Mustafa Mansour

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Mustafa Mansour
Mansour with Egypt in 1936
Personal information
Full name Mustafa Kamel Mansour
Date of birth (1914-08-02)2 August 1914
Place of birth Cairo, Egypt
Date of death 24 July 2002(2002-07-24) (aged 87)
Place of death Cairo, Egypt
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Al Ahly
1937–1939[1] Queen's Park 41 (0)
International career
Egypt
Managerial career
Al Ahly
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mustafa Kamel Mansour (2 August 1914 – 24 July 2002) was an Egyptian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Egypt at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He is also notable for being one of the first non-British or Irish players to play in the Scottish leagues.[2]

Playing career

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Mansour played for Cairo-based club Al Ahly in his native country, where his performances earned him a selection for the 1934 World Cup in Italy. He played in Egypt's only game at the tournament, a 4–2 defeat to Hungary in the first round in Naples.[3][4]

Mansour also played for Egypt at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.[5]

Egypt's coach at the World Cup had been a Scotsman,

Queens Park, becoming their regular goalkeeper upon the retirement of Desmond White (future chairman of Celtic) during the 1938–39 season.[8][4]

Coaching career and later life

In the late thirties, "Tuffy" Mansour as he was known, was a popular adult leader in the 72nd Glasgow Scout Troop.[citation needed]

Mansour returned to Egypt when the

Second World War broke out, where he would later manage former club Al Ahly, as well as become a government minister.[4]

He died in July 2002, at age 87.[9][4] Only weeks before his death, he had given an interview to BBC Sport on their visit to Cairo in the run-up to the World Cup being held in Japan and South Korea that summer.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Mansour, Mustafa Kamel". QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Mustafa Mansour". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "The Flying Egyptian". BBC Sport. 3 May 2002.
  4. ^ a b c d "People: Mustafa Kamel Mansour". QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Moustafa Kamel Mansour Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
  6. ^ "Palestine & the World Cup Bankies Glory Days More Inter-League". Scottishleague.Net.
  7. ISBN 9780415246293
    . Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Egyptian Mansour made his name known at Queen's Park". Evening Times Online. 14 December 2005.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ Shaheen, Amr (24 July 2002). "Trailblazing keeper Mansour dies". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation.
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