Rifaat El-Fanagily ( ar, رفعت الفناجيلي; 1 May 1936, in

Damietta Damietta ( arz, دمياط ' ; cop, ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, Tamiati) is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see. It is located at the Damietta branch, an easter ...

– 23 June 2004) was an Egyptian footballer who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Al-Ahly. He also played for the Egyptian national team, and was part of the team that won the

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...

and

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 ...

Africa Cup of Nations, and represented his country in the 1960 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 Patriarc ...

Summer Olympics.

Honours

;Al Ahly * Egyptian Premier League: 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1961–62 *

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 ...

: 1952–53, 1955–56, 1957–58, 1960–61, 1965–66 ;Egypt * Africa Cup of Nations: 1957, 1959

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* 1936 births 2004 deaths People from Damietta Egyptian footballers Association football midfielders Egypt international footballers Al Ahly SC players 1957 African Cup of Nations players 1959 African Cup of Nations players 1962 African Cup of Nations players 1963 African Cup of Nations players Olympic footballers of Egypt Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Africa Cup of Nations-winning players Egyptian Premier League players {{Egypt-footy-midfielder-stub