Amr Zaky

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Amr Zaky
Full name	Amr Hassan Zaky
Date of birth	April 1, 1983 (1983-04-01) (age 25)
Place of birth	Mansoura, Egypt
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	El Zamalek
Youth clubs
	Al-Mansoura
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001-2003 2003-2005 2006 2006-	Al-Mansoura ENPPI Lokomotiv Moscow Al-Zamalek	? (8) ? (24) 0 (0) 54 (22)
National team
2005-Present	Egypt	40 (21)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Amr Hassan Zaky (Arabic : عمرو حسن زكى, sometimes spelt Zaki) (born April 1, 1983 in Mansoura) is an Egyptian professional footballer. He plays for Egyptian Side El Zamalek as well as Egypt. Zaky started his career at Al-Mansoura Football Club in Egypt before moving to ENPPI in the 2003-2004 season. At ENPPI, he was the top scorer in the league for the 2004/2005 season and helped the club win its first trophy, the 2005 Egyptian Cup, as well as being runners-up in the Egyptian Premier League, their best position ever. After impressing in the 2006 African Nations Cup, Zaky caught the attention of many clubs, such as El Zamalek and Al-Ahly from Egypt, Al-Ain FC from the UAE, and French team Nantes. He finally decided to play for Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow, who signed him for a reported $2 million. However, he did not play a single match for Lokomotiv. In 2006 Zaky moved back to Egypt to play for El Zamalek, where he became their most important goalscorer.

1 International Career
2 Honours
3 External links
4 References

[edit] International Career

Zaky plays for Egypt. In the 2006 African Cup of Nations Zaky scored the winning goal for Egypt in the semi-final against Senegal late in the second half seconds after coming off the bench. Egypt went on to win their fifth continental title.

Zaky repeated his strong performances two years later in CAN 2008, scoring another well executed header and then adding another in the semi-final match against Ivory Coast. Egypt again went on to win the title for a record sixth time.

He was chosen in the CAN 2008 All Star Starting XI.

Zaky suffering from some problems in his knee