TEAM COMPOSITION

EGY / Egypt - Team Composition

Team manager	KAMAR Yasser
Head coach	ELSHEMERLY Sherif
Assistant coach	ELWAKIL Farag
Doctor	SALLAM Ossama
Therapist / trainer	ZALAM Sameh
Journalist	ELSHERBINI Hatem

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block
	2	Abdalla	Ahmed	ABDALLA	10.10.1983	198	72	352	331
	4	Ahmed	Abdelhay	A. SALAH	19.08.1984	197	87	342	316
	5	AbdelLatif	Ahmed	ABDEL LATIF	13.08.1983	202	90	345	325
L	6	Wael	Alaydy	ALAYDY	08.12.1971	178	78	320	300
C	7	Ashraf	Abouelhassan	ASHRAF	17.05.1975	186	86	325	318
	9	Rashad	Atia	RASHAD	02.09.1986	201	91	348	342
	10	Reda	Haikal	REDA	07.11.1990	198	90	350	342
	11	Ahmed	Afifi	YOUSSEF	30.03.1988	194	92	347	342
	13	Mohamed	Badawy	MONEIM	11.01.1986	197	97	351	343
	15	Ahmed	Abdel Fattah	MOSAD	14.06.1986	198	95	335	325
	16	Mohamed	Ketat	KETAT	02.03.1984	205	93	350	316
	17	Mahmoud	Abd El kader	RAOUF	12.05.1985	195	94	342	316
	18	Mohamed	Issa	MOSTAFA	12.04.1988	200	80	335	0
L	19	Mohamed	Moawad	MEAWAD	26.08.1987	194	90	321	310

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Egypt are one of the leading men’s teams in Africa and have participated in the Olympic Games three times (1984, 2000, 2008), the FIVB World Championship seven times (1974, 1978, 1986, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010), the FIVB World Cup five times (1977, 1985, 1995, 2003, 2007) and the FIVB World League four times (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010) and were the first African team to qualify for the World League.

Egypt qualified for this year’s FIVB World Cup after once again showing impressive form at continental level, winning the African Nations Championship in Morocco in September. They have been African champions six times – including the last four – and All-Africa Games champions five times.

At the last FIVB World Cup in 2007, Egypt, whose squad is usually dominated by players from Al Ahly Club, stepped up a level and were highly competitive against world-class teams. The North Africans won their last three matches to finish a respectable ninth. It is this sort of determination which is expected from Egypt. During the 2010 World Championship their innovation at the net and great team work helped them keep pace with more fancied opposition and once again, come November, it’s likely to be a similar scenario.

Coach profile

Sherif Hamdy El-Shemerly played for the Heliopoles club for 16 years whilst also going to represent Egypt as a player at the junior and senior level. As a coach, he has worked with club teams in Egypt and Qatar, and the national youth team of Qatar. Having taken over from Antonio Giacobbe as coach of Egypt in May 2011, he made an immediate impact, leading them to the African title. He has won a number of African titles with different national teams from Egypt and has also been awarded the Legion of Honour for his services to volleyball.