Masry Players: Mohamed Zidan - used book

2010, ISBN: 9781156243176

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Appearances (Goals). National team caps and goals correct as of 6/3/2010Mohamed Abdullah Zidan (Arabic: ) (born December 11, 1981 in Port Said) is an Egyptian footballer who is a striker for German club Borussia Dortmund and the Egyptian national team. Zidan was born in Port Said, Egypt, to an Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Appearances (Goals). National team caps and goals correct as of 6/3/2010Mohamed Abdullah Zidan (Arabic: ) (born December 11, 1981 in Port Said) is an Egyptian footballer who is a striker for German club Borussia Dortmund and the Egyptian national team. Zidan was born in Port Said, Egypt, to an Egyptian family. His career started as a striker for his hometown club Al-Masry in 1998. Al-Masry dropped Zidan because of a perceived lack of passing ability leading to his family moving to Denmark. In his first year in Denmark, while training with B93 for a contract, he played a few games for the Danish-Turkish club FC Anatolien, now Kokkedal BK, in Nivå in the Northern Seeland of Denmark. Zidan was scouted by the Danish Superliga side Akademisk Boldklub (AB) while he was juggling a ball at a Danish park in 1999. In June 2003, he moved to the league rivals FC Midtjylland (FCM), as AB experienced financial hardship. At FCM, he became the league's top scorer in the 2003-04 season, and he was awarded the Rookie of the year award, becoming Player of the Year the following season. In all, he scored 30 goals in 47 appearances for FC Midtjylland, and especially his nine goals in the first three games of FCM's newly built SAS Arena stadium, made the stadium colloquially known as "Zidan Arena". Also, his number 14 shirt was retired, His performance in the Danish League had resulted in several top European clubs gaining interest in signing the striker. In the winter break of the 2004-05 season he was bought by German club SV Werder Bremen for a fee of 3 million Euros and was awarded the number 9 jersey. Initially, the striker made quite an impression with the general public, having scored 10 goals in 3 friendly games for Bremen. Even though he scored an offic. More: Books, , Masry-Players~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<