Essam El Hadary

Essam El Hadary
El Hadary with Egypt at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Essam Kamal Tawfiq El Hadary[1]
Date of birth (1973-01-15) 15 January 1973 (age 51)[1]
Place of birth Kafr El Battikh, Damietta, Egypt
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1991–1993 Damietta
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1996 Damietta 58 (0)
1996–2008 Al Ahly 412 (1)
2008–2009 Sion 32 (0)
2009–2010 Ismaily 20 (0)
2010–2011 Zamalek 4 (0)
2011–2013 Al Merreikh 92 (0)
2012Al-Ittihad Alexandria (loan) 1 (0)
2013–2014 Wadi Degla 14 (0)
2014–2015 Ismaily 38 (0)
2015–2017 Wadi Degla 57 (0)
2017–2018 Al-Taawoun 25 (1)
2018–2019 Ismaily 15 (0)
2019–2020 Nogoom 3 (0)
Total 771 (2)
International career
1996–2018 Egypt 159[a] (0)
Managerial career
2021–2022 Egypt (goalkeeper coach)
2022–2023 Egypt U23 (goalkeeper coach)
2023–2024 Syria (goalkeeper coach)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Egypt
Africa Cup of Nations
Winner 1998 Burkina Faso
Winner 2006 Egypt
Winner 2008 Ghana
Winner 2010 Angola
Runner-up 2017 Gabon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Essam Kamal Tawfiq El Hadary (Arabic: عصام كمال توفيق الحضري; born 15 January 1973) is an Egyptian goalkeeping coach and former professional footballer.

Nicknamed the "High Dam",[2][3] El Hadary spent the largest portion of his club career with Al Ahly, with whom he won seven Egyptian Premier Leagues, four Egypt Cups, four Egyptian Super Cups, three CAF Champions Leagues, three CAF Super Cups, one Arab Club Champions Cup, and two Arab Super Cups.

Third on the list of all-time appearances for Egypt,[4] El Hadary made 159 international appearances for his nation between 1996 and 2018. He won the Africa Cup of Nations four times, and was named the tournament's best goalkeeper on three occasions. In the 2018 World Cup, at the age of 45 years and 161 days, he became the oldest player in history to play in a World Cup match.[5]

After his retirement, he was very close to being the goalkeeping coach of Étoile Sahel of Tunisia, to be part of the technical staff under the leadership of Jorvan Vieira after agreeing to sign the contract, but his mother's illness forced him to step back in the end.[6]

  1. ^ a b c "FIFA World Cup Russia 2018™: List of Players: Egypt" (PDF). FIFA. 4 June 2018. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2018.
  2. ^ Sief, Ahmed (8 October 2017). "Hadry will be oldest goalkeeper in the World Cup". Egypt Today. Retrieved 22 June 2018. Essam el-Hadary, goalkeeper of the national team, is preparing for a new record to add to his records in football, that "the high dam" will be the [oldest] goalkeeper in the history of the World Cup.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Adel, Hazem (19 April 2018). "Egypt – Record International Players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Milla, Zoff, El Hadary & the oldest players in World Cup history". Goal.com. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Etoile du Sahel: Essam El Hadary reveals why he refused the post of goalkeeper coach". africatopsports.com. 25 December 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.


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