Seven-time AFCON champions, Egypt, won the Africa Cup of Nations three times consecutively (2006, 2008 and 2010) during a four year golden generation period. Mohamed Aboutrika, Ahmed Hassan, Amr Zaki, Mohamed Shawky, Mohamed Zidan, Emad Moteab, Hosny Abd Rabo, Essam El-Hadary, Ahmed Fathy, Hossam Ghaly and Hany Said were indeed among the inspirational catalysts and national heroes throughout the Pharaoh’s unprecedented three consecutive Africa Cup of Nations championships. Egypt, currently ranked 57th in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings, presently gear to the Egyptian national treasure and Liverpool superstar, Mohamed Salah, to potentially usher the Pharaoh’s to AFCON glory this summer on home soil.
Esteemed GOAL Arabia journalist and Egyptian professional football expert, Mahmoud Diaa, is a prominent figure within the Egyptian professional sports media realm and has remained a key proponent in GOAL Arabia’s ongoing success; GOAL Arabia has over 9.8 million followers of Facebook, 3.1 million followers on Instagram and close to 400k followers on Twitter.
GOAL, founded in 2004 by Chicco Merighi and Gianluigi Longinotti-Buitoni, is currently owned by Perform Group and is the largest online professional football publication in the world, the second largest online sports publication in the world (behind ESPN only).
