As we told him we were from Egypt, he said, “Oh, the land of Mido, our Ajax star!”. He played for 10 clubs in seven different countries but with less impact than he promised.
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The displays of the young Egyptian caught the eye of Roma chairman Franco Sensi. "The scissors whizzed past my head, straight into the concrete wall and made a crack.". F, or some, he’s an arrogant agitator, who had the potential to do great things, played alongside 13 Golden Boot winners, and could have competed with the best strikers the football world has ever seen, but failed due to a volatile personality and inconsistency on the pitch.
Manchester United ace Zlatan Ibrahimovic sent a message to his former teammate Ahmed Hossam ‘Mido’. At just 17 Mido was already playing for the Pharaohs and in 23 international appearances he boasted 10 goals. Fate was not kind to Mido and, despite his best intentions to find the professionalism that had previously eluded him in his career, his efforts were in vain. He famously walked up to his coach, the legendary Ronald Koeman, after a training session and demanded that he never start on the flanks again. To name just a couple of stories. “In Egypt, he is treated like a god,” said Koeman, after Ajax played a friendly in Cairo.“Everyone is impressed with him…everyone who has seen him play thinks he is a great talent,” Ajax technical director, Leo Beenhakker added. The striker was forced out of the club and he flew back to Egypt until his agent could find him a new home.
Speaking on new Swedish documentary, Becoming Zlatan, retired striker Mido, 33, said: “I was very upset I didn’t start that game.
It is not easy at all,” Mido continued. It was a fatal mistake that Koeman couldn’t ignore. “When I got to the time where I had to fight a lot for my starting spot, I handled things the wrong way, I was in a war with Koeman, I didn’t show up for training. However, the two players quickly made up and have been friends ever since then. For failure to control his emotion, Mido watched the final against Ivory Coast in the stands, and served a six-month ban from the national team.This was too uncouth of a player who had made Egyptians attach as much importance to football as to education. 2001-02Johan Cruyff Shield.
“No coach could have excluded me at that time, I had already scored nine goals for Tottenham, but the truth is the coaching staff wholeheartedly wanted me out of the squad. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), The rise and fall of Mido, Egypt’s volatile son, The tricks, trials and tribulations of Michel Bastos, Remembering when Bayern Munich played the Netherlands three days after losing the Champions League final, Remembering Vitali Daraselia, Dinamo Tbilisi’s Cup Winners’ Cup legend who died at 25, Why the Turkish Süper Lig is so much more than a retirement home for ageing stars. He was sulking after being dumped on the bench for the game. undefined. Ajax signed an 18-year-old Ahmed Hossam ‘Mido’ only a year after he was named the best African player in the Jupiler League while playing for Gent. In a revealing interview for the documentary, Capello, 70, said: “I told Zlatan: ‘You have the potential to become No 1 in the world.’.
I always say that a player’s personality is more important than his skills; so what about a player who has both” concluded Mido. And, according to Ibrahimovic, the scissors were kept by the team manager as a souvenir. That is why, in the formative process, he had to learn how, and once Koeman substituted Mido after just 32 minutes of a league game.
He scored two goals on his Tottenham debut against Portsmouth on 5 February 2005.
I said to Zlatan: ‘You know that I almost killed you?’ And he said: ‘Yeah, I know.’.
For some, he’s an arrogant agitator, who had the potential to do great things, played alongside 13 Golden Boot winners, and could have competed with the best strikers the football world has ever seen, but failed due to a volatile personality and inconsistency on the pitch. It turned out that the Ajax fan was Carlos Hasselbaink, brother of Jimmy Floyd. . “He realised he had joined an exceptional group of players, who lead decent, private lives and made sacrifices.
That is when he started to improve and evolve into a leader.”.
Basically, Mido was not happy about being a substitute during the game. Mido was shipped out on loan to Celta Vigo and then sold in the summer to Marseille. At Lverpoool, he is a winner, a conqueror, a record breaker. Ten minutes later, I went into the shower and he was sitting at the Jacuzzi. Meanwhile, Ibrahimovic, a son of Balkan immigrants, was bred in the ghettos of Malmo, Sweden, where a gigantic statute of him now welcomes you to the place.