He was thus the first African football player to score at the World Cup. The Egyptian goalkeeper that day, Mustafa Mansour, later said:
Abdulrahman Fawzi was born in Portuguese Said, and played for both First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Masry and Zamalek South Carolina. He later became the first manager of the Saudi Arabia national football team
He scored twice for Egypt in their 2–4 loss against Hungary, which was the first time (and the only time before 1970) that an African team had competed at the Fédération internationale de football association World Cup. He would have been the first African to score a hat trick at the World Cup (a feat not yet achieved by an African football player up to and including the 2014 World Cup) but his third goal was disallowed.
