Basem Morsy
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bassem Morsi El Kotb Abdallah[2] | ||
| Date of birth | 1 January 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Tanta, Egypt | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AEL (on loan from Zamalek) | ||
| Number | 17 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2013 | Petrojet | 15 | (4) |
| 2013–2014 | El Entag El Harby | 18 | (10) |
| 2014– | Zamalek | 136 | (50) |
| 2018–2019 | → AEL (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014– | Egypt | 10 | (7) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:30, 29 September 2018 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 November 2016 | |||
Bassem Morsi[1] Elkotb Abdalla (Arabic: باسم مرسي القطب عبد الله) (born 1 January 1992) is an Egyptian footballer who plays for AEL in the Greek Super League, on loan from Egyptian Premier League side Zamalek as a striker. He also competes for the Egypt national team.
Club career
Petrojet
Morsi played with petrojet for 4 years scoring 4 goals in 13 matches. Petrojet manager then, Mokhtar Mokhtar, ended his contract with petrojet stating that Bassem became more obsessed with his looks than playing football.
El-Entag El-Harby
Bassem signed with the military club El-Entag El-Harby in 2013 where he became the star of the club. Although he scored nine goals in the league, he did not succeed of avoiding relegation to the second division at the end of the season.
Zamalek
On Wednesday July 2, 2014 Morsi[1] signed a three years contract with Zamalek record fee of E1.5 million to obtain Bassem.[1][3] On 25 October 2014, Basem Morsi scored his first goal for Zamalek against Smouha in the Egyptian Premier League. Morsi scored his first hat-trick with Zamalek on 15 July 2015 against Al Nasr. He succeeded in winning the Egyptian Premier League with Zamalek on his first season. He finished the season as the club top goalscorer with 19 goals and second goalscorer in the league after the top goalscorer Hossam Paulo. Bassem succeeded in winning Egypt Cup with Zamalek after he scored two goals against Zamalek rival Al Ahly SC in the cup final (2014-2015) and he repeated it again and scored another two goals against Al Ahly SC and won the cup again after winning (3-1)
International career
Bassem Morsi has been called up for Egypt for the first time in 2015 for a friendly match against Jamaica. On 4 June 2014 Morsi made his debut against Jamaica as a substitute and managed to score his first international goal to make it 2–2.[4] He celebrated his goal by pointing out to his shirt number 15, and drawing a heart in the air, dedicating the goal to his injured teammate Gedo, who missed the match due to a severe injury, used to celebrate the same way, and used to wear the same shirt.
International statistics
- As of 13 November 2016.[5]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 2014 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 5 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 10 | 7 | |
International goals
- Egypt score listed first, score column indicates score after each Morsy goal.[5]
| No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 June 2014 | Brisbane Road, London, England | 1 |  Jamaica |
2–2 | 2–2 | Friendly | [6] |
| 2 | 26 March 2015 | Petro Sport Stadium, Cairo, Egypt | 2 |  Equatorial Guinea |
1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly | [7] |
| 3 | 14 June 2015 | Borg El Arab Stadium, Alexandria, Egypt | 3 |  Tanzania |
2–0 | 3–0 | 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification | [8] |
| 4 | 6 September 2015 | Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya, N'Djamena, Chad | 4 |  Chad |
1–0 | 5–1 | 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification | [9] |
| 5 | 2–0 | |||||||
| 6 | 5–1 | |||||||
| 7 | 29 January 2016 | Aswan Stadium, Aswan, Egypt | 7 |  Libya |
2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly | [10] |
Honours
Club
- Zamalek SC
- Individual
References
- ^ a b c d "Bassem Morsi News - Goal.com". www.goal.com.
- ^ "Egyptian striker Bassem Morsi extends Zamalek stay: official - Egyptian Football - Sports - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg.
- ^ "حوار - باسم مرسي: الرقم 10 ومرتضى أسباب انضمامي للزمالك .. وسأكون النجم الأول". FilGoal.com.
- ^ Jamaica Egypt Draw 2–2 in London[permanent dead link] Jamicaobserver.com
- ^ a b "Morsy, Basem". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Report: Jamaica 2-2 Egypt". leytonorient.com. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Egypt 2-0 Equatorial Guinea: Hector Cuper era begins with a win". myjoyonline.com. 26 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Egypt defeat Tanzania 3-0 after inspired second half". kingfut.com. 14 June 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Morsy nets perfect hattrick in Chad drubbing". kingfut.com. 6 September 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Egypt beat Libya in match disrupted by teargas". english.ahram.org.eg. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2018.