The Masr El Makasa Courier
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Match26 Dec 2026
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 ratings28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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 terraces28 Dec 2026
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.
Match26 Dec 2026
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
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
- The dugout Walid Elneny knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Mahmoud Kahraba gets picked when it counts
- Player ratings Walid Elneny was unplayable