Abdulrahman Fawzi

Abdelrahman Fawzy (Arabic: عَبْد الرَّحْمٰن فَوْزِيّ) (August 11, 1909 – October 16, 1988) was an Egyptian professional football player and manager, who played as a centre forward.

The Egyptian goalkeeper that day, Mustafa Mansour, later said:[2] "When the game was 2–2, my colleague Fawzy took the ball from the centre and dribbled past all the Hungarian players to score a third goal.

Mustafa Mansour, Egypt's goalkeeper at that match, stated that Fawzy scored the third goal for Egypt, when the result was a 2–2 tie between the two teams, but the referee canceled it for an offside offence despite him playing the ball from the centre of the field.

Fawzy led the Egypt national team to win the 1953 Pan Arab Games football tournament with a 4–0 victory over Syria in the final.

Unlike his performance as a player, they failed to qualify to the 1954 FIFA World Cup after losing their two matches against Italy in the qualification rounds, after that Fawzy was no longer the manager of the Egypt national football team, after one year in that position.

He led Ghazl El Mahalla, in that season, to their first ever promotion to the Egyptian Premier League.

Former chairman of Telemisr Company, one of the largest companies in the Middle East, for producing electric and electronic equipments from 96 to 1999, and he was a Captain in the Egyptian air force during October war in 1973, former board member of Zamalek SC during the period of club president Hassan Abo Elfottoh from 1988 to 1990, former board member of Zamalek SC during the first period of club president Galal Ibrahim 1992 to 1996, and former board member of Zamalek SC during the second period of club president Galal Ibrahim, from 2010 to 2011.

Also, he is the father of Muhammad Fawzy, the former agent of the Accountability State Authority and the Table Tennis Federation chose Mohamed Abdel Rahman Fawzy, a former member of the board of directors of Zamalek SC during the period of club president Kamal Darwish, to head the Giza region till now.

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Fawzi (first sitting from left) with Zamalek in 1935
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Egypt National Football Team in the 1934 FIFA World Cup , Fawzi (Upper row, second from right)
Fawzi in 1952