Egypt national handball team

Egypt
Information
Nickname	The Pharoahs
Association	Egyptian Handball Federation
Coach	Marwan Ragab
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	6 (First in 1992)
Best result	6th (1996)
World Championship
Appearances	14 (First in 1964)
Best result	4th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances	20 (First in 1979)
Best result	Winners (1991, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016)
Last updated on Unknown.

The Egyptian national handball team is the national handball team of Egypt and is controlled by the Egyptian Handball Federation.

History

Egyptian Handball Federation old logo

Egyptian Handball Federation current logo

The Team's performance in the '90s boosted the sport's popularity in the country and attracted media and official attention, especially after scoring a huge upset against former World champions Romania in the 1995 World Men's Handball Championship held in Iceland.

Egypt also became the first non-European team to reach the World Championship semi-finals in the 2001 Men's tournament that was held in France. The Egyptians dubbed that team as the "Dream Team".

Competitive record

     Champions       Runners-up       Third Place       Fourth Place  

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Did not enter
1976 Montreal	Did not participate
1980 Moscow	Did not qualify
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona	Match for 11th place	11th of 12	6	1	0	5	119	137	−18
1996 Atlanta	Match for 5th place	6th of 12	6	3	0	3	139	132	+7
2000 Sydney	Match for 7th place	7th of 12	8	4	0	4	197	194	+3
2004 Athens	Match for 11th place	12th of 12	6	0	0	6	134	163	−29
2008 Beijing	Group stage	10th of 12	5	0	2	3	127	132	−5
2012 London	Did not qualify
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Group stage	9th of 12	5	1	1	3	129	143	−14
Total	6/13	0 Titles	36	9	3	24	845	901	−56

World Championship

Year	Position	Pld	W	D	L
Germany 1938	Did not enter
Sweden 1954	Did not enter
Germany 1958	Did not enter
Germany 1961	Did not enter
Czechoslovakia 1964	14th	3	0	0	3
Sweden 1967	Did not enter
France 1970	Did not enter
East Germany 1974	Did not enter
Denmark 1978	Did not enter
Germany 1982	Did not enter
East Germany 1986	Did not enter
Czechoslovakia 1990	Did not enter
Sweden 1993	12th	7	1	0	6
Iceland 1995	6th	9	5	0	4
Japan 1997	6th	9	6	1	2
Egypt 1999	7th	9	6	0	3
France 2001	4th	9	5	1	3
Portugal 2003	15th	7	2	1	4
Tunisia 2005	14th	5	3	0	2
Germany 2007	17th	6	2	0	4
Croatia 2009	14th	9	4	0	5
Sweden 2011	14th	7	2	0	5
Spain 2013	16th	6	1	1	4
Qatar 2015	14th	6	2	1	3
France 2017	Qualified
Total	14/25	92	39	5	48

African Championship

Year Position Tunisia 1974 Did not enter Algeria 1976 Did not enter Republic of the Congo 1979 Runners Up Tunisia 1981 Fourth Place Egypt 1983 Fourth Place Tunisia 1985 Runners Up Morocco 1987 Runners Up Algeria 1989 Runners Up Egypt 1991 Champions Côte d'Ivoire 1992 Champions Tunisia 1994 Third Place

Year Position Benin 1996 Third Place South Africa 1998 Third Place Algeria 2000 Champions Morocco 2002 Third Place Egypt 2004 Champions Tunisia 2006 Runners Up Angola 2008 Champions Egypt 2010 Runners Up Morocco 2012 Third Place Algeria 2014 Third Place Egypt 2016 Champions Total 20/22

All-Africa Games

• 1965 -
• 1973 -
• 1987 -
• 1991 -
• 1995 -
• 1999 -
• 2003 -
• 2007 -
• 2011 -
• 2015 -

Mediterranean Games

• 1979 - 6th
• 1991 -
• 1993 - 4th
• 1997 - 6th
• 2005 - 5th
• 2013 -

Pan Arab Games

• 1992 -
• 1997 -
• 1999 -
• 2004 -
• 2007 -
• 2011 -

Islamic Solidarity Games

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	Final Position
Saudi Arabia 2005	Third Place	7	5	-	2	3rd
Indonesia 2013	No Handball tournament Held
Total	1/1	7	5	-	2	-

Youth Olympics

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	Final Position
Singapore 2010	Champions	4	3	1	-	1st
China 2014	Runners-Up	4	3	-	1	2nd
Total	2/2	8	6	1	1	-

Junior World Championship

Year	Round	Final Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Sweden 1977	Did Not Qualify
Denmark / Sweden 1979
Portugal 1981
Finland 1983	Preliminary Round	13th	6	2	-	4	105	143	-38
Italy 1985	Preliminary Round	15th	6	2	-	4	122	140	-18
Yugoslavia 1987	Did not Qualify
Spain 1989	Preliminary Round	15th	6	1	-	5	117	149	-32
Greece 1991	Preliminary Round	13th	6	3	-	3	153	141	+12
Egypt 1993	Champions	Winners	7	6	-	1	179	139	+40
Argentina 1995	Quarter-Final	6th	8	4	-	4	191	196	-5
Turkey 1997	Quarter-Final	6th	9	4	-	5	237	247	-10
Qatar 1999	Semi-Final	3rd	8	5	1	2	257	194	+63
Switzerland 2001	Main Round	8th	8	4	-	4	192	218	-26
Brazil 2003	Main Round	10th	8	1	3	4	196	214	-18
Hungary 2005	Main Round	7th	8	6	-	2	235	227	+8
Macedonia 2007	Main Round	6th	8	5	-	3	244	213	+31
Egypt 2009	Semi-Final	4th	10	7	-	3	255	241	+14
Greece 2011	Semi-Final	4th	9	5	-	4	251	222	+29
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013	Quarter-Final	8th	9	4	1	4	250	243	+6
Brazil 2015	Semi-Final	4th	9	5	1	3	282	258	+24
Total	16/20	1 Title	125	64	6	55	3266	3186	*80

Youth World Championships

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	Final Position
Qatar 2005	Preliminary Round	5	2	-	3	6th
Bahrain 2007	Main Round	7	4	-	3	5th
Tunisia 2009	Preliminary Round	6	2	-	4	12th
Argentina 2011	Quarter-finals	7	5	-	2	5th
Hungary 2013	Round of 16	9	4	-	5	11th
Russia 2015	Round of 16	6	2	-	4	15th
Total	6/6	40	19	-	21	-

Team

Current squad

The following is the Egyptian roster in the men's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Head coach: Marwan Ragab

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 RB Mamdouh Abouebaid 1 January 1988 (aged 28) 1.87 m 131 397 Al Ahly 8 P Mahmoud Ramadan 7 March 1984 (aged 32) 1.85 m 305 912 Al Ahly 9 CB Eslam Isaa 2 July 1988 (aged 28) 1.86 m 204 617 Club Africain 15 RW Mohamed Amer 12 December 1987 (aged 28) 1.87 m 150 498 Al Ahly 19 CB Mohamed El-Bassiouny 10 May 1990 (aged 26) 1.86 m 110 360 Alexandria SC 20 CB Mohamed Hasehm 23 January 1988 (aged 28) 1.80 m 210 712 Aviation SC 24 P Ibrahim El-Masry 11 March 1989 (aged 27) 1.95 m 175 423 Al Ahly 39 LB Yehia El-Deraa 17 June 1995 (aged 21) 1.86 m 88 186 Hellopolice 66 RB Ahmed El-Ahmar 27 January 1984 (aged 32) 1.84 m 397 1351 Zamalek 72 GK Mahmoud Khalil 1 June 1991 (aged 25) 1.92 m 122 0 El Jaish 88 GK Karim Handawy 1 May 1988 (aged 28) 1.86 m 256 0 Al Ahly 89 P Mohamed Shebib 4 January 1989 (aged 27) 1.89 m 210 953 Zamalek 90 LB Aly Mohamed 14 December 1990 (aged 25) 1.95 m 231 703 Al Jazira 91 RW Mohamed Sanad 16 January 1991 (aged 25) 1.84 m 120 334 Komlói Bányász

Famous players

• Ahmed Mostafa ElAhmar The best player to come in Egypt's history. Left Handed and very talented player. He is playing now for Zamalek. He used to play for Flensburg in Germany.
• Mohamed El Alfy One of the best handball players in Egypt's history and a very talented coach, he played for Heliopolis, Ahly and National team captain.
• Alaa Elsayed (Arabic: علاء السيد‎‎) skipper of the first Egyptian National Handball to Win the African Championship in Cairo 1991, played for Altayaran Club, later became administrative manager of the National Team
• Hamada El Rooby(Arabic: حمادة الروبي‎‎) One of the best goalkeepers in Egyptian history and was in the dream of 2001 who took 4th place in the World Cup.
• Ahmed Belal (Arabic: أحمد بلال‎‎) Mastermind of the Egyptian National Team for a decade, played for Olympic Club of Alexandria, played in Germany, and his sons Aly, Karim and Omar Belal play for Smouha Club
• Ashraf Awaad (Arabic: أشرف عواض‎‎) skipper of the Egyptian youth team who won the World Youth Cup in Cairo 1993, to be the first non-European to win a world title at any level in handball, member of the Awaad clan who provided Egyptian Handball by several members namely Hazem and Belal, Hussein, Hassan, Ibrahim and the young boy Abdul Rahman, played for Al Ahly
• Bassem Elsobky (Arabic: باسم السبكي‎‎) Goalkeeper of Zamalek club, one of the best goalkeepers ever
• Ayman Salah(Arabic: أيمن صلاح‎‎) Goalkeeper of Zamalek club, one of the best goalkeepers ever
• Gohar Nabil (Arabic: جوهر نبيل‎‎) pivot of Ahly club one of the best pivots in world
• Magdy Abo El Magd (Arabic: مجدي ابو المجد‎‎)pivot and captain of Zamalek team. officially one of the best players in Zamalek club history and a talented working hard coach with clubs and the national team
• Hassan Yousry (Arabic: حسن يسري‎‎) The mastermind of the Egyptian national team from 2004-2011 from the best CB in Egyptian history currently playing in AL Jaish in Qatar.
• Mamdouh Hashem Captain of the National team from 1980 to 1985 First Egyptian to play professional handball in Europe played for 2 years in TUSEM Essen club in Germany then he moved to Saudi Arabia as a professional player, then as a coach. Later on he moved to Egypt where he took responsibility as the general manager of Al Zamalek club where he achieved with them many local and African championships.
• Khaled Elawady (Arabic: خالد العوضى‎‎) goalkeeper of Ahly club, one of the best goalkeepers in Egypt
• Hussein Zaky First Player to play abroad for Cuidad Real and other big teams In Europe and was in the dream team of 2001 and was the goal top scorer the world Cup in France 2001.
• Hussein Labib Right wing at Zamalek club
• Hassan Sakr Right back at Zamalek club
• Mostafa El-Ahmar Left Back at Zamalek club
• Hisham Nasr Left back at Zamalek club

Notable former coaches

• Zoran Živković
• Irfan Smajlagić

References

1. "منتخب «اليد» يطير إلى البرازيل استعدادا للأولمبياد" [Handball team will fly to Brazil for the Olympics] (in Arabic). Veto Gate. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile