The Haras El Hodoud Courier
Market16 Aug 2027
Momen Awad 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 Haras El Hodoud can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Ahmed Nayel at Haras El Hodoud
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ahmed Nayel is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Abdallah Hafez has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Haras El Hodoud
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
Mohamed Magli 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Roqa 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 Haras El Hodoud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mahmoud Zaki joins the Haras El Hodoud first team
- Market One of our own: Amr Marwan joins the Haras El Hodoud first team
- Market Mohamed Fathy steps up from the Haras El Hodoud academy
- Boardroom Haras El Hodoud spend it where nobody looks