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Egyptian footballer (born 1971)

Haytham Farouk
Personal information
Full name Haytham Farouk Aboelw
Date of birth (1971-01-04) 4 January 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Alexandria, Egypt
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1996 Olympic Club 220 (22)
1996–1997 Feyenoord 4 (0)
1997–1998 Helsingborgs IF 8 (0)
1998–1999 Oostende 10 (0)
1999–2002 Zamalek SC 48 (3)
2002–2003 Ismaily 8 (0)
2003–2005 El-Tersana 28 (10)
2005–2006 El-Masry 14 (0)
International career
1987 Egypt U17 8 (2)
1989 Egypt U 19 6
1990-1992 Olympic U23 25 (4)
1993–1999 Egypt 13 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Haytham Farouk Aboelw (Arabic: هيثم فاروق; born 4 January 1971) is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Farouk was born in Alexandria. He spent most of his career in Egypt and played for El-Olympi and Zamalek SC. He played for the Zamalek side that won the 2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Egyptian league 2000-2001 and Egyptian Super Cup 2001. Individual achievements: Farouk played for Olympic club when he was 17 years old which was considered the youngest player to ever play for the first team. He was also the first Egyptian player to ever play in the Dutch league, that occurred in 1996 with Feyenoord, Rotterdam. Also the first Egyptian player who played in the Swedish league in Helsingborgs 1997, and Belgian league aside Nader Elsayed in 1998. Aside long Farouk incredible achievements he was also the fifth Egyptian player in history that played in UEFA cup. Haytham Farouk currently is one of the most famous sport analysts working in Bein Sports. Bein sports is known world wide for being the most important and famous sport channel. He also had a spell in Europe, playing for Dutch Eredivisie side Feyenoord, Swedish Allsvenskan side Helsingborgs IF and Belgian First Division side K.V. Oostende.

Farouk made several appearances for the Egypt national football team, including 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. He also played for Egypt at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

References

  1. Haytham Farouk at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. Anwar, Abeer (6 December 2000). "The big turnaround". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011.
  3. "Haytam Farouk" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  4. Courtney, Barrie (2 February 2005). "International Matches 1997". RSSSF.
  5. "Haysam Abouelw Biography and Statistics". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

External links

Egypt squad – 1992 Summer Olympics
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