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Abdel-Karim Sakr

Abdel-Karim Sakr

Egyptian footballer

Abd El-Karim Sakr (Arabic: عبد الكريم صقر) (born 8 November 1918 – 5 March 1994)[2] was an Egyptian football forward who played for Egypt and Zamalek.[3]

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He started his career in Al Ahly, but played most of his career in Zamalek. He's the Cairo derby all-time goal scorer with 19 goals for both sides, he scored 9 goals for Zamalek in the famous derby to be one of Zamalek's highest scorers in the derby. Sakr is the only Zamalek's player to score in both Cairo derbies with the largest victory with a 6-0 win in 1941-42 Cairo League and 1944 Egypt Cup final.

Career

Club career

Sakr joined Al Ahly, he scored hattrick in his first match against Zamalek to be the second player to score hattrick in the history of the Cairo Derby in 1937, the match ended 5-0 for Al Ahly and El Tetsh scored the other two goals.

Sakr (sitting row, second from left) with Zamalek in 1941

In 1939, Abdel-Karim Sakr joined Zamalek from Al Ahly for the then a record amount of 50 Egyptian pound. He scored twice in two Cairo derbies, when Zamalek won Al Ahly with a score of 6-0 in the two games, in the 1941–42 Cairo League and 1944 Egypt Cup final. Sakr is the all-time goal scorer of the Cairo derby with a record of 19 goals (9 for Zamalek and 10 for Al Ahly), which hasn’t been broken to date.[4] In 1945, He was offered a £40,000 contract to play for Huddersfield Town but he refused and returned to Egypt with his fellow player Mohamed El-Guindi. Sakr played for Zamalek for 14 consecutive seasons, he achieved an impressive record with the team, and scored over 100 goals for Zamalek in all competitions.[5][6]

International career

He represented Egypt in the 1936 Summer Olympics when he was 17 years old, scoring Egypt's only goal in the tournament. He also represented his country in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Sakr played almost 26 international caps with his country and scored 14 international goals.

Honours

Zamalek

References

  1. [1]
    "Zamalek.sc". zamalek.sc. Archived from the original on March 20, 2016.
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    "Olympedia - Abdel-Karim Sakr". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
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    "عبدالكريم صقر - نجوم لا تنسى - Zamalek.Sc". Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
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    "ذكرى رحيل عبد الكريم صقر هداف مباريات القمة بين الأهلى والزمالك اليوم". اليوم السابع (in Arabic). 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
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    "Abdel-Karim Sakr". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  6. [6]
    صافي المعايرجي (13 June 2021). "عبدالكريم صقر.. حين بكى ساحر الكرة المصرية من «إهانة الزمالك»".


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