Mohamed Abdel-Latif "Mimi" El-Sherbini ( ar, ميمي محمد عبد اللطيف الشربيني) (born 26 July 1938) is an Egyptian former

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 defender for Al-Ahly and the Egyptian national team. He took part in the 1959 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring in Egypt's 4–0 victory against

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

, and went on to win the tournament with the team. He also represented his country in the

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

and

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

Summer Olympics. After retiring, El-Sherbini moved into management, and was briefly in charge of the United Arab Emirates national team in 1975.

Honours

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 ...

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 ...

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* 1938 births Living people People from Mansoura, Egypt Egyptian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Egypt men's international footballers Al Ahly SC players Olympic footballers for Egypt Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1959 African Cup of Nations players 1962 African Cup of Nations players 1963 African Cup of Nations players United Arab Emirates national football team managers Africa Cup of Nations-winning players Egyptian Premier League players Egyptian football managers Egyptian expatriate football managers Egyptian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates {{Egypt-footy-defender-stub