Ismail Ahmed Abdelmoneim
No. 10 – Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut | ||||||||||||||||
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Position | Power forward | |||||||||||||||
League | Lebanese Basketball League | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
[1] Alexandria, Egypt | September 23, 1976|||||||||||||||
Nationality | Egyptian-Lebanese | |||||||||||||||
Listed height | 2.05[1] m (6 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 244.2 lb (111 kg) | |||||||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1993–present | |||||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||||
1993–1997 | Al Ittihad Alexandria Club | |||||||||||||||
1999 | Hekmeh BC | |||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut | |||||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Al Ittihad Alexandria Club | |||||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Champville SC | |||||||||||||||
2005–2017 | Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut | |||||||||||||||
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Ismail Ahmed (Arabic: إسماعيل أحمد), born September 23, 1976) is an Egyptian-Lebanese professional basketball player currently playing for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut in the Lebanese Basketball League. He was also a main member of the Egypt national basketball team that participated in the FIBA Africa Championship 2001 in Casablanca in Morocco and in the FIBA Africa Championship 2003 which took place in Alexandria,Egypt.
Professional career
The story of "the Egyptian pharaoh" began in 1996 when his team Ittihad went to Lebanon to participate in the Arab Clubs Championship, which was held at the time on Al Kahraba Stadium in Zouk Mikael. The reputation of timely young age, namely 20 years. He succeeded in leading the team to the championship title at the expense of Lebanese Sagesse Beirut in the final. Everyone watched the tournament asked about this tall young man .
From then he came with his team to go to a camp of Lebanon in 1997, the head of the Wardia club Nadi Salim Samaha made an offer for him to join the
team, which was supervised by the timely Fouad Abu Shaqra.
Being Loaned from Wardia to play with Sagesse Beirut in the Arab Club Championship in 1998. Ahmed played a historic role in the green fingernail team title, as it was late in front of Boufarik wisdom with the end of the first half of the final meeting, 45-37, and pushed the coach Ghassan Sarkis Ahmed instead of Senegalese Ndiaye in Asan the beginning of the second half and scored 21 points, Ahmed, and several pieces of crucial balls was enough to change the course of play. Also it passed a crucial balls. The story was the second Arab surname and first with the Lebanese team.
Leroy's reputation for "Eurosport" Some of the things that may not be known to the new generation, including that he was close to playing with the wisdom in the championship Lebanon: played with wisdom on loan, and then the club management has sought to sign me, and I did not mind, but at the time you are connected contract with Ittihad was not that I could leave.
After the Rosary, play reputation with sports in 1999 under the leadership of the Egyptian coach Azmi Sharif before returning to Egypt to play with Ittihad and then returned to Lebanon from Champville gate in 2002. The following season, 2003-2004, because they will never forget one of the final series before the wisdom was of the most beautiful in the history of the Lebanese basketball. Every game which went to extra time, but it is because of them, after the forms in the final, legend Antoine Choueiry Prime wise Nadi decided at the time, that abandons the game, followed by a decision of the head of Champville Nadi at the time of the late Henry Shalhoub to leave Champville and his team, deceived historic deal remained raised displayed on basketball for seven years, since he moved reputation and six players from Champville accompanied by coach Abou chakra to the ranks of sports. There, judge athlete grip on Lebanese championship and take off his cloak failures which stayed with him between 98 and 2004, there was not left title only made from Lebanon to the Arab Championship and the region and finally Asia in 2011 are all fingerprints are clear for "reputation".
2002 -2003 NBA Summer League
Contact the agent Egyptian businessman has been living in America Ismail Ahmed summer of 2002, Ahmed went to the United States to experience his luck in the world to play in the strongest league of the NBA. , Participating with the Houston Rockets in the summer league and then the Miami Heat in the following year.
Angered reputation that "this experiment were not successful. I did not get enough time on the pitch and different reasons. They were at the time did not want a player the centers, and for world of the NBA is linked very much strongly business agents and their grip and policies to which they belong and that you do not have a proxy a successful businessman and witty Vhzawzk will not be high. "
National Team
Nothing is missing march Ismail, nothing, just one missing link, namely the Egyptian team. It did not achieve the reputation of the major achievements of his team with the exception of and winning cycle African Games three times. But these achievements do not satisfy the aspirations of the reputation or equal to the size of the domestic achievements.
He said the reputation: Yes, this episode remains Alogidh non-existent in my career. I was hoping that I would bring actual achievements with the Egyptian national team, but there are many circumstances prevented that, including poor preparation and poor planning and confusion. Egypt's strongest team of Africa but the conditions did not allow us to qualify and these things that I was hoping that I add to Register.
Awards and achievements
Egypt National Team
- FIBA Africa Championship 2001-Bronze Medalist.
- FIBA Africa Championship 2003-Bronze Medalist.
- All African Games 2007
- Qualifying to FIFA World Youth Championship in 1997
Sagesse Beirut
- 1998 Arab Club Championship- Gold Medalist.
Al Riyad Beirut
- Won the Lebanese League six times 2011-2016.
References
- 1 2 "Ahmad Ismail, Egypt". Player Profiles. asia-basket.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
External links
- Player profile at www.Asia-Basket.com (subscription required)
- https://arabia.eurosport.com/article/5154358
- http://basketball.realgm.com/player/Ismail-Abdel-Moneim/Summary/28484