Essam Kamal Tawfiq El Hadary (Arabic: عصام كمال توفيق الحضري; born 15 January 1973) is an Egyptian goalkeeping coach and former professional footballer.
Nicknamed the "High Dam",[2][3] El Hadary spent the largest portion of his club career with Al Ahly, with whom he won eight Egyptian Premier League titles, four Egypt Cups, four Egyptian Super Cups, four CAF Champions League titles, three CAF Super Cups, one Arab Club Champions Cup, and two Arab Super Cups.
Third on the list of all-time appearances for Egypt,[4] El Hadary made 159 international appearances for his nation between 1996 and 2018. He won the Africa Cup of Nations four times, and was named the tournament's best goalkeeper on three occasions. In the 2018 World Cup, at the age of 45 years and 161 days, he became the oldest player in history to play in a World Cup match.[5]
After his retirement, he was very close to being the goalkeeping coach of Étoile Sahel of Tunisia, to be part of the technical staff under the leadership of Jorvan Vieira after agreeing to sign the contract, but his mother's illness forced him to step back in the end.[6]
^ abc"FIFA World Cup Russia 2018™: List of Players: Egypt" (PDF). FIFA. 4 June 2018. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2018.
^Sief, Ahmed (8 October 2017). "Hadry will be oldest goalkeeper in the World Cup". Egypt Today. Retrieved 22 June 2018. Essam el-Hadary, goalkeeper of the national team, is preparing for a new record to add to his records in football, that "the high dam" will be the [oldest] goalkeeper in the history of the World Cup.
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^Adel, Hazem (19 April 2018). "Egypt – Record International Players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
^"Milla, Zoff, El Hadary & the oldest players in World Cup history". Goal.com. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^"Etoile du Sahel: Essam El Hadary reveals why he refused the post of goalkeeper coach". africatopsports.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
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