Abdel-Karim Sakr

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Abd El-Karim Sakr
Personal information
Full name Abd El-Karim Ezzat Sakr
Date of birth (1921-04-14)14 April 1921
Place of birth Cairo, Egypt
Date of death March 5, 1994(1994-03-05) (aged 75)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1935–1939 Ahly
1939–1953 Al-Mokhtalat / Farouk
1953 Al Ahly
National team
Egypt
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Abd El-Karim Sakr (Arabic: عبد الكريم صقر) (born 8 November 1918 7ndash; 5 March 1994)[2] was an Egyptian football forward who played for Egypt & Farouk (Zamalek SC now).[3]

Career[]

Abd El Karim scored hattrick in his first match against Zamalek to be the second player to score hattrick in the history of the Cairo Derby, the match ended 5-0 for Al Ahly and El Tetsh scored the two other goals

In 1939 Abd El Karim joined Zamalek from Al Ahly for the then a record amount of 50 Egyptian pound

In 1945 He was offered a £40,000 contract to play for Huddersfield Town but he refused.[4]

International career[]

He represented Egypt in the 1936 Summer Olympics when he was only 15 years old, scoring Egypt's only goal in the tournament. He also represented his country in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

References[]

  1. ^ https://zamalek.sc/new/print.php?id=215 Archived March 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Olympedia - Abdel-Karim Sakr". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2014-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Abdel-Karim Sakr". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

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