Sherif Ekramy Ahmed Ahmed El-Shahat ( ar, شريف إكرامي; born 10 July 1983) is an Egyptian

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who plays as a

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for

Pyramids FC Pyramids Football Club ( ar, نادي بيراميدز لكرة القدم or ) is an Egyptian professional football club based in Cairo that competes in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian football league system. ...

and the Egyptian national team. An

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youth product, Ekramy moved to Dutch club

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in 2005. At Feyenoord he received little playing time and was loaned to Ankaragücü in 2008. After four years at Feyenoord he returned to Egypt signing with

El Gouna FC El Gouna Football Club ( ar, نادي الجونة لكرة القدم), is an Egyptian association football club based in El Gouna, Hurghada, Egypt. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian foot ...

, whom he helped win promotion to the top flight for the 2009–10 season. He returned to

in 2010, where he stayed for ten years. In 2020, he joined Pyramids FC. Ekramy participated in two successive World Youth cups, the

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in Argentina, where he was part of the bronze-medal team, and the

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instalment in the United Arab Emirates. He is the son of

Ekramy El-Shahat Ekramy Ahmad El-Shahat ( arz, إكرامى أحمد الشحات) (born October 26, 1955) is an Egyptian former footballer. He played for the Egyptian side Al Ahly as well as Egypt in between 1971–1987, he is one of the best African Goalkeep ...

Club career

Al-Ahly

Ekramy was one of the most promising youngster in Al Ahly youth department so he was promoted for the first team in 2002 at the age of 19 although he never played for the first team until 2004. His amazing performance as a captain with Egypt U-20 in 2003

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helping The Young Pharaohs to win the title so he received a lot of offers but he decided finally to join

to be alongside his former team-mate

Hossam Ghaly Hossam Mohamed El Sayed Metwalli Abdel Sattar Ghaly ( ar, حسام محمد السيد متولي عبد الستار غالي; born 21 October 1981) is an Egyptian member of parliament. He is currently member of House of Representatives and boar ...

Feyenoord

Ekramy's spell in the Netherlands was not very successful. Although signed as a great talent, he was usually a reserve keeper. On 11 February 2007, he played his first Eredivisie match for Feyenoord against

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. With the club he only played seven matches in three years helping them to win the 2007–08 KNVB Cup in his last season.

Return to Al-Ahly

Ekramy rejoined Al-Ahly in 2010 until 2020, where he managed to win 21 domestic and continental titles.

Pyramids

In June 2020, Ekramy joined

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rivals

International career

In May 2018, he was named in Egypt’s preliminary

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for the

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in Russia.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours and achievements

Al Ahly *

(9): 2004–05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 *

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: 2016–17, 2019–20 *

Egyptian Super Cup The Egyptian Super Cup is Egyptian football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous Egyptian Premier League season and the holders of the Egypt Cup. If the Egyptian Premier League champions also won the Egypt Cup then the ...

: 2010,

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2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

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, 2019–20 *

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* CAF Super Cup:

References

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* Sportspeople from Cairo 1983 births Living people Egyptian footballers Association football goalkeepers Eredivisie players Egyptian Premier League players Süper Lig players Al Ahly SC players Feyenoord players MKE Ankaragücü footballers El Gouna FC players Pyramids FC players Egypt international footballers 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2018 FIFA World Cup players Egyptian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in Turkey {{Egypt-footy-goalkeeper-stub