Mahmoud El-Gohary

Mahmoud El-Gohary
Personal information
Date of birthFebruary 20, 1938
Place of birthCairo, Egypt
Date of deathSeptember 3, 2012 (aged 74)
Place of deathAmman, Jordan
Playing positionStriker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1955–1961Al Ahly
National team
1958–1961Egypt
Teams managed
1965–1977Al Ahly (assistant)
1977–1981Al-Ittihad (assistant)
1981–1982Al-Ittihad
1982–1984Al Ahly
1984–1985Al-Sharjah
1985–1986Al Ahly
1986–1988Al-Ahli Jeddah
1988–1990Egypt
1991–1993Al Ahly
1993–1994Zamalek SC
1995–1996Al-Wahda
1996–1997Oman
1997–2001Egypt
2001–2007Jordan
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Mahmoud El-Gohary (Arabic: محمود الجوهري‎) (February 20, 1938 – September 3, 2012) was an Egyptian football coach and player. He is the first and one of two people, along with Nigeria's Stephen Keshi, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.

Career

El-Gohary is one of the most important figures in the history of Egyptian and African football, and is considered by many as the best Egyptian football coach ever. He was the top scorer of the 1959 edition of the African Cup of Nations, which was won by Egypt. He was the manager of the Egyptian national team from 1988 to 1990 and from 1997 to 2001.

He steered Egypt to the 1990 World Cup finals, after a 56-year absence from the tournament. In the first round, they managed to draw with the Netherlands and Ireland, before a 1–0 defeat by England eliminated them. In the wake of the Ireland game, there ensued a brief war of words between El-Gohary and Ireland's manager Jack Charlton, who sharply criticised Egypt for their time-wasting and negative tactics.

Under the leadership of El-Gohary, the Jordan national team was able to qualify for their first AFC Asian Cup tournament, in China 2004, and helped Jordan reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, but failed to qualify for the semifinals after losing to Japan in a penalty shoot-out after the match had ended with extra halves resulting 1-1. But thanks to El-Gohary, the Jordan team reached its highest FIFA world ranking, which was 37th place in 2004 Just like Serbian Branko, El-Gohary also helped Jordan achieve great match results in FIFA World Cup qualifications for 2006 in Jordan's first round, but also failed to help Jordan qualify. In the WAFF championship tournaments of 2004 and 2007, El-Gohary helped Jordan win third place in 2004 and helped Jordan reach the semifinals in 2007. After coaching Jordan for five out of six matches in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification, El-Gohary retired as a football coach, the Portuguese Nelo Vingada took over as head coach of Jordan but was not able to help Jordan qualify for the 2007 Asian Cup.

After he retired as a football coach, he became a board member of the Jordan Football Association working as the technical advisor.

He died on 3 September 2012 in Amman, Jordan.[1]

Achievements

As a player

National team

For Ahly

As a coach

Egypt national team

For Ahly (Egypt)

For Zamalek (Egypt)

For Al-Wehda (UAE):

Jordan national team

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Legendary Egyptian coach Mahmoud el Gohary dies ages 74". BBC Sport. 3 September 2012.

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