Hanafy Bastan (Arabic: حنفي بسطان) (6 January 1922 – 13 November 1995)[1] was an Egyptian footballer who played as a defender for Zamalek and the Egypt national team. He represented his country in the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics,[2][3] and was the captain of the team that won the 1957 African Cup of Nations.
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| Full name | Hanafy Bastan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 January 1922 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cairo, Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 November 1995 (aged 73) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1938 | Zamalek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1958 | Zamalek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1944–1957 | Egypt | 56 | (16) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1962 | Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Early life edit
Hanafy Bastan was born in 1923 in Sayyeda Zeinab, Cairo. He learned football skills by playing in Housh Ayoub Bey in Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood. He was the captain of the primary school, then the middle school, and finally the Saidia Secondary School. Mahmoud Badr El-Din, who was working as a coach at the time, saw him in one of their matches, and he joined the Zamalek youth team in 1937.
Career edit
Bastan's first official match with Zamalek was against Al Ahly in the 1941–42 Cairo League, and Zamalek won 6-0, with Bastan shining as a center back in the Cairo derby. He won the Egypt Cup with Zamalek in 1941, 1943, 1944, 1952, 1955, 1957 and 1958. He won 10 Cairo League titles in 1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52 and 1952–53. He played with Zamalek for 16 years and was nicknamed the "Black Rock".
He played his first international game with the Egypt national football team in 1945 and participated in the London tournament in the same year. Bastan played 56 international matches annd scored 16 goals. Bastan participated with Egypt in the 1948 Olympic Games in London, then the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, the first 1953 Arab Games in which Egypt won the gold medal. In 1955, he played with his country in the 1955 Mediterranean Games in Barcelona, in which Egypt won the gold medal. Bastan was Egypt's captain in the first Africa Cup of Nations in Sudan, he lifted the trophy of the 1957 African Cup of Nations. Bastan retired from football in 1958.[4][5]
After his retirement, he worked as coach in Zamalek, but he did not last long and left coaching career. In Egyptian Cinema, Bastan appeared in two films, he co-starred in Talk of the City (Hadeeth Al-Madina Arabic: حديث المدينة): 1964 and Goodbye Forever (Wada'n Ela Al-Abad Arabic: وداعاً إلى الأبد): 1976.[6] In the 1960s, Bastan became a senior football adviser in Zamalek, a post which he held until his death in 1995.
Honours edit
Player edit
- Zamalek
- Egypt Cup: (7)
- Cairo League: (10)
- 1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53
- Egypt
- Mediterranean Games: (1)
- Africa Cup of Nations: (1)
Manager edit
- Egypt
- Africa Cup of Nations: (Runner-up)
Filmography edit
- Talk of the City: 1964
- Goodbye Forever: 1976[7]
References edit
- ^ "أعلام وشخصيات مصريه". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "Hanafy Bastan". FIFA. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- ^ "Hanafy Bastan". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ ذكريات وحكايات - ماجدة عاصم - حنفي بسطان. Retrieved 25 April 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "Olympedia – Hanafy Bastan". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
- ^ "حنفي بسطان – ﺗﻤﺜﻴﻞ – فيلموجرافيا، صور، فيديو". elCinema.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "حنفي بسطان – ﺗﻤﺜﻴﻞ – فيلموجرافيا، صور، فيديو". elCinema.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
External links edit
- Hanafy Bastan at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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