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First Steps
Abo Treika was born on 7th of November 1978 in the city of Giza. Like most football players, he lived a simple life playing football in the streets and honing his skills. When he turned 21, his friend, Magdi Abed, suggested he take the fitness test at Tersana Club, the second biggest club in Giza after Al Ahly. Indeed, Abo Treika passed all the tests and joined the club, "I joined the club through personal effort and without favouritism" is what Abo Treika has to say about that experience.

With Tersana, Aboutreika demonstrated a proficiency which led to his promotion to the First Squad at the tender age of 17. He helped his team, who was playing in the second division, to reach the Egyptian League, being their top scorer in two successive seasons.

His first appearance close to the spotlight was in 2000-2001 Egyptian League, Aboutreika scored 6 goals and made many assistants to his teammates, forming a link with the Syrian striker Mohannad Al-Boshi leading him to score 11 goals, most of them was with the help of Aboutreika's accurate passes. As a result, Aboutreika was offered a place in the Egyptian national Olympic team, and the Egyptian national military team.

In 2001-2002, Aboutreika continued his playmaking skills and scored 7 important goals helping his team to stay in the Egyptian League. In 2002-2003, Aboutreika started to show his ability to score as well as making goals, he scored 11 goals for his team, and this is a very good rate for a midfielder player playing in a relatively weak team in the Egyptian League. The Egyptian newspapers started then to spot the light on this player's promising talent.

[edit] Aboutrika's career
2004

In the first part of Egyptian league 2003-2004, Aboutreika scored 3 goals for Tersana, but demonstrated a high proficiency, with his skills and killing passes. He was offered a position in Egypt's and one of Africa's top performing football teams, El Ahly. He scored 11 goals in his first and only 13 appearances with El Ahly in 2003-2004 league, coming in the second place between top scorers in the Egyptian League with 14 goals.

Since 2004 when he joined El-Ahly club, Aboutreika scored 7 goals in Egypt Derby against El Zamalek, 2 less than the record 9 goals by El Ahly and El Zamalek giant, and arguably Egypt's best ever striker Hossam Hassan. He set a new record as no one has managed to score more than 7 goals except "Trika" and Touto. While Hossam Hassan scored only 5 goals with El Ahly and 4 with El Zamalek.

Aboutreika's efforts with Ahly since day one meant that he was given an Egyptian National Team position, and he debuted against Trinidad and Tobago in a friendly match before the World Cup 2006 qualifiers in March 31 2004 in Arab Contractors Stadium. His National debut game ended 2-1 for the Egyptians. He started as an attacker, but was found to excel when he played his normal position behind the attackers in the midfield position.Aboutreika scored his first national goal in this game. He scored 5 goals in his first 6 appearances with Egypt.

2005

In 2005, El-Ahly regained the Egyptian League Championship after four years out of top position, Aboutreika came in the third place between topscorers in the Egyptian League with 9 goals, and helped his team mate Emad Moteab to be the top scorer of competition. Also in 2005, Aboutreika played a great role in Al-Ahly victory of the CAF Champions League 2005, he scored an amazing goal in the final with an outrageous effort from 30 yards out against Etoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia in a game ended 3-0 for El-Ahly.

El-Ahly qualified for FIFA Club World Championship 2005 but finished last, Aboutreika told FIFA.com the reason saying: "Our problem was that we lost our form, for some reason we could not play like we had before arriving in Japan".

Before Japan, with Aboutreika on-board, El-Ahly was about to make a new world record for the longest winning-streak for a football club. Some have commented that the combination with Emad Motab and Mohamed Barakat formed the most formidable triangle in African Soccer, and they were given the moniker of "The Bermuda Triangle". The Angolan striker Flavio Amado replaces Barakat sometimes, playing a great role in forming this dangerous triangle.

Aboutreika won the title Best Player in Egypt four successive times 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, which is a personal Egyptian record, of the award given by the Egyptian Football Association.

Superb Player in 2006

Serving a powerful cocktail of skill and strength in every game he played in the year 2006, Aboutreika was certainly the key player for his team El Ahly, and his national team Egypt.

He proved his international team trump card en route to victory in the African Cup of Nations Egypt 2006, in February 2006, where he scored two important goals against Libya and Ivory Coast. He was the winning goal assistant, in the Semi-final match against Senegal when Amr Zaki scored in the 80th minute. He was very dominant in that game, but his accurate shot hit the bar. In the final match, Aboutreika scored the decisive penalty shootout which gave Egypt the title.

Aboutreika led El Ahly to the African Champions title CAF Champions League 2006 for the second successive time in Nov 2006. He was the top scorer of the competition with 8 goals, and scored the final match winning goal against CS Sfaxien in the 92nd minute.

He participated also with El Ahly in winning the African Super Cup against FAR Rabat of Morocco, days after the African Cup of Nations in February.

Locally, he got the Egyptian League in June when he was the top scorer by 18 goals, and won Egyptian Soccer Cup, then the Egyptian Super Cup in July when he scored the winning goal against ENPPI, in the 92nd minute which seems to be his minute of luckiness, although he was a bit injured since the first half.

Japanese newspapers nominated Aboutreika to be one of the best players in FIFA Club World Championship 2006 in Japan, the last tournament in Aboutreika's great year. El-Ahly was one of the African representatives, and the first team ever to be qualified two successive times to this championship, and the first African team to win a medal in that competition.

In the opening match of the tournament against Auckland City FC of New Zealand on Dec 10th 2006, Aboutreika helped El-Ahly to secure and book a semi-final date with Internacional of Brazil. El-Ahly won 2-0 easily, and Aboutreika capped a fine display by stroking a superbly flighted free-kick over the wall scoring the second goal for his team. As well as netting with his delightful right-foot effort, Aboutreika was at the heart of most his side's best moves, dictating the rhythm with his skill and vision.

In the semi-finals, El-Ahly faced Brazilian Internacional on Dec 13th 2006, and Aboutreika played a good game, but his accurate shot hit the Brazilian right-hand post to deprive his team from a deserved draw. El-Ahly lost the match 2-1, but proved a good efficiency, yet the ball refused to be netted in many available chances to score in Brazilian goalkeeper.'Match Report'

El-Ahly faced Club América of Mexico, for the third place, and Aboutreika gave El-Ahly the lead with an amazing free-kick over the wall, ending the first half 1-0 for El-Ahly. In the second half, America made the draw, but as usual, Aboutreika appears in the 79th minute with a skilled ball, he showed yet again why he is on the shortlist for the African player of the year. After surging out of midfield and finding Flavio Amado with a pinpoint pass, the mercurial playmaker latched on to the Angolan's return ball and calmly slotted the ball past Mexican goalkeeper for his third goal of the tournament. El-Ahly won the third place, after Aboutrika lifted his team to an unprecedented result for the Egyptian club or any African outfit. Personally, he became the top scorer of tournament by 3 goals in 3 matches.

Aboutreika won all the competitions he participated in this year, and got the bronze medal for El-Ahly in FIFA Club World Championship 2006. He was the top scorer in three competitions, which are FIFA Club World Championship 2006 with 3 goals, Egyptian League with 18 goals and CAF Champions League 2006 with 8 goals. Aboutreika scored in other competitions, and made brilliant assistants to strikers.

2007

In 2007, El-Ahly won the Egyptian League (2006-2007) for the third successive season. Aboutreika scored 7 goals for his team, although he was injured. El-Ahly won the Egyptian Soccer Cup 2007 for the second successive time. Aboutrika was the top goalscorer of the competition with 4 goals. He scored a double kick memorable goal against El-Geish in the 8-round game which ended 3-1 for El-Ahly. In the final, El-Ahly faced his rival El-Zamalek. Aboutreika made an one neck-saving equalizer in the last 2 minutes on July 2nd 2007 in the Egyptian Soccer Cup resulting in extra-time after tying 2-2. After El-Zamalek grabbed their third in the first half of extra-time, Aboutreika dazzeled the stands with two great balls, one an assisted cross over the whites' defense to Osama Hosny to score the equalizer in second half of extra-time in the first seconds of the game and within a minute, he surged between the Zamalek's midfield and passed two Zamalek players before providing an accurate throguh pass to Ahmad Sedik on the wing who went through on goal and assisted again for Osama Hosny for the late winner and holding high the Egyptian Cup. After that, El-Ahly won the Egyptian Super Cup 2007 for the third successive time, through shootouts, after tying 1-1 with Ismaily.

In CAF Champions League 2007, Aboutreika scored 4 goals for El-Ahly until now, to raise his African goals to the number 15. El-Ahly is going to face Etoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia in the final match first leg in Tunisia, on 27th October 2007. El-Ahly have the chance to be the first team in the World to reach FIFA Club World Championship three successive times, and the first team in Africa to win CAF Champions League three successive times.

Abou Treika is the most popular player in the world according to a survey taken by the IFFHS in 2008. Also got a 15 million contract from english football club Reading but he declined it because he loves the club that he plays for and he's famous in egypt and the middle east and Africa.

[edit] African footballer of the year 2006
Aboutreika, who is Egypt's newest idol according to the FIFA.com expression[1], was nominated to win the 2006 CAF African Footballer of the Year award. Mohamed Aboutreika had been nominated for the Award along with Chelsea striker Didier Drogba and Barcelona forward Samuel Eto'o. The other nominees for the honour were Ghana international midfielder Michael Essien, who plays for English Giants Chelsea, and Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu, who has twice grabbed the award. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony which was scheduled to be staged in Nigeria on the January 18, but has been postponed to March 1st 2007 and the new venue was in Accra, Ghana.

Aboutreika said in November 2006: 'I would love to be nominated for the CAF Best Player award. That would make 2006 a very special year!'.[2]

Aboutrika was the only African based player between nominees, but he is also the only one who made an achievement for his national team this year by winning African Cup of Nations 2006. Aboutrika's brace in FIFA Club World Cup 2006 and his dazzling performances throughout the season made him a serious contender for the CAF African Footballer of the Year award (as well as the BBC one) and secured his standing as Egypt's most popular personality. He did not win the prize but got second place and later was given "best inter-club player" and "best player in the African Champions League."

"Aboutrika has won the highest prize any person can achieve, that is the love of the people," sports columnist Hassan Mistikawi wrote in the top-selling state-owned Al-Ahram daily.

El-Ahly Portuguese coach Manuel Jose de Jesus describes Aboutreika as "the best football player in Africa". He said that Aboutreika has more and more skills that didn't appear in Japan. He said: "Aboutreika didn't introduce all what he has in FIFA Club World Cup 2006, but he got the top scorer title and helped leading his team to the third place". Jose sees Aboutreika as one of the best players he ever trained. He assured this meaning saying: "Aboutreika is priceless for us. I can't imagine my team without him".

[edit] Memorable Shots
Stroking a superb flighted free-kick over the wall scoring the second goal for Al-Ahly against Auckland City FC of New Zealand. The game ended 2-0 for El-Ahly, in the opening match of FIFA Club World Championship 2006. Aboutreika once again scored on a set piece against Club America of Mexico in the 3rd place match and in the second half he scored the winning goal for El-Ahly through an outstanding one-two exchange with Flavio that split the Club America defense.
An unexpected left-shot volley in the 92nd minute in CAF Champions League 2006 final against CSS Sfaxien in Rades Tunisian Stadium, giving El-Ahly a 1-0 lead and Al-Ahly won the title for the fifth time.
Scoring the winning penalty against Ivory Coast in the penalty shoot-out to decide the winner of the African Cup of Nations in the final in Cairo, Egypt 2006. The penalty gave his national team a continental record, which is, winning the African Cup of Nations five times.
An outrageous effort from 30 yards out in the CAF Champions League 2005 final against Etoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia in Egypt's Military Academy Stadium.
A double kick memorable goal against El-Geish in the 8-round game of Egyptian Soccer Cup 2007, a match ended 3-1 for El-Ahly.
One neck-saving equalizer in the last 2 minutes on July 2nd 2007 in the Egyptian Soccer Cup final with arch-rivals El-Zamalek in the Cairo derby resulting in extra-time after tying 2-2. After El Zamalek grabbed their third in the first half of extra-time, Aboutrika dazzeled the stands with two great balls, one an assisted cross over the whites' defense to Osama Hosny to score the equlizer in second half of extra-time in the first seconds of the game and within a minute, provided an accurate through pass to Ahmad Sedik who went through on goal and assisted again for Osama Hosny for the late winner.
A beautiful goal in the 38th minute on Monday 17th September 2007 in the 100th league match between Ahly and Zamalek after feinting Zamalek's Abdel Monsef and cooly taking the shot in the other direction.

[edit] Personal life
Aboutreika is a player known off the pitch for his good manners. His personality is said to be as great as his silky skills.

After winning the title of African Champions League 2006 for El-Ahly, he gave a declaration which had been chosen by many newspapers and programs as 'The Declaration of the year'. When newspapers reporters praised him and his goal which they considered the main reason for winning the tournament, he replied humbly:

" We need to stop this habit of praising a definite player. It isn't Aboutreika, but the whole team who got the Cup. Without the others' efforts, I can't ever make anything. Football is a game played by many players, it isn't Tennis or Squash"

Hassan El-Shazli, the former famous Egyptian player, was the first one to discover Aboutreika's talent and develop it. He narrates a story about Aboutreika's manners when he was in Tersana. He said that when the chairman of Tersana club want Aboutreika and a team-mate defender to sign their new contracts, he put a very high salary for Aboutreika compared to that of his team-mate, but Aboutreika refused to sign, and insisted to take the same salary as his team-mate although it was much lower. El-Shazli's attempts failed to persuade Aboutreika that his role for the club is much greater than this defender, and finally, Aboutreika insisted on equality and signed his contract as lower as his team-mate.

As his soccer star status grew in Africa, he turned his sights to humanitarian issues. Aboutreika says:

“Every athlete has a humanitarian role in society. He doesn't live solely for himself, but for others too. I like to participate in charity work and try my best to help the poor and penniless. I'm also seeking to use soccer in humanitarian work."

Based on that idea, Aboutreika joined UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors the Brazilian player Ronaldo, and French player, Zinedine Zidane, in addition to 40 international soccer stars in 2005 for a ‘Match Against Poverty’ in Germany, with the aim of raising funds and increasing awareness about the issue worldwide. He scored in that match.

“In that humanitarian match, sports people said ‘no to poverty’ in one strong voice, standing up to beat it once and for all," Aboutreika explains. The match was held in Düsseldorf, Germany with the support of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA.

One of Aboutreika’s soccer role models, is the Egyptian player, Mahmoud El-Khateeb. Meanwhile, off the pitch he follows the example of the Prophet Mohammed.[3]

He volunteered to appear in a WFP 30-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) in which he draws attention to the tragic fact that 25,000 people die from hunger every day, 18,000 of them children.

“Hunger takes away a child every five seconds. We have to move immediately and lend each other a hand because every second counts. This is a game we have to win,” says Aboutreika in the PSA. The PSA is being aired on Middle Eastern TV stations which are broadcasting it for free.

Aboutreika is a WFP Ambassador Against Hunger. He believes that poverty is a double-edged sword, as it can either give rise to feelings of despair, or help the poor person to persevere and be determined. Aboutreika wishes that all those who suffer from despair could develop determination and face their difficulties with strength.

"Islam deals with the problem of poverty through Zakat (spending a fixed portion of one's wealth for the poor or needy), where the rich feel the plight of the poor," says Aboutreika. "We have to help the poor as much as we can so that they don’t feel alienated in their own society" he says.[4]

Aboutreika shot another PSA in Egypt, for helping the children with cancer. He made it for free, and donated funds to help build a hospital for them.

In January 2007, Aboutreika led the Blood Donation Campaign held by Egyptian Ministry of Health. He appeared in PSAs for free and donated with his blood.

After scoring a goal in Egypt's 3-0 win over Sudan in the 2008 African Cup of Nations, Aboutreika removed his jersey to show a T-shirt reading "Sympathize with Gaza." Israel had recently responded to longstanding rocket attacks by reducing the amount of electricity it supplied to the Gaza Strip, and Egypt was struggling to remove the many Gazans who as a result had illegally entered its territory. Aboutreika was given a yellow card for breaking FIFA's rule against displaying political slogans during play, and faces possible further sanctions.[5]

Aboutreika is a graduate from Cairo University with a bachelor of arts degree in History. He is married and has twins, Ahmed and Seif.

[edit] Honours
National Team

Winner of African Cup of Nations Egypt 2006 playing for Egypt.
Club

Bronze Medalist at FIFA Club World Cup 2006
Winner of CAF Champions League 2006.
Winner of CAF Champions League 2005.
Winner of Egyptian League (2006-2007).
Winner of Egyptian League (2005-2006).
Winner of Egyptian League (2004-2005).
Winner of African Super Cup (2007).
Winner of African Super Cup (2006).
Winner of Egyptian Soccer Cup (2007).
Winner of Egyptian Soccer Cup (2006).
Winner of Egyptian Super Cup (2007).
Winner of Egyptian Super Cup (2006).
Winner of Egyptian Super Cup (2005).
Individual

Winner of the 2006 CAF Best African player in Club Competitions.[6]
Nominated for the 2006 CAF African Footballer of the Year award.
Nominated for the 2006 BBC African Footballer of the Year award.[7]
Top scorer in the Egyptian League (2005-2006) with 18 goals.
Top scorer in the Egyptian Soccer Cup (2007) with 4 goals.
Top scorer in the CAF Champions League 2006 with 8 goals.
Top scorer in the FIFA Club World Cup 2006 with 3 goals.
Best Player in Egypt 2007.
Best Player in Egypt 2006.
Best Player in Egypt 2005.
Best Player in Egypt 2004.
Participated in 2 successive FIFA Club World Cups with Al-Ahly in 2005 and 2006.
Participated in the World Stars Football match Ronaldo vs. Zidane in Dec 2005.
Scorer of 7 goals in the Egyptian Derby, the third player ever to reach this milestone alongside Ahly's Touto and Zamalek's Alaa El Hamooly. Also got a 15 million contract from english football club Reading but he declined it because he loves the club that he plays for and he's famous in egypt and the middle east. (read less)
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First Steps
Abo Treika was born on 7th of November 1978 in the city of Giza. Like most football players, he lived a simple life playing football in the streets and honing his skills. When he turned 21, his friend, Magdi Abed, suggested he take the fitness test at Tersana Club, the second biggest club in Giza after Al Ahly. Indeed,... (read more)

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