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Abdelghani finished his career back in his country, first with El-Masry then First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Mokawloon al-Arab.
Abdelghani finished his career back in his country, first with El-Masry then First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Mokawloon al-Arab.
He played most of his professional career, which spanned nearly 15 years, with First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahly and Beira-March
Abdelghani represented Egypt at the 1990 World Cup. Born in Cairo, Abdelghani was a first-team mainstay for several years at local First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahly, before immigrating to Portugal in 1988 at the age of 29, signing with lowly South Carolina (U.S.) Beira-March which he helped always maintain its first division status whilst averaging four goals per season, even though he appeared sparingly in his last year. In 1987, he finished fourth in the race for African Football player of the Year.
Egypt"s National Team of football Joined 1990"s World Cup for its second time in history.
On 12 June, Egypt was playing a match against the Dutch National Team in the 32"s qualifier, during the match Abdelghani scored his historical goal as an equalizer by a penalty shot and the match was finished with a result of 1-1. During Abdelghani"s post career life, he was very proud of his goal as it was the only goal that Egypt scored in the 1990 World Cup.
In media and propaganda, Abdelghani is always very careful about telling the story of his goal against the Netherlands. In Ramadan 2015 Abdelghani appeared in an advertisement of VodafoneEG Communication Company as he making a video call to Hans van Breukelen the GoalKeeper of Holand he scored his goal against him.
During this video call Abdelghani started to make Breukelen remember that goal who appeared suffering from Abdelghani"s continuous talk about that goal.