TEAM COMPOSITION

ZML / Zamalek

Cairo, Egypt

Team manager	SIRAJ SABRI
Coach	ELLAKANY MOHAMED
Assistant coach	ELSHAFEI EMAD
Assistant coach 2	ELHOSARY HASSAN
Doctor	HANNA AYMAN
Physiotherapist	HELAL AHMED
Journalist	DEMERDASH MOHAMED

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Country
	1	Saleh	Youssef	S. FATHY	25.07.1982	192	90	345	332	EGY
	2	Ahmed	Ellakany	ELLAKANY	12.03.1989	194	84	347	336	EGY
	4	Mohamed	Khattab	M. KHATTAB	05.11.1989	202	78	341	335	EGY
	5	Ahmed	KABARY	A. KABARY	23.09.1984	197	90	345	337	EGY
L	6	Wael	Alaydy	ALAYDY	08.12.1971	178	78	320	300	EGY
C	7	Ashraf	Abouelhassan	ASHRAF	17.05.1975	186	86	325	318	EGY
	10	Mohamed	El Daabousi	DAABOUSI	01.03.1987	202	107	348	342	EGY
	11	Ahmed	Afifi	YOUSSEF	30.03.1988	194	92	347	342	EGY
	13	Mohamed	Badawy	MONEIM	11.01.1986	197	97	351	343	EGY
	15	Ahmed	Abdelaal	A. ABDELAAL	08.06.1989	185	85	312	307	EGY
	16	Mohamed	Seif Elnasr	M. ALI	05.09.1983	202	89	345	339	EGY
	17	Reda	Haikal	REDA	07.11.1990	198	90	350	342	EGY

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

The first volleyball team in Zamalek was started in September 1952. At that time they were headed by Mr. Osman Shahatah Hamid.

The team started participating in domestic competition in 1953. The club have been in the First Level Division - Local League for over three decades, and have emerged as winners 13 times since 1979. Internationally, Zamalek have won the African championship six times (1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, 2009 and 2012). They have also won the Arab championship twice, in 1986 and 1988.

Captain Mahmoud Faranoni was the force behind the establishment of the Zamalek Club volleyball team. He was one of the most distinguished coaches in the world, and coached Team Canada in addition to setting up the club’s volleyball team.

Faranoni was succeeded by Captian Nabile Kotb, a talented and distinguished player and a superstar in this time, then Captain Ahmed Elgamal from 1962 to 1983. Elgamal was also the Egyptian national team coach.

The current coach is Mr. Mohamed Ellakany.

Coach profile

Mohamed Ellakany was born in 1962. He was an Egyptian national team player from 1980 until 1990, and holds bachelor's degree in science and education.

Ellakany has coached Zamalek's men's team in the Egyptian League before, on three separate occasions in 1990, 1993 and 2000. He also coached Gezira men's team in the Egyptian League in 2002 and 2006, the Petrojet men's team in 2003 and 2008, and Bani Yas men's team in the U.A.E League in 2007.

Back at Zamalek for 2011 and 2012, Ellakany led the team to victory in the 2012 African Club Championship and qualified for the 2012 Club World championships in Doha.

Internationally, Ellakany first served as assistant coach for the Egyptian senior men's team from 1993 - 1996 before taking over as head coach all Africa games in 1999.

He was the coach of the Egyptian junior men's national team from 2009 to 2011.