Sherif El-Masri (born 5 February 1990) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger.

Early and personal life

He was born in Scarborough,

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to a Tunisian father and a Guyanese mother. His younger sister Mariam is also a footballer who represents Guyana internationally.

Club career

He began playing for Wexford SC at the age of five. He joined the

Toronto Lynx Toronto Lynx was a Canadian soccer team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1997, the team last played in the 2014 season of the Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Great Lakes ...

when he was 14. When he was 16, he went to Italy for two months training with

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before he decided to return to Canada to finish his high school diploma. He played for the Lynx senior team in the

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in 2008. In 2008, he went to France where he joined

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in the

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. Late in 2018, he went to Singapore for a soccer trial, where he played two games, scoring a hat-trick in the first game. From this trial, he joined Singaporean club

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in 2009, spending the 2010 and 2011 seasons with their senior team. He then moved to Young Lions, playing for them for the 2012 to 2015 seasons.

International career

El-Masri made three appearances for the Canadian under-23 national team in 2012. In November 2015 he announced his desire to represent

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at international level, subject to receiving a Singaporean passport. He was announced as part of the Guyana senior team's provisional squad in September 2016.

Honours

;Home United *

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: 2011

References

1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Scarborough, Toronto Canadian sportspeople of Guyanese descent Canadian people of Tunisian descent Soccer players from Toronto Canadian soccer players Home United FC players Young Lions FC players Singapore Premier League players Association football wingers Canada men's under-23 international soccer players Canadian expatriate soccer players Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Singapore Expatriate footballers in Singapore Toronto Lynx players FC Rouen players Canadian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate footballers in France USL League Two players Alliance United FC players {{Canada-footy-bio-stub