Football World Cup 1990 / Egypt

This article covers the Egyptian national football team at the 1990 World Cup .

qualification

First round

As one of the top eight teams in Africa (according to FIFA), Egypt had a bye.

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Egypt	6: 2	8th
2	Liberia	2: 3	6th
3	Malawi	3: 4	5
4th	Kenya	2: 4	5

Egypt	-	Liberia	2-0
Malawi	-	Egypt	1: 1
Kenya	-	Egypt	0-0
Liberia	-	Egypt	1-0
Egypt	-	Malawi	1-0
Egypt	-	Kenya	2-0

Third round

Algeria	-	Egypt	0-0
Egypt	-	Algeria	1-0

Egyptian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Ahmed Shobair	al Ahly Cairo	09/28/1960	3	0	1	0
21st	Ayman Taher Kandil	al Zamalek SC	07/01/1966	0	0	0	0
22nd	Sabet El-Batal	al Ahly Cairo	09/16/1953	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Ibrahim Hassan	al Ahly Cairo	08/10/1966	3	0	1	0
3	Rabie Yassin	al Ahly Cairo	07.09.1960	3	0	0	0
4th	Hany Ramzy	al Ahly Cairo	03/10/1969	3	0	0	0
5	Hesham Yakan	al Zamalek SC	08/10/1962	3	0	0	0
6th	Ashraf Kasem	al Zamalek SC	07/25/1966	0	0	0	0
13	Ahmed Ramzy	al Zamalek SC	10/25/1965	2	0	1	0
midfield player
7th	Ismaïl Youssef	al Zamalek SC	06/28/1964	3	0	0	0
8th	Magdi Abdelghani	SC Beira Mar	07/27/1959	3	1	1	0
10	Gamal Abdelhamid	al Zamalek SC	11/24/1957	3	0	0	0
11	Tarek Soliman	al-Masry	01/24/1962	1	0	0	0
12	Taher Abouzaid	al Ahly Cairo	04/01/1962	1	0	0	0
14th	Alaa Maihoub	al Ahly Cairo	01/19/1963	0	0	0	0
15th	Saber oath	al Mahala	05/01/1959	0	0	0	0
16	Magdy Tolba	PAOK Thessaloniki	02/24/1964	2	0	0	0
18th	Osama Orabi	al Ahly Cairo	01/25/1962	1	0	0	0
striker
9	Hossam Hassan	al Ahly Cairo	08/10/1966	3	0	0	0
17th	Ayman Shawky	al Ahly Cairo	December 9, 1962	0	0	0	0
19th	Adel Abdelrahman	al Ahly Cairo	12/11/1967	2	0	0	0
20th	Ahmed El-Kass	El-Olympi Alexandra	07/08/1965	3	0	0	0
Trainer
	Mahmoud El-Gohary		02/20/1938

Games of the Egyptian team

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	2: 1	4th
2	Republic of Ireland	2: 2	3
	Netherlands	2: 2	3
4th	Egypt	1: 2	2

• Netherlands - Egypt 1: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Stadio La Favorita ( Palermo )

Spectators: 33,421

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren ( Spain )

Goals: 1-0 Kieft (58th), 1: 1 Abdelghani (83rd) 11m

• Republic of Ireland - Egypt 0: 0 (0: 0)

Stadium: Stadio La Favorita ( Palermo )

Spectators: 33,288

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove ( Belgium )

Goals: none

• England - Egypt 1: 0 (0: 0)

Stadium: Stadio Sant'Elia ( Cagliari )

Spectators: 34,959

Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger ( Switzerland )

Goals: 1-0 Wright (64th)

Only in the last game of Group F England secured the group victory with a thin 1-0 against the uncomfortable team from Egypt. All five previous matches ended in a draw and showed unappealing, sometimes even annoyingly bad football. The officials thus narrowly escaped a novelty, because for the first time the lot would have to decide on the entry into the round of 16 if England and Egypt had also delivered a draw. But Ireland and the Netherlands slipped into the round of 16 despite their poor performance.