable

15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief