Mahmoud El-Khatib
| Mahmoud El-Khatib | ||
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | October 30, 1954 | |
| place of birth | Aga , Egypt | |
| size | 184 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1969-1972 | al Ahly Cairo | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1972-1988 | al Ahly Cairo | 199 (108) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1974-1986 | Egypt | 54 (24) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Mahmoud Ibrahim El-Khatib ( Arabic محمود الخطيب Maḥmūd al-Chaṭīb , DMG Maḥmūd al-Ḫaṭīb ) (born October 30, 1954 in Aga , Ad-Daqahliyya ) is a former Egyptian football player . He is considered the “Egyptian Pelé ” and the best Egyptian footballer “of all time”.
Mahmoud El-Khatib, known as Bibo , grew up as the youngest of ten children of an official in a town in the Nile Delta . Even as a child he admired the Brazilian footballer Pelé and later, like his role model, preferably wore the shirt number ten. At the age of 16 he was hired by the renowned Cairo club Al-Ahly . In the following 18 years he won ten national titles and five trophies with this club. In 1982 and 1987 Al Ahly also won the African National Champions 'Cup with El-Khatib and the Cup Winners' Cup from 1984 to 1986.
In 1984 El-Khatib played for Egypt at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , where the Egyptian national team reached the second round at the Olympic Games for the first time since 1964. After Egypt won the African championship in front of a home crowd in Cairo in 1986, he resigned from the national team and ended his career two years later, during which he had only received two yellow cards . In addition, he still holds the record of 37 goals in 49 appearances at the African Cup of Champions Clubs .
In 1983 Mahmoud El-Khatib was voted Africa's Footballer of the Year and in 2007 the second best African player in the last 50 years , behind Cameroon's Roger Milla .
El-Khatib is now vice-president of Al-Ahly; he is committed u. a. as the SOS Children's Villages ambassador for the Middle East .
Web links
- Mahmoud El Khatib in the database of FIFA (English)
- Mahmoud El-Khatib in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Mahmoud El-Khatib: African player of the century on weekly.ahram.org v. 18 December 2003 (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ africa-international.info ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ahlyegypt.com
- ↑ sos-villages-d-enfants.ca (French)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Khatib, Mahmoud El- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | El-Khatib, Mahmoud Ibrahim (full name); Bibo (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aga , Ad-Daqahliyya , Egypt |