Mohamed Yehia el-Horria Mohamed Emam (Arabic: محمد يحيى الحرية محمد إمام; 28 November 1943 – 9 January 2016), known as Hamada Emam (Arabic: حمادة إمام), was the Vice President of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) and a former Egyptian football player.
[2] He was born on November 28, 1943 in the Al-Munira neighborhood of Sayyida Zeinab, adjacent to El-Qasr El-Aini Street in Cairo.
One of Emam's nicknames was "Mohamed V" and this goes back to a story with Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer in 1960, when he was 18 years old.
Zamalek U-20 reached the final of the Egypt Cup to meet Al Ahly, and the match ended in a draw, and the Egyptian Football Association decided to hold a rematch between the two sides.
[3] Zamalek wanted to use the services of Hamada Emam in the match, but they discovered that he was with his father in the Gaza Strip, as his father, Yehia Emam, who was also formerly the Zamalek's goalkeeper, was deputy governor of the Gaza Strip and wanted his son to devote himself to studying.
Immediately, Amer decided to send a warplane to Gaza that brought Hamada Emam to Cairo.
[8][9][10] Emam was unlucky, as Egyptian football activity stopped due to the outbreak of the 1967 war, he was only 24.
[12][13] Emam played for the Egypt national football team, but was not a regular member of the starting lineup due to his job as a military officer in the Egyptian Armed Forces.