FilGoal | News | An infection in the air of Argentina has made Jamal Hamza a popular symbol

The enthusiasm was at its height on June 17, 2001 and the Egyptian youth team opened its championship by meeting Jamaica, which by our standards we expected to crush it with at least three goals, but the negative tie was the most that the young pharaohs got in the first participation in the World Youth Cup since 1991.

Finding a place to watch ART Sports in 2001 – yes it was only one channel at this time – was difficult, but the search was overwhelming because the young pharaohs had to face the host, Argentina. Early progress by Muhammad Al-Yamani before Javier Saviola and his comrades, Mohammed Sobhi, scored 7 consecutive goals and killed enthusiasm and adrenaline after Al-Yamani’s goal.

Against Finland, the last hope was a penalty kick in the 10th minute, scored by Jamal Hamza, before he passed with his pure talent, which is taking place in its 35th year. A charming pass by the welsh of Riad “Chitos” dodged the goalkeeper, after which he scored the goal and scored the goal of going up to the second round … Yaaaaaa “, with an enthusiastic voice by commentator Ashraf Shaker.

Here we learned that enthusiasm is not the solution .. the solution is to be Jamal Hamza.

The 2001 Argentine championship was strange … full of talented people such as Saviola, Maxi Rodriguez, Raphael van der Vaart, Damarcus Paisley, Gabriel Cisse and Mohammed Al Yamani, but you feel that all these players were flashes that caught quickly and turned out more quickly.

“The most glamorous star burns himself faster,” James Hetfield, Metallica singer, 1996.

This makes us believe that it was a virus or infection that was not in the air of Argentina between June 17 and July 8, 2001, and because the Egyptian team continued in the championship until its end, Gamal Hamza was saturated with this infection. Pure talent marred by a lot of indifference.

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Zamalek .. 10 years of everything

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The beginning of the millennium was a good period in Zamalek, the league was restored after 7 consecutive years in which Al-Ahly won in the presence of a strong team decorated by the best player in Egypt at the time Tareq Al-Saeed joined by Hussam and Ibrahim Hassan with talents such as Walid Salah Abdel-Latif and Osama Nabih and scorers such as Abdel Halim Ali and Abdel Hamid Bassiouni and Abdel Latif Al-Domani, all of these were supported by the return of Hazem Imam from professionalism, so Zamalek’s victory in the league was a must. “Jimmy” can be placed here as a spectator because the title roles were full.

The following summer of this season saw the FIFA World Youth Cup, which produced a golden generation for Egyptian football. One of its stars was Hamza, who started in the 2001/2002 season to appear with Zamalek and scored two goals with the first team against the Ghazal Suez and the municipality of Mahalla in a disastrous season.

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Hazem Imam said of “Jimmy”: “Entering a 19-year-old player within that constellation was difficult, but we saw Jamal Hamza something, it was different in the way he played, whether inside the region or outside the penalty area.”

In two seasons, Gamal Hamzah fulfilled the emperor’s prophecy, achieving the League shield with Zamalek twice in a row, scoring 16 goals in half between the two seasons.

In each season, Hamza scored in Al-Ahly.

“I am not a lazy player, as some say. The only idea is that I don’t feel the pressure.”

Even in the worst periods of Zamalek between 2004 and 2010 when Hamza passed away, his registration in Al-Ahly was easy to anticipate. 7 goals that Jimmy scored in the net of Essam El-Hadary and Amir Abdel Hamid assured us once again that in many cases the derby is not about enthusiasm .. It is rather like Jamal Hamza.

Hamzah’s period with Zamalek actually contained everything, from successive victories and winning the league title twice, to local falls in 2005 and 2006 and approaching Al-Ahly in the 2007 Egypt Cup final before paying with Shikabala the price of Ahmed Hossam playing in the heart of defense and waking up Osama Hosni from Sleeping to bring the cup back to the island … everything, even physical struggles with fellow Ricardo, Amr Zaki and Junior Agogo.

229 matches in the white shirt scored 74 goals and set them among the historic scorers of Zamalek .. But what happened after that was a symptom of the disease that he suffered with the children of his generation in Argentina.

Why, Jimmy?

Jamal Hamza traveled after his contract with Zamalek to Germany, specifically to Mainz, and let’s be honest here, Hamza’s character will not rest, of course, with the strict German character, from July 1, 2009 to October 1 of the same year, then Jamal Hamza returned to El Gouna before he did what he might not A large segment of Zamalek’s fans have forgiven him so far.

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“I contracted with Al Ahly, but I did not last for more than a month. I regretted, of course, but it did not affect my history with Zamalek … It was an unfortunate experience and choice. “

Perhaps it was a reckless decision, just like Saviola’s decision to wait for the end of his contract with Barcelona to go to Real Madrid, but it happened and Jamal Hamza has not returned since then. ..But we love Jamal Hamza.

Why? Because he became a popular symbol for every talented person who decided not to care, because his talent would come to service at every difficult time he needed it. He may regret that a lot was waiting for him, but he decided that he would not do more than he did, and we regret that we missed a lot of football fun if Jimmy’s magic continued after 2010.

“The talented player in Zamalek has always relied throughout his history on his skill only … the talented player does not practice seriously to make up for the lack of fitness just as the rest of his teammates train“.

Thank you, Jamal Hamza, for giving us an excuse when we decide that our talent sometimes goes without fighting and may suffice without exhausting ourselves at work, and thank you for this infection in the air of Argentina.

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