Essam Baheeg ( ar, عصام بهيج; 26 February 1931 – 4 December 2008) was an Egyptian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a winger for

Zamalek Zamalek ( ar, الزمالك , ''al zamalek'') is an affluent district of western Cairo encompassing the northern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile River. The island is connected with the river banks through three bridges each on the east an ...

. He also played for the Egyptian national team, and represented his country and was part of the team that won the 1959 Africa Cup of Nations.

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International goals

Honours

Player

;Egypt: *

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

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1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

;Zamalek SC: *

Egypt Cup The Egypt Cup (also known as Egyptian FA Cup, formerly King Farouk Cup) is the main knockout football cup competition in Egypt. List of finals The following table provides a summary of seasons: Notes: * The Winner and Runner-up of 1960–61 Eg ...

: (5) *: 1951–52, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59 *

Cairo League The Cairo League is a former Egyptian football tournament. Before the start of Egyptian Premier League in its current form, the main competition was the Egypt Cup which started 1921. Egyptian federation started its 1st league competition (1938) in ...

: (3) *: 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53

Head coach

;Zamalek SC: *

Egyptian Premier League The Egyptian Premier League ( ar, الدوري المصري الممتاز), also known as WE Egyptian Premier League (WE EPL) after the addition of title sponsor WE, is a professional association football league in Egypt and the top level of th ...

: (1) *: 1987–88 *

Afro-Asian Club Championship The Afro-Asian Club Championship, sometimes referred to as the Afro-Asian Cup, was a football competition endorsed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC), contested between the winners of the Africa ...

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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

Artistic activity

He appeared at the movie

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(Hadeeth Al-Madina ar, حديث المدينة) in 1964.

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1931 births 2008 deaths Egyptian men's footballers Egypt men's international footballers Zamalek SC players 1959 African Cup of Nations players Africa Cup of Nations-winning players Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Egypt Zamalek SC managers Footballers from Alexandria Egyptian Premier League players Mediterranean Games medalists in football Men's association football wingers Egyptian football managers 20th-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-footy-midfielder-stub