- Source: Mahmoud El-Gohary
- Piala Negara-Negara Afrika 1959
- Tim nasional sepak bola Mesir
- Al-Ahli Saudi FC
- Zamalek SC
- Grup F Piala Dunia FIFA 1990
- Mahmoud El-Gohary
- Jordan national football team
- 1959 African Cup of Nations
- 2004 AFC Asian Cup squads
- History of Al Ahly SC
- Al Masry SC
- Al-Ahli Saudi FC
- Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics
- Al Wahda FC
- Ittihad Club
Mahmoud Nuseir Youssef El-Gohary (Arabic: محمود نصير يوسف الجوهري; 20 February 1938 – 31 August 2012) was an Egyptian footballer and football coach.
Career
As a player, El-Gohary had a short-lived career. A persistent knee injury forced him into early retirement in 1961, cutting short a promising career. In the 1959 African Cup of Nations, which Egypt won, he ended as the top scorer in the competition. He was also part of Egypt's squad for the 1960 Summer Olympics. After his retirement from the game, El-Gohary became a coach with Al Ahly, eventually becoming an assistant manager from 1965 to 1977.
In 1977, he became assistant manager to Dettmar Cramer at Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. Cramer left Al-Ittihad at the end of the 1981 season and El-Gohary was promoted to manager. Al-Ittihad won their first ever Saudi Premier League and El-Gohary won the first of many trophies as a manager. At Al Ahly, he won the first African League titles – African League Winners and African League Cup winners. With Zamalek, he won the 1993 African Cup of Champions Clubs and the first African Super Cup in 1994 against Al Ahly in the infamous African Game of the 20th Century.
Under his leadership, Egypt’s national football team, he qualified for the World Cup in 1990, after the country's 56-year absence from the tournament. He also won with Egypt the Arab Cup in 1992 and the Africa Cup of Nations in 1998. Under El-Gohary's management, the Jordanian national football team reached the highest FIFA World Rankings in history when they reached 37th rank in August 2004. Under the leadership of El-Gohary, the Jordanian national team qualified for their first (AFC) Asian Football Confederation in China 2004. Jordan reached the quarterfinals of the tournament but failed to qualify for the semifinals after losing to Japan in a penalty shoot-out, resulting in a score of 1–1. In the West Asian Football Federation Championship Tournaments of 2004 and 2007, El-Gohary helped Jordan win third place.
After he retired as a football coach, he worked as the technical director for the Egyptian Football Association. Later, he became the technical adviser for the Jordan Football Association. He transformed the Jordanian Football League to a professional body, and he has various Football Academies for youth placed under Prince Ali's name. He died on 31 August 2012, in Amman, Jordan.
Honours
= Player
=Al Ahly
Egyptian Premier League: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61,
Egypt Cup: 1956, 1958, 1961
Egypt
African Cup of Nations: 1959
= Manager
=Al Ahly
Egyptian Premier League: 1982–83
African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1982
Zamalek
African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1993
CAF Super Cup: 1994
Egypt
Arab Nations Cup: 1992
African Cup of Nations: 1998
References
External links
BBC Sport profile
Mahmoud El-Gohary Profile at egyptianfootball.net