Egypt men's national sitting volleyball team

The Egypt men's national sitting volleyball team represents Egypt in international sitting volleyball competitions and friendly matches. The team is one of the newcomers in the sport but quickly established themselves as a powerful team to play against. Egypt have appeared in several Paralympic and World Championships semi finals in the past decade.

Egypt
AssociationNational Paralympic Committee Egypt for Volleyball
Head coachRudi Sonnenbichler
Uniforms
Home
Away
Summer Paralympics
Appearances5 (First in 2000)
Best result (2) 2004, 2016
World Championship
Appearances5 (First in 1998)
Best result (2) 2006, 2010

Players

Egypt vs Brazil men's match at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio

The following is the Egypt roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[1]

Head coach: Mansour El Mohamdy

Name Date of birth Position 2012 club
1Hesham Abdelmaksod2 February 1975M El Houreya
2Tamer Morgan Khalil9 March 1971WS El Houreya
3Yasser Saad Abd El Wahab Hassan14 October 1973SE Police Sports Club Association
4Ashraf Zaghloul Abdel Aziz24 February 1974WS Police Sports Club Association
5Taher Adel Elbahaey9 June 1972SE El Houreya
6Ahmed Mohammed Soliman Khamis12 April 1987M Club Alexandria Petroleum
7Ahmed Mohammed Fadl1 March 1985WS Club Alexandria Petroleum
8Mohamed Ezzeldin Mohamed1 September 1992WS Club Alexandria Petroleum
9Elsayed Moussa Saad28 May 1979WS Police Sports Club Association
10Abdel Nabi Ahmed Abdel Latif18 June 1972L Police Sports Club Association
12Mohamed Ibrahim29 March 1979M Police Sports Club Association

Egypt roster in 2016:

  • 1 (S) ELSHWIKH Hesham (C) - Outside Hitter
  • 3 KHATER Shaaban - Outside Hitter
  • 4 (S) ABDALLA Ashraf - Opposite Spiker
  • 5 ZEID Mohamed - Setter
  • 6 (S) SOLIMAN Ahmed - Middle Block
  • 7 AMER Ahmed - Outside Hitter
  • 8 MASSOUD Hossam - Setter
  • 9 (S) MOUSSA Elsayed - Outside Hitter
  • 10 (S) ABDELLATIF Abdelnaby - Libero
  • 11 EID Sabry - Outside Hitter
  • 12 (S) ABOUELYAZEID Mohamed - Middle Block
  • 14 (S) ABOUELKHIR Metawa - Outside Hitter

Honours

[2]

Minor Tournaments

Sarajevo Open Championship:

  • Runners-Up (1): 2006
  • 4th place (1): 2016

World ranking

As at 28 September 2016.[3]

Rank Movement Country Points Region
1
Iran
5215 Asia-Oceania
2
Brazil
4708 Pan America
3 1
Egypt
4523 Africa
4 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
4300 Europe
5
Germany
3578 Europe

Coaching staff

[4]

Position Name Active
Head Coach ELAIUTY Mosaad
Assistant Coach ELBAHAEY Taher
Assistant Coach ABBAS Amim
Therapist/Trainer AHMED Amr

See also

References

  1. Men's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Egypt, london2012.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  2. Kwok Ng (26 September 2016). "Major Competitions". sittingvolleyball.omeka.net. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  3. worldparavolley.org. "World Ranking – Sitting Volleyball". worldparavolley.org. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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