TEAM COMPOSITION

EGY / Egypt

Team manager	ALY ELSERGANY
Coach	GABER ABOUZEID
Assistant coach	SHERIF SWILLAM
2nd assistant coach
Doctor
Physiotherapist	HESHAM MOURAD

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
	1	Marawan	Abdelbaky	MARAWAN	05.12.1992	193	82	336	325	Smouha SC
C	3	Ahmed	El Sayed	A. FATHY	14.01.1991	184	84	325	312	Tala'ea El-Gaish SC
	4	Hisham	Ewais	Hisham	26.02.1995	196	75	346	322	Aviation Club
	5	Moustafa Mohamed	Mohamed Ahmed Idris	Idris	05.07.1991	205	89	345	327	Etehad
L	6	Mohamed	Hassan	M. REDA	28.09.1993	193	76	319	302	Zamalek SC
	7	Mahmoud	Elnagar	Elbasha	04.01.1993	198	99	329	319	Ethad
	12	Mohamed	Khater	M.Aly	04.07.1991	200	85	334	328	TAYRAN
	13	Shehabeldeen	Mohamed	Shehab	27.07.1995	204	79	334	313	Shorta
	14	Omar	Hassan	TAYSON	04.04.1991	191	104	333	324	Tala'ea El-Gaish SC
	15	Ahmed	Elkotb	A. KOTB	23.07.1991	197	80	328	318	Al Ahly SC
	16	Sherif	Aly	SHERIF	24.04.1994	185	77	333	317	Al Ahly SC
	18	Ahmed	Shafik	A. SAEED	07.12.1994	190	97	349	323	Al Ahly SC

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

The team comprises a group of players from the Youth, Junior, and men’s teams as well as from several clubs from all over the republic. This team will give an opportunity for the players from the “B” team to participate in an international world championship and thus will open the field for them to become first-team players.

Most of the U23 players took part in other world championships with either the junior or youth teams. This team will expand the circle of players involved internationally and give the coach a better choice of players as it will raise the level of competition between the players. It will also improve the level of volleyball at the clubs the players belong to and raise the level of Youth and Junior national teams when they participate in their age-specific teams.

Coach profile

Gaber Abdelaty Abouzeid, 59, played for the Egyptian national team from 1972 to 1984, competing in a number of top tournaments, including the World Championship, Olympic Games, the World Cup and the African Championship, which Egypt won in 1976.

He became a coach in 1985, starting with the youth team at the Zamalek club. He moved on to become coach of Amal in Saudi Arabia and Alaain in the United Arab Emirates with whom he won three national titles. He returned to head the youth coaching at Zamalek and was technical director of the club from 1995 to 2006 during which time they won three championships, were Arab champions twice and African champions once. After three years as head of volleyball at Zamalek, he joined Smoha before becoming head coach of Egypt’s junior men’s team in 2012.