Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Abu Trika is a former Egyptian international football player, who used to play as an attacking midfielder or as a second striker. He is distinguished as a playmaker and contributes to attacking and scoring goals, as well as magic touches, dribbling and penetration skills, as his playing style has been compared to the famous French player Zinedine Zidane.
He started his football career by playing with Tersana Club as a junior, then moved to the club's first team and was able to ascend to the Egyptian Premier League and played with them for 4 seasons. The tournament’s top scorer title at the time, in addition to 5 African Champions Leagues: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013, and 4 African Super Cups. He also won 7 league championships, 3 cups and 4 local Super Cups with Al-Ahly Club. In 2012, he moved to Baniyas on loan, where he won the Gulf Club Football Championship with them, then returned again to Al-Ahly in 2013 and was able to win the 2013 African Champions League for the fifth time with Al-Ahly, and after the tournament ended, he announced that the Club World Cup would be the last Ultimate in the world of football.
He started international play in 2001 with the Egyptian national football team and participated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers as a key player for the first time, then the 2006 African Cup of Nations, where he started his brilliance when he scored two goals and scored the last penalty kick that contributed to the Egyptian team winning the championship. Then winning the same tournament in 2008 for the second time in a row, then playing the World Cup for Confederations in 2009 and was able with his team to perform a good performance in the tournament, including the victory over the Italian team, the world champion at the time.
Aboutrika won the CAF award for the best African player within the continent 4 times and is the record holder for it. So far, about the historical scorer of the African Champions League with 33 goals, Abu Trika is also the historical top scorer for the Cairo derby (the top match) with 13 goals, and he is also considered One of the FIFA Centennial Club and one of the Hundred Club with 105 goals, and in 2014 Aboutrika was chosen by FIFA among the best players of the FIFA Club World Cup in its history, and his goal in Hiroshima was chosen as the best goal in the history of the Club World Cup, and in 2014 CAF chose Abu Trika as an ambassador for African football, and in January 2016 Abu Trika was classified among the list of football legends by the (International Federation of Football History and Statistics), and in May 2016 he was honored by FIFA among a group of football legends at the FIFA Congress gala. 66 in Mexico.
Abu Trika won many individual titles at the global, African and local levels during his football career, which made him one of the most prominent players in the history of Egyptian, African and Arab football and one of the legends in the history of Al-Ahly Club, before he officially announced his retirement from playing in December 2013, and after his retirement from the work of Abu Trika A sports analyst for beIN Sports since the 2014 World Cup until now.
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