Egypt's most memorable moments in the Premier League

CAIRO – 24 June 2017: :Mohamed Salah, 25 years old, returned to Premier League after signing a five year contract with Liverpool. Salah had a short spell with Chelsea in 2015 and he has now returned to England to prove himself in the best league in the world.

Salah isn’t the only Egyptian player in the Premier League , Mohamed El Neny and Ramdan Sobhi will join Salah as the Egyptian football ambassadors in the Premier League next season.

Many Egyptian players have played in the Premier League, we will talk about the most memorable Egyptian stories in the history of the Premier League.

3 – Amr Zaki

Egyptian fans put huge expectations on Amr Zaki in his one year loan to Premier League club Wigan Athletic in 2009. Zaki did not let them down during the first half of the season when he scored 10 goals and became one of the league's top scorers.
But Zaki's unprofessional behavior made his coach at Wigan refuse to extend his loan. He later had another spell with Hull City in 2010 without any impact, to return to Egypt again with temporary success and permanent failure.

2 – Mido

One day he was the most famous Egyptian player in Europe after a great career with big European clubs like Ajax, Marseille and Roma before signing for Tottenham Hotspurs.

He played in 4 different teams in England; Tottenham hotspurs, Middlebrough, Wigan Athletic; and West Ham but his best time in England was in his first spell in the Premier League when he earned a starting position in Tottenham Hotspurs line-up scoring 13 goals.



1 – Ahmed El Mohammady

He has the most successful career among Egyptian players in Premier League history, he went to the Premier league from Egyptian club Enppi, to play for Sunderland.

He played for the "Black cats" ( Sunderland nickname) for 3 years and when he left he chose to play in the Championshipwith Hull City rather than return to play in one of big clubs in Egypt.

He was promoted to the Premier League with Hull City twice where they qualified for Europa League and he also played in the FA Cup Final in 2014 with his team. El Mohamady captained Hull City in many matches.