Mokhtar Mokhtar

Mokhtar Mokhtar
Personal information
Full name Mokhtar Ali Mokhtar
Date of birth (1954-08-17) 17 August 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth Cairo, Egypt
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
El-Entag El-Harby (Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1975 Esco
1975–1984 Al Ahly
International career
1976–1980 Egypt 17 (3)
Managerial career
1998–2000 Al Ahly (Youth Coach)
2000–2000 Al Ahly
2000–2002 Al Ahly (Assistant)
2002–2003 Ghazl El Mahalla
2005–2010 Petrojet
2010–2010 Al-Masry
2010–2011 Al-Wehda
2011–2011 ENPPI
2012–2012 Al-Oruba
2012–2013 Dhofar
2013–2014 Petrojet
2015–2015 Al-Masry
2016–2017 El Ittihad Alexandria
2017–2021 El-Entag El-Harby
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mokhtar Ali Mokhtar (Arabic: مختار علي مختار; born 17 August 1954) is an Egyptian football coach and former player who is the manager of the El-Entag El-Harby.

Playing career

"Mokhtar Ali Mokhtar" started his football career as a U-18 player at ESCO Club in Shubra, then moved after his brilliance to Al-Ahly club, thanks to Engineer Ali Rakha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ASCO Club.

Mokhtar participated in the first official match with Al-Ahly in the second week of the 75/1976 season against Kafr El-Sheikh in his stadium in Kafr El-Sheikh stadium and Al-Ahly won 2 / zero. In the third week, Al-Ahly met his home with Al-Minya team and Al-Ahly won 6 / zero. Mokhtar scored the third goal inaugurating his goal in the Red Castle.

Throughout the 8 seasons Mokhtar spent in Al-Ahly starting from the 75/1976 season and ending in the 82/1983 season and only one match in the 83/1984 season, Mokhtar played 153 games in the general league during which Al-Ahly won 110 games, drew in 34 games and lost only 9 games.

Mokhtar scored with Al-Ahly 26 goals in the Egyptian General League and won the shield 6 times in seasons 75/76, 76/77, 78/79, 79/80, 80/81, 81/1982 and Mukhtar participated in 17 games in the Egypt Cup, Al-Ahly won 13 and drew In one and he lost 3 games, he scored two goals and scored with Al-Ahly the Cup Championship 3 times in the years 78, 81, 1983.

Mokhtar participated in 24 matches in the African Champions League Clubs Championship, Al-Ahly won 13, drew 6, lost 5 games, scored a goal against the Nigerian Ingo Rangers goalkeeper in the 1982 semi-final in Cairo, and scored a goal against Zimbabwe's Dynamo Harare in the 16th round in Cairo in 1983. He scored two goals against the Libyan city in Cairo in 1977 and Al-Ahly won 7/2

Mokhtar achieved the first African Championship in 1982, to be the total of what he fought with the first team of the club since joining 194 games, won 136, drew 41 and lost 17 games, scored 32 goals, 26 in the General League, two goals in the Egypt Cup and 4 goals in the African Championship.

In the opening of Al-Ahly matches in the 83/1984 season in front of the contractors at Cairo Stadium, and 13 minutes before the start of the match, Mokhtar had scored for Al-Ahly a goal in the goal, but Antoine Cameroonian goalkeeper for the contractors and it did not take 10 minutes until Mokhtar was injured in a joint ball with Saeed Al-Shishini who fell With all his body on the knee of Mokhtar, where his leg was atrophied and several operations were performed, but his right leg remained painful after he trained with strength and violence to restore his speed, but he was unable and decided to retire the ball and as a confirmation of his high morals he insisted in his honor match held on Friday, January 24, 1986 that he be around the field He raised his hand in the hands of Saeed Al-Shish The captain of the Arab Contractors Club team declares this in front of everyone that El Shishiny did not intend to injure him and that he does not hold any grudge for him and the audience received this situation with enthusiasm after he was calling on selected colleagues on the field to avenge him and as a result of this wonderful position, In 1985 the International Committee of UNESCO in Paris decided to grant Mokhtar the Fair Play Prize and received the trophy on the September 25th, 1986.

At the international level, Mokhtar played 42 caps for Egypt.

His first official match was in the African Nations Cup in Ethiopia on 3 March 1976 and Egypt won 2/1.

Coaching career

Mokhtar Mokhtar took over the training of junior teams in Al-Ahly after obtaining multiple studies in training and worked as a coach for the first team with Portuguese technical director Manuel Jose.

Mokhtar worked as coach of the Petrojet Club team from 2005 to 2010.

Mokhtar Mokhtar won his first title in his history after achieving the Egyptian Cup title in 2011 for Enppi.

He took over the training of the El Entag El Harby SC on March 20, 2017.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 21 December 2020
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref.
P W D L Win %
Al Ahly SC 31 August 2000 14 October 2000 5 4 1 0 080.0
Ghazl El Mahalla 1 July 2002 30 June 2003 28 8 10 10 028.6
Petrojet 1 July 2005 31 May 2010 159 69 46 44 043.4
Al Masry 1 June 2010 26 November 2010 12 4 4 4 033.3
Al-Wehda 25 December 2010 15 May 2011 15 3 4 8 020.0
ENPPI 12 July 2011 27 December 2011 13 3 5 5 023.1
Al-Orouba 20 February 2012 30 July 2012 17 8 5 4 047.1
Dhofar 5 November 2012 12 April 2013 26 11 11 4 042.3
Petrojet 2 May 2013 7 October 2014 35 11 11 13 031.4
Al Masry 29 April 2015 13 July 2015 12 5 3 4 041.7
Al Ittihad Alexandria 9 March 2016 13 February 2017 36 14 7 15 038.9
El-Entag El-Harby 20 March 2017 ""Present"" 126 38 44 44 030.2
Total 484 178 151 155 036.8

Honours

Manager