Mahmoud Nuseir Youssef El-Gohary (; 20 February 1938 – 31 August 2012) was an Egyptian footballer and football coach.Mahmoud El-Gohary's obituary
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Career

As a player, El-Gohary had a short-lived career. A persistent knee injury forced him into early retirement in 1961, cutting short a promising career. In the 1959 African Cup of Nations, which Egypt won, he ended as the top scorer in the competition. He was also part of Egypt's squad for the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

. After his retirement from the game, El-Gohary became a coach with Al Ahly, eventually becoming an assistant manager from 1965 to 1977. In 1977, he became assistant manager to Dettmar Cramer at Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. Cramer left Al-Ittihad at the end of the 1981 season and El-Gohary was promoted to manager. Al-Ittihad won their first ever Saudi Premier League and El-Gohary won the first of many trophies as a manager. At Al Ahly, he won the first African League titles – African League Winners and African League Cup winners. With

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, he won the 1993 African Cup of Champions Clubs and the first African Super Cup in

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

against Al Ahly in the famous African Super of the 20th Century. Under his leadership, Egypt’s national football team, he qualified for the

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1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

, after the country's 56-year absence from the tournament. He also won with Egypt the Arab Cup in

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

and the

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. Under El-Gohary's management, the Jordanian national football team reached the highest

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in history when they reached 37th rank in August 2004. Under the leadership of El-Gohary, the Jordanian national team qualified for their first (AFC)

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in China 2004. Jordan reached the quarterfinals of the tournament but failed to qualify for the semifinals after losing to Japan in a penalty shoot-out, resulting in a score of 1–1. In the West Asian Football Federation Championship Tournaments of 2004 and 2007, El-Gohary helped Jordan win third place. After he retired as a football coach, he worked as the technical director for the

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. Later, he became the technical adviser for the

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. He helped to transform the Jordanian Football League into a professional body. He died on 31 August 2012, in

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Honours

Player

Al Ahly *

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: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61 *

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: 1956, 1958, 1961 Egypt *

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1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

Manager

Al-Ittihad Club * Saudi Premier League: 1981–82 Al Ahly *

: 1985–86 *

: 1984, 1985, 1992, 1993 * African Cup of Champions Clubs:

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

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 ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

Zamalek * African Cup of Champions Clubs:

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

CAF Super Cup The CAF Super Cup, known as TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual African association football competition contested between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The competition was f ...

Egypt * Arab Nations Cup:

References

External links

''BBC Sport'' profile

at egyptianfootball.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Gohary, Mahmoud 1938 births 2012 deaths Footballers from Cairo Men's association football midfielders Egyptian men's footballers Al Ahly SC players Egypt men's international footballers 1959 African Cup of Nations players Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Egypt Egyptian football managers Egyptian expatriate football managers Zamalek SC managers Al Wahda FC managers Al Ahly SC managers Egypt national football team managers 1990 FIFA World Cup managers 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup managers 2004 AFC Asian Cup managers Jordan national football team managers Al-Ahli Saudi FC managers Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah) managers Africa Cup of Nations–winning players 1992 African Cup of Nations managers 1998 African Cup of Nations managers 2002 African Cup of Nations managers Egyptian Premier League players 20th-century Egyptian sportsmen