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Ibrahim Hassan Hussein Ahmed (; born 10 August 1966) is an Egyptian football director and former professional
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player who played as a
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. He is currently the director of the Egyptian national team. Ibrahim Hassan has 131
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for Egypt. His twin brother Hossam also played professional football, and they shared clubs for most of their extensive careers.


Club career

Born in
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, Hassan played professionally for almost twenty years, in a career in which he shared teams with his sibling Hossam for its vast majority. He represented
Al Ahly Al-Ahly Sporting Club (), commonly known as Al-Ahly, is an Egyptian professional sports club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest ...
(twice),
PAOK FC PAOK FC (, ), short for "Pan-Thessalonian Sports club, Athletic Club of Constantinople, Constantinopolitans" (), and commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki, PAOK Salonika or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional Association football, football cl ...
,
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, Al Ain SCC,
Zamalek SC Zamalek Sporting Club (), commonly referred to as Zamalek, is an List of football clubs in Egypt, Egyptian Club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is best known for its professional men's Association football, football team, which plays in the Egy ...
and
Al-Masry Al Masry Sporting Club () is an Egyptian sports club based in Port Said, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team that competes in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest tier of the Egyptian football league system. ...
, even joining his twin in his overseas spells in
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. Hassan retired at almost 40 years of age, going on to have a spell as assistant manager with former team El-Masry, where his brother would also start his coaching career in 2008. In 2010, after a brief spell as assistant manager with Zamalek, he became the club's
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.


International career

Hassan played 131 games and scored 14 goals for
Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
over almost 20 years, as Hossam. He appeared for the national team at the
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, helping it to two draws and a narrow 0–1 defeat against
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. His brother was also an undisputed starter, as the pair became the first players from Africa to be selected to
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's Century Club. Hassan remains the only Egyptian footballer who made the "FIFA world team" selection (three times) and played in 1990 and 1999 against Bosnia and South Africa respectively.


Career statistics


International


Honours


Club

Al Ahly * Egyptian League: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99 *
Egypt Cup The Egypt Cup (also known as the Egyptian FA Cup and formerly as the King Farouk Cup) is the main knockout football cup competition in Egypt. It is the oldest club competition in Africa. The first team to win the trophy was Zamalek in 1922. Al A ...
: 1985, 1989, 1993, 1996 *
African Cup Winners' Cup The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of domestic cups in CAF-affiliated nations and w ...
: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1992–93 * African Champions League: 1986–87 *
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: 1995–96 *
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: 1993–94 *
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: 1997, 1998 * Afro-Asian Cup:
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: 1999–00 Zamalek * Egyptian League: 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04 *
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: 2001–02 *
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International

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See also

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List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps In association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official appearance for their national team. This article lists all men's football players who have played in 100 or more official internat ...


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassan, Ibrahim 1966 births Living people Egyptian twins Footballers from Cairo Egyptian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Al Ahly SC players Zamalek SC players Al Masry SC players Super League Greece players PAOK FC players Swiss Super League players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players Al Ain FC players Egypt men's international footballers 1990 FIFA World Cup players 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup players 1988 African Cup of Nations players 1992 African Cup of Nations players 2000 African Cup of Nations players Egyptian expatriate men's footballers Egyptian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates FIFA Men's Century Club Egyptian Premier League players UAE Pro League players Egyptian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Egyptian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates CAF Champions League–winning players 20th-century Egyptian sportsmen