El Sayed Warda

Striker - Masr El Makasa
10 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for El Sayed Warda

22 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Shikabala Ghaly damages knee ligaments — 105 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 105 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.

Squad

36 days out for El Sayed El Nenny after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Masr El Makasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Masr El Makasa win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. El Dakhleya will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Walid Ghaly, 21, steals the show — 8.17

Marked 8.17 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Masr El Makasa

Shikabala Ghaly 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.

Squad

The step up is real for El Sayed Warda

At 22 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Walid Ghaly

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Masr El Makasa see off El Dakhleya

Three points for Masr El Makasa, 1‑0 the final word against El Dakhleya in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

Trezeguet Hamdi has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Trezeguet Hamdi on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Walid Aboutrika keeps Masr El Makasa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Real improvement from El Sayed Warda at Masr El Makasa

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

Squad

A falling-out at Masr El Makasa

Walid Aboutrika and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Karim Zaki 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.

Match

Masr El Makasa come up short against El Masry

El Masry left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Trezeguet Hamdi: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hossam Gabr

“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.

The dugout

The form table has caught Mostafa Hamdi

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Fares Khlaed gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Fares Khlaed is on it.

In brief