The last few hours witnessed the departure Mimi El-Sherbiny One of the club’s stars Al-Ahly In the fifties and sixties, the legend of football commentary, at the age of 88, after a long struggle with illness.
Mimi El-Sherbiny in a memorial photo with his Al-Ahly teammates before one of the matches
El-Sherbiny was born in 1938 in Mansoura. He started playing football in the Egyptian Club in 1953. He moved to Al-Ahly when Abdou El-Baqal, a scout for the Red Castle, discovered him in one of the matches for the Faculty of Commerce at Cairo University. He was impressed by the skill of the player Mimi El-Sherbiny, who was a player in the Cairo-based Al-Masry team, so El-Baqal tested him in A friendly match, and Amin Shaair, the football secretary at the time, notified Al-Ahly of his desire to include the player, but Shair asked for a delay until the financial compensation that would be paid to the club for which El-Sherbiny plays was prepared to obtain his redundancy, but Zamalek intervened in the deal during the period of Al-Ahly preparing the financial compensation to obtain the player’s redundancy.
Mimi El-Sherbiny Halal, one of the matches between Al-Ahly and Zamalek
At that time, the grocer went with Shair to the player’s house, and they found Zamalek men under the building waiting for El-Sherbiny to take him to the Zamalek club. The grocer resorted to a trick where he entered the player’s room in the house and smuggled him out. He took the clothes of the property guard’s wife and made El-Sherbiny wear them, which consisted of a wrap sheet, a burqa, a handkerchief, and slippers. He had a vegetable sausage in his hand, went down to the street and got into a taxi, and El-Sherbiny was hidden by the smartness of the former Al-Ahly player, until… Obtaining El-Sherbiny’s dismissal and signing it for Al-Ahly.
El-Sherbiny won several championships with Al-Ahly, including the league championship 4 seasons, the Egypt Cup 3 times, and at the national team level, he won the African Championship in 1959.
He retired from playing in 1970 and went into coaching, where he coached the UAE national team in 1975, and the Damietta Spinning team, then headed to commentate on matches.
Mimi El-Sherbiny is at the end of his career as a player with Al-Ahly
He appeared in the movie Strange in My House in his real character as a match commentator, as well as the movie Abu Al-Arabi.