Mido

Mido — full name Ahmed Hossam Hussein Abdel Hamid Wasfi — is an Egyptian football manager and former striker, born in Cairo in 1983. ¹ A Zamalek youth product, he won the Belgian Ebony Shoe with Gent and went on to play for Ajax, Marseille, Roma, Tottenham Hotspur and Middlesbrough among many clubs; he won 51 caps and scored 19 goals for Egypt, and after retiring became a coach, managing Zamalek twice among other clubs. ¹² The sources file him generically as a Muslim and name no school for him, so his data record leaves his faith as unknown. ¹³

Mido began at Zamalek in 1999 and moved to Belgium's Gent in 2000, where his scoring won him the Ebony Shoe and a 2001 transfer to Ajax. ¹² A loan at Celta Vigo was followed by Marseille in 2003 and Roma in 2004; in England he played for Tottenham Hotspur — first on loan, then permanently — and Middlesbrough, with further loans at Wigan Athletic, Zamalek and West Ham United, before returning to Ajax and Zamalek and finishing his playing career at Barnsley in 2012–13. ¹ In all he made 219 club appearances and scored 73 goals. ¹

Mido played for Egypt's under-20 side and then the senior national team from 2001 to 2009, winning 51 caps and scoring 19 goals. ¹ He was a member of the Egypt squad that won the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil. ¹

Mido moved into coaching in 2014 with Zamalek, and has since managed Ismaily (twice), Zamalek again, Wadi Degla, Saudi club Al Wehda and Misr Lel Makkasa, alongside work as a television presenter and pundit. ¹² His father, Hossam Wasfi, had also played for Zamalek; Mido married at 19 and has three sons. ¹ At 34 his weight reached 150 kg and put him at risk of diabetes; he lost 37 kg in five months. ¹

Neither article states Mido's religion in its text. The English article reports that during a match at Newcastle in 2007 he was reportedly subjected to Islamophobic abuse from some supporters, which the Football Association was to investigate, and files him under the category "Egyptian Muslims"; the Arabic article carries the same category and the same incident. ¹² Wikidata gives his religion as Islam, generically. ³ Abuse aimed at a man perceived as Muslim and a category filing are not attestations of a school, and no source read names a madhhab for him personally, so his record states his faith as unknown. ¹

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