Mohamed Zidan

Personal information :

Full name : Mohamed Abdullah Zidan
Date of birth : December 11, 1981
Place of birth : Port Said, Egypt
Height : 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Borussia Dortmund
Number : 10
Youth career :
1989–1999 Al-Masry
Senior career :
1999–2003 AB
2003–2004 Midtjylland
2005–2007 Werder Bremen
2005–2006 Mainz 05 (loan)
2007 Mainz 05
2007–2008 Hamburger SV
2008– Borussia Dortmund
National team :
2005– Egypt

Club career

Early career

Zidan was born within Port Said, Egypt, towards an Egyptian family. His career activated as a striker for his hometown club Al-Masry within 1998. Al-Masry plunged Zidan because of a listened scarcity of ratifying proficiency leading towards his relations transporting towards Denmark. In his former year within Denmark, whilst coaching with B93 for a contract, he performed a few toys for the Danish-Turkish club FC Anatolien, already Kokkedal BK, within Nivå within the Northern Seeland of Denmark. Zidan was scouted via the Danish Superliga club Akademisk Boldklub (AB) whilst he was juggling a ball at a Danish park within 1999. In June 2003, he transported towards the league rivals FC Midtjylland (FCM), as AB experienced financial hardship. At FCM, he became the league's top scorer within the 2003–04 season, and he was honored the Rookie of the year honor, becoming Player of the Year the consecutive season. In everybody, he scored thirty goals within 47 impressions for FC Midtjylland, and specially his nine goals within the former three toys of FCM's freshly constructed SAS Arena stadium, made the stadium colloquially known as "Zidan Arena". Also, his number 14 shirt was retired.

Werder Bremen and Mainz 05

Zidan's operation within the Danish League had resulted within numerous top European clubs gaining interest within signing the striker. In the winter contravene of the 2004–05 season, he was bought via German club SV Werder Bremen for a fee of three million Euros and was awarded the number 9 jersey. Initially, the striker made relatively an impression with the general social, having scored ten goals within three friendly toys for Bremen. Even although he scored an official goal within his former two impressions, he was loaned out towards FSV Mainz 05 for the remainder of the 2005–06 season. He went onto towards score 9 goals within 26 impressions, seven as a substitute. In the 2006–07 pre-season friendly fits, he reserved his form with Werder Bremen, activating six of the seven fits he has performed and scoring 4 goals. Zidan's operation within the semi-final match of the German League Cup against Hamburger SV, onto August 1, 2006, incorporating bagging a goal within the 50th minute, incurred him the man of the match honor and ensured his club's qualification towards the cup final. However, as soon as a trail of stings, Zidan was onto the obtaining end of less performing time. After months of speculations, consecutive the limited performing moment and stings, Werder Bremen informed that, onto January 16, 2007, Zidan would be moved towards Mainz for a reported three million Euros which made it the biggest ever purchase within the club's history, ratifying his medical onto Wednesday 17th. He scored six goals within the former 5 fits with novel club, catapulting the team from last towards 10th site onto 1 March 2007 with 27 points. The Egyptian skill also obtained 50% of votes via "Kicker" journal and incurred himself the title of "Player of the Month" within February within Germany, whilst Mainz became "Team of the Month" within the German Bundesliga.

Fans of Mainz relished Zidan since his credit spell with the red shirt within which he managed towards dazzle them with his ability, skill, and goals. The most notable appear of skill was within a toy against Bayern München during the 2005/2006 season. Zidan incurred a man of the match honor when he dribbled beyond Philipp Lahm and scored against Oliver Kahn. Whilst loaned towards Mainz, Zidan even scored a goal against the club he was contracted towards, Werder Bremen within 14 seconds. This spotted it as the fastest goal scored within the Bundesliga season and is ordered 6th as the rapid fastest scored goals within the Bundesliga's history. In an interview with Bild journal within Germany, Zidan admitted that he has tall aspirations and has ambitions towards play within either "Barcelona, Real Madrid, Liverpool or Manchester United". He reported that he needs towards play for Barcelona within the next three years towards play beside Brazilian sensation Ronaldinho or Liverpool towards play with Steven Gerrard. During the 2007 season Zidan contributed a lot spectacular goals, but could not retain Mainz from relegation. The club had alone been able towards score 34 goals within the entire season, 13 of which, despite having performed for less than halves of a season, arrived from the Egyptian forward's feet. Unfortunately Zidan's hard-work and precious solo contribution was insufficient towards deter Mainz from the depths of despair of being relegated towards the second division. However, Zidan's profession was noticed via number of top established clubs based within Spain, France and England as well as German Champions VfB Stuttgart.

Hamburg SV

Zidan's operate of nice form during the 2006/2007 season fueled a lot shift rumors, and principal clubs as Hamburg SV, freshly crowned German Champions Stuttgart and numerous Spanish clubs were named as possible future clubs. Mainz executive Christian Heidel was very willing towards keep Zidan at the club, so the club could mount a promotion exam for the 2007/2008 2. Fußball-Bundesliga season. He was also known as the hamburglar. On June three, 2007 Zidan traversed a medical and thereby finalised his move towards Hamburger SV. He remarked that he always needed a move towards the north-German club, because he still has a lot ties towards Denmark. The shift fee was alleged towards be approximately €4,5 million, and Zidan shall be incurring round €2,5 million per season. Zidan was handed the number seven shirt, a number previously worn via Hamburg SV valued musician and Iranian captain, Mehdi Mahdavikia. Zidan proved himself as a capable striker and could tweak towards the novel team within friendly toys, often scoring when substituted or scoring 4 goals when he performed the full game. Mohamed Zidan scored his former official goal for Hamburg SV within the away DFB Pokal match versus Holstein Kiel. However numerous impressions within Hamburg's activate towards the Bundesliga observed Zidan goalless, and often substituted off ahead of the full 90 minutes of the game. Zidan however proved himself as a grave striker and playmaker, as he was carried onto as a spare against Bavarian giants Bayern München onto the 74th minute. Zidan scored his former Bundesliga goal for Hamburg within the 87th minute. It with the goal bearing a lot of moral as it ended Bayern's morning undefeated operate within the competition, was the former goal that Oliver Kahn had conceded up until otherwise and was also the third goal that Zidan has scored against Bayern during his years within the Bundesliga. He also scored Hamburg's alone goal within the toy against Real Madrid within the Emirates Cup which took site within the summer of 2008, and afterwards alone performed one competitive toy for Hamburg during the 2008–09 season, as a late spare within the former round of the DFB-Pokal against FC Ingolstadt 04.

Borussia Dortmund

Eventually, his moment at Hamburg swung out towards be for a short period. On August 17, 2008, Zidan's shift from Hamburg towards Borussia Dortmund was proved via both clubs' official websites as portion of a import that also observed Croatian international Mladen Petrić transporting within the opposite direction, with both musicians signing four-year contracts. Zidan suffered an sting within his knee that shall give away him for performing for almost six months or more. Dortmund also proved they possess obtained an officially undisclosed shift fee, which is suspected towards be quality round 5 million euros. His shift towards Dortmund reunited him with former Mainz 05 instructor, Jürgen Klopp, whom was within price of the club during Zidan's two successful spells there within 2005–06 and the second halves of the 2006–07 season. He obtained the number ten shirt. His former impression with Borussia Dortmund was onto August 23, 2008 against Bayern Munich. The toy ended 1–1.

International career

Football Association posted a fax onto December 23, 2005 towards Mainz, asking for an international call-up for Zidan. There was none respond from Mainz or the musician for that matter, and as a impact he drew much criticism from the Egyptian fans and officials alike. He had allegedly picked not towards portray Egypt, as he felt he would lose his activating dot with Mainz, as he felt the Egyptian team had none likelihood within successful the cup. However within a modern interview, as soon as Egypt had won the African Cup of Nations 2008, he reported that the reason he did not play within 2006 was because of a foot injury. In a January 2006 interview with the Danish tabloid newspaper B.T., Zidan assailed the Egyptian Football Association for contacting Mainz during Christmas moment when everybody was onto holiday, and remarked that the Egyptian national team should possess talked towards him personally, as they had with Tottenham Hotspur striker Mido. He also remarked that the Egyptian brain instructor Shehata had not handled him well, and that the complete thing appeared too unprofessional for him. In April 2006, Hassan Shehata declared he would never again invite Mohamed Zidan towards collaborate the national team. He reported, "Zidan rejected towards collaborate the team when we necessary him most, ahead of the Nations Cup. You can never numeral onto these kind of players"., during this moment there was also talk approximately Zidan longing towards play for the Denmark national team, whether the Egyptian squad did not need him. However, onto August 5, 2006, just 11 days ahead of Egypt's friendly match against Uruguay, Shehata backed down again his former decision via phoning Zidan up for the national team squad. However, Zidan remained improbable for the friendly match against Uruguay due towards an sting that constrained him towards miss Werder Bremen's season opener. Zidan was branded towards portray Egypt within the 2008 African Cup of Nations qualification match against Burundi, whereas he scored his former international goal alone 5 minutes as soon as kick-off, besides his overall impressive operation during the match.

Indeed, within Egypt's Africa Cup of Nations gate Group C match against Cameroon, within a match hotly billed as the Group C decider for top and second dots within the category, Zidan swung within a sensational operation, scoring two wonderful goals, assisting the African Champions' inflict for defending their title during an impressive 4–2 victory. Unofficially, he is broadly credited for the lone goal within the final against Cameroon, as his great decision towards fight for the ball and successful it dramatically from veteran defender Rigobert Song ruled towards him ratifying the aid towards Mohamed Aboutreika for the successful goal, which Zidan literally designed from nowhere. Zidan was not out of the woods yet when it arrives towards controversy as he was reportedly stung within coaching with the national team ahead of their match with Angola, ART reporter remarked that he idea that Zidan is being "spoilt", and that he rejected towards perpetuate the warm up and counseling for him ahead of the toy, this was denied via Shawky Gharib the Egyptian Head Coach, Zidan and the Manager Hassan Shehata. After lacking a few toys and a few activates as soon as the display within the gate Cameroon toy, Zidan was consumed as a spare onto several occasions, always posing a great threat towards the opposition. He was consumed within the Africa Cup of Nations Ghana 2008 as a striker, occasionally a lone striker, a winger and an offensive midfielder and provided out battling displays. One of the most notable acts was within the final with Cameroon when he applied pressure onto Cameroon legend Rigobert Song and effectively wrestling the ball out of the old defender's legs and managed towards resource Aboutreika with the final's successful goal. He is famous for leading Egypt towards victory within the Africa Cup of Nations final, which provided Egypt two serial victories of the tournament. In Egypt's gate 2009 Confederations Cup toy, Zidan scored two goals against Brazil within a 4–3 losing effort. He was branded again towards collaborate Egypt's squad for the Africa Cup of Nations Angola 2010. He was Egypt's striker along with Emad Moteab. He indicated an excellent operation within most of the fits specially within the opener against Nigeria. He scored his alone goal against Algeria within a match that ended 4–0, ahead of he assists another for Mohamed Abdel-Shafy. Again, he gear the final's successful goal, but not towards Aboutreika this moment, it was Mohamed Nagy Gedo whom ceased it within the net.