The ENPPI Herald
Market16 Aug 2027
ENPPI turn down Al Ahly for Ammar Hamdy
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market16 Aug 2027
Hossam Ghanem 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 ENPPI can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Adham Farid is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at ENPPI
Rafik Kabou 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A late step up for Ammar Hamdy
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at ENPPI
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Marco Antonio Bueno 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Walid Hamdi joins the ENPPI first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Walid Hamdi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Aug 2027
ENPPI promote Salah Fathy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Salah Fathy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- The terraces The stands have heard the Ammar Hamdy talk too
- Boardroom ENPPI spend where nobody can see it