Mohamed Aboutrika

By Noor Shija


THERE are many ways to deliver messages to show people your feelings about something you like or you don’t like, sometimes you do that because you do not have power, status, mandate or mass support . But we have the example of Egyptian footballer and that is Mohamed Aboutrika who used his own style to oppose Israel attacks against Gaza Strip.


Mohamed Aboutrika was born in November 7, 1978 and he became the best footballer in Egypt, he used to play fro Egyptian club called Al-Ahly and his funs loved him much because he was excellent in the field and he used to play lake Zinedine Zidane.

His historical background showed that he was born in very simple family in the town of Giza and he started playing football when he was 12 age, first he got tested in the club of Tersana which was the second biggest club after Al-Zamalek in Giza.

Aboutrika won the test and joined the club through his personal effort and when he got tender age of 17 years he had been promoted to the first squad of the team. In the year of 2000 up to the year of 2001 his star started to shine in the Egyptian League, where he became a hero to the league, he scored six goals. visit youtube.

He continued to be star in the Egyptian League and in the year 2004 he joined another big soccer club in Egypt called Al-Ahly. And in the year 2006 he was among players in the Egypt national team whose gave their nation the victory in the African Cup of Nations competition which held in Egypt 2006.

Japanese newspaper nominated Aboutrika to be one of the best players in FIFA CLUB World Championship 2006. he became one of the most hopeful player in Egypt and played a lot of matches national and international.

In 2008 when the Egypt national team playing against Sudan national in the 2008 African Cup of Nations, Aboutrika after scoring a goal he removed his jersey to show a T-shirt reading ‘Sympathize with Gaza’. Egypt won 3-0.

He did that to protest the Israels’s attack against Gaza and he was given a yellow card for his action which is purely against FIFA’s rule. The rule strictly prohibit players and other soccers officials to display political slogans during play.

Due to his action he was about to face sanctions, but CAF made no punishments against him. When approached by Al Jazeera Television he broke his silence and said that his action was a personal message.

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