[2][3] Despite his short career as a professional player, due to his early retirement, Baheeg won with his team six titles of the Egypt Cup (1951–52, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60).

[6] He played for his country in the 1959 African Cup of Nations, and participated in the two matches against the Ethiopia and Sudan.

Baheeg also scored a famous goal in France from forty yards in the football finals of the 1955 Mediterranean Games in Barcelona, in which Egypt won the gold medal.

[7] Baheeg coached the National Bank of Egypt SC in the 1970s, and coached Zamalek in the 1987-88 season and achieved the 1987–88 Egyptian League, the 1988 Egypt Cup, and the 1987 Afro-Asian Club Championship, in addition to winning the Friendship Cup.

[8] Baheeg was known for his numerous relationships with women during his football career, he was a rich topic for tabloids in the 1950s.

[9] He presented his personal experience in the film Talk of the City (1964) alongside Shwikar.

[9][11] While filming Talk of the City in 1964, Baheeg met actress Nahed Gabr, and quickly they fell in love with each other and got married in Cairo and had a son and a daughter, but they separated and divorced later, however, they remarried again in the 1980s and remained married until his death.