Emad Moteab

Emad Moteab
Personal information
Full name Emad Mohamed Abd El Naby Ibrahim
Date of birth 20 February 1983 (1983-02-20) (age 29)
Place of birth Sharkia, Egypt
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Al-Ahly
Number 9
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2010 Al-Ahly 186 (94)
2008–2009 Ittihad Jeddah (loan) 21 (13)
2010–2011 Standard Liège 0 (0)
2011– Al-Ahly 14 (6)
Total 221 (113)
National team
2005– Egypt 63 (31)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:12, 1/2/2010 (UTC).

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11:12, 1/2/2010 (UTC)

Emad Moteab (Arabic: عماد متعب) (born February 20, 1983 in Sharkia, Egypt) is an Egyptian football striker. He plays for Al-Ahly Egyptian club as well as the Egyptian national team. At his current club Al-Ahly, some have commented that his combination with Mohamed Aboutrika and Mohamed Barakat formed the most formidable triangle in African Football, and they were given the moniker of "The Bermuda Triangle." The Angolan striker Flavio Amado replaces Barakat sometimes, playing a great role in forming this dangerous triangle. Moteab is considered one of the best strikers of his age in Africa. On November 14, 2009, he scored a game changing goal in the very last minute of the match, this gave Egypt a 2-0 lead defeating the Algerian team (2-0), forcing an extra game in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, which Algeria won 1-0.

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Early life

Emad Mohamed Abd El Naby Ibrahim was born in Sharqia Governorate east of Nile Delta, Egypt. He gained the nickname Moteab (Arabic: متعب) from his friends. He began his career with Al-Ahly youth Academy when he was 16, His potential and scoring talent has been discovered earlier which make Egyptian national U20 team Hassan Shehata call him up for 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship squad, In this tournament he scored a superb goal against England.

Club career

Al-Ahly

2004-2005

Moteab made his debut with Al-Ahly in the opening day of The Egyptian Premier League 2004-05 season after Portuguese manager Manuel José called him up for the first team squad against Suez Cement on 17 September 2004. After only 11 minutes in his debut he scored his first goal with Al-Ahly, leading the way for a 0-3 win. On 26 September 2004 Moteab made his second appearance with Al-Ahly against Tersana, but he did not find the net. On the third round of the league on 13 October 2004 he led Al-Ahly to a 0-1 win against Mansoura, four days later he scored his third goal in four matches against Ittihad on 17 October. On 4 November 2004 he played in his first Cairo derby against rivals Zamalek scoring his first goal in the derby matches in a 4-2 win. On 15 December 2004 at Haras El Hodood stadium He secured a 2-1 hard win for Al-Ahly over Haras El Hodood in the 94th minutes from a penalty kick. On 23 December he scored Ahly's second goal against Ghazl El-Mehalla form a penalty in 2-1 win. On 31 December he scored his 7th goal of the season against Tersana in 0-3 away win.

On 28 January 2005 Moteab led Al-Ahly for a hard 1-2 win over Baladeyet Al-Mahalla scoring two goals of the match; in first-half stoppage time, and the winning goal in second-half stoppage time after Mostafa Gaafar's goal in the 89th minute. On 12 February 2005 he scored in the Cairo derby in his second match, leading to a 3-0 win after Mohamed Aboutrika's double. On 18 February 2005 he scored his 11th goal of the league against Assuit Cement in a 1-3 win. On 18 February he scored his 12th goal against ENPPI in a 1-1 draw. On 31 March 2005 he scored Ahly's second goal in a 2-1 win against Haras El Hodood. On 14 April 2005 Moteab scored Ahly's 4th goal in a historical 0-6 away win over rivals Ismaily, after Barakat's hat-trick and Aboutrika's double. Moteab became the youngest player to be The Egyptian Premier League top scorer with 15 goals in 2004-05 season.[1]

In 2005 Motaeb also scored in the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship 5th place playoff against Sydney F.C. in Tokyo, although Sydney won the match 2-1. It was El Ahly's only goal of the tournament.

In 2007 Emad spent two weeks on Teesside whilst trialling for English premier league team Middlesbrough F.C.. Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate decided not to make a bid for the prolific marksman; Middlesbrough did however sign fellow team mate and triallist Mohamed Shawky.

Moteab was due to become Bristol City's record signing, for a fee of £1.5 million,[2] and indeed, he had passed the medical and was awaiting a work permit.[3] However, the move was cast into doubt when Emad played a full game for Al Ahly in the African Champions League while City were awaiting a work permit, after which they cancelled the signing of Moteab, as it was going against their terms in the transfer.[4]

Right after signing with Belgian Standard Liège in 2010, Meteb leaves Belgium without any explanation from his new club. Belgian press does not expect him to come back. In Egyptian media, Nader Shawky (Meteb's agent) says there were reasons for Meteb's change of heart, but refuses to expand; he makes it clear that he agreed with the player to hold silence until the problems are resolved, and that they will speak out as soon as that happens.

On 27 August it was reported that he signed with his former club a deal which will go through in the winter transfer market after he paid 300 thousand euros from the half million euros which the club wanted for terminating his contract. Although Emad fought with Al Ahly a lot and refused to renew his contract before signing with Standard, he agreed to return again. It may appear to be a mysterious part from his career, he is strange. He told many newspapers that he did not want to complete his contract because of his injuries, but in fact when Emad returned to Egypt he took his papers from his university to make the military call him to do his army (military duty). Also Ahmed Hassan told the media that Emad destroyed what he did in many years in two days when he returned to Egypt for no reason, Egypt coach Hassan Shehata told the media that most of the Egyptian players fail in Europe due to the lack of professionalism.

National team

He appeared as a member of the first team at the 2006 African Cup of Nations, scoring twice in the last group game against the Ivory Coast and once in the quarter final against the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt's Coach Hassan Shehata named him as giving the best effort for the team in the tournament. He also took part in the 2010 African cup of Nations and was a regular starter for Egypt along with Mohamed Zidan of Dortmund. He scored 2 goals in the tournament he is a regular for Egypt and wears the number 10 Shirt.

Titles

Club

With El Ahly

With Al-Ittihad

National team

Egyptian national team

Individual Titles

References

http://filgoal.com/Arabic/News.aspx?NewsID=71465 Emad motaeb signs for Al Ahly

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