Mahmoud El-Gohary

Mahmoud Nuseir Youssef El-Gohary (Arabic: محمود نصير يوسف الجوهري; 20 February 1938 – 31 August 2012) was an Egyptian footballer and football coach.^[1]

Mahmoud El-Gohary

El-Gohary in 1959
Personal information
Full name	Mahmoud Nuseir Youssef El-Gohary
Date of birth	(1938-02-20)20 February 1938
Place of birth	Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
Date of death	31 August 2012(2012-08-31) (aged 74)
Place of death	Amman, Jordan
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1955–1961	Al Ahly
International career
1958–1961	Egypt	5	(3)
Managerial career
1965–1977	Al Ahly (assistant)
1977–1981	Al-Ittihad (assistant)
1981–1982	Al-Ittihad
1982–1984	Al Ahly
1984–1985	Al-Sharjah
1985–1986	Al Ahly
1986–1988	Al-Ahli Jeddah
1988–1990	Egypt
1991–1993	Al Ahly
1993–1994	Zamalek
1995–1996	Al-Wahda
1996–1997	Oman
1997–2001	Egypt
2002–2007	Jordan
Medal record Men's football Representing  Egypt (as player) Africa Cup of Nations Winner 1959 Representing  Egypt (as manager) Winner 1998
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

As a player, El-Gohary had a short-lived career. A persistent knee injury forced him into early retirement in 1961, cutting short a promising career. In the 1959 African Cup of Nations, which Egypt won, he ended as the top scorer in the competition. He was also part of Egypt's squad for the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[2] After his retirement from the game, El-Gohary became a coach with Al Ahly, eventually becoming an assistant manager from 1965 to 1977.

In 1977, he became assistant manager to Dettmar Cramer at Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. Cramer left Al-Ittihad at the end of the 1981 season and El-Gohary was promoted to manager. Al-Ittihad won their first ever Saudi Premier League and El-Gohary won the first of many trophies as a manager. At Al Ahly, he won the first African League titles – African League Winners and African League Cup winners. With Zamalek, he won the 1993 African Cup of Champions Clubs and the first African Super Cup in 1994 against Al Ahly in the famous African Super of the 20th Century.

Under his leadership, Egypt’s national football team, he qualified for the World Cup in 1990, after the country's 56-year absence from the tournament. He also won with Egypt the Arab Cup in 1992 and the Africa Cup of Nations in 1998. Under El-Gohary's management, the Jordanian national football team reached the highest FIFA World Rankings in history when they reached 37th rank in August 2004.^[3] Under the leadership of El-Gohary, the Jordanian national team qualified for their first (AFC) Asian Football Confederation in China 2004. Jordan reached the quarterfinals of the tournament but failed to qualify for the semifinals after losing to Japan in a penalty shoot-out, resulting in a score of 1–1. In the West Asian Football Federation Championship Tournaments of 2004 and 2007, El-Gohary helped Jordan win third place.

After he retired as a football coach, he worked as the technical director for the Egyptian Football Association. Later, he became the technical adviser for the Jordan Football Association. He helped to transform the Jordanian Football League into a professional body. He died on 31 August 2012, in Amman, Jordan.^[4]

Honours

Player

Al Ahly

• Egyptian Premier League: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61
• Egypt Cup: 1956, 1958, 1961

Egypt

• African Cup of Nations: 1959

Manager

Al-Ittihad Club

• Saudi Premier League: 1981–82

Al Ahly

• Egyptian Premier League: 1985–86
• Egypt Cup: 1984, 1985, 1992, 1993
• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1982
• African Cup Winners' Cup: 1985

Zamalek

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1993
• CAF Super Cup: 1994

Egypt

• Arab Nations Cup: 1992
• African Cup of Nations: 1998