The Aswan Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hesham Balaha gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hesham Balaha has just signed for Aswan, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hesham Balaha 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kavala tell Aswan: Bilal Mazhar is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Abdallah Soliman joins the Aswan first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdallah Soliman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ibrahim Sobhi joins the Aswan first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ibrahim Sobhi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
El Sayed Trezeguet steps up from the Aswan academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. El Sayed Trezeguet has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ashraf Mohsen joins the Aswan first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ashraf Mohsen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Bismark Asante behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Aswan will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Aswan try to borrow Karim Fouad
Al Ahly have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets Aswan ask about Favour Ogbu
- Squad 6 new faces, and Aswan are still learning each other
- Looking ahead A reunion for Hossam Arafat