Ali Ashour

Goalkeeper - Masr El Makasa
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ali Ashour

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The Masr El Makasa Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules El Sayed Aboutrika out for 26 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Trezeguet Gabr scores twice — 8.36

Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Ali Ashour hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Masr El Makasa can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Hossam Aboutrika is on his way

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

Squad

David Idowu 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 Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work

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

Masr El Makasa supporters have found a favourite in Trezeguet Gabr

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Trezeguet Gabr 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mahmoud Ezzat

“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.

Match

Trezeguet Gabr rescues a point for Masr El Makasa

It needed Trezeguet Gabr to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Police Union, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
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The Masr El Makasa Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Ahmed El Mohamady out for 30 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Smouha come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Masr El Makasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ali Ashour 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 Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Ahmed Jahouh for 16 days

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

Squad

Ibrahim Gabr signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ibrahim Gabr commits to Masr El Makasa for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Masr El Makasa

Ibrahim Gabr 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.

In brief