26th June, 2018|Sport|Omori, Omori
Egypt's 45 years and 161 days old keeper,Essam El-Hadary broke the previous record, held by Colombia’s Faryd Mondragon (43 years and three days) set at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to be the oldest player to ever play in a World Cup.
In his 153rd career appearance for the national team, El-Hadary made a quick impact, reacting quickly to save a penalty from Saudi Arabia’s Fahad Al-Muwallad in the first half. Egypt later suffers defeat in the game with Salem Al-Dawsari grabbed the winning goal to give the Saudi Arabia a 2-1 victory.
El-Hadary made his first professional appearance in 1993 for local club Damietta and played his first game for Egypt in 1996
The veteran has spent the majority of his career with Cairo-based club Al-Ahly, where he has won eight Egyptian Premier League titles, four Egypt Cups, four Egyptian Super Cups and four CAF Champions League titles.
Egypt finishes the Russia 2018 World cup tournament having lost all three matches, sit at the bottom of Group A with Uruguay topping the group with 9 points, closely followed by the host country, Russia with 6 points while Saudis ended their world cup campaign with 3 points
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