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Mohamed Naser Elsayed Elneny (El Nenny ), (born 11 July 1992 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra) is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Swiss side FC Basel in the Swiss Super League. He is right footed. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics playing for the Egyptian U-23 team.

El Mokawloon
El Neny played his youth football with Al Ahly SC. In 2010 he transferred to Al Moqaweloon Al Arab, more commonly known as El Mokawloon in the Egyptian Premier League. During the 2010–2011 season. Elneny advanced and became a regular in the starting team. Following the Port Said Stadium disaster, early February 2012, the Egyptian Premier League was stopped and all subsequent matches of the 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League were postponed. On 10 March 2012, the Egyptian Football Association announced their decision to cancel the remainder of the season. Following the incident Elneny was solely able to play for the Egyptian National team and the National U-23 team.

Basel
FC Basel had been watching Elneny for some time and invited him to their training camp in Estepona from 14 to 24 January 2013. Elneny played his unofficial debut on 18 January 2013 during the friendly match against Steaua Bucureşti, a 1–1 draw. Elneny was able to impress Basel's trainer Murat Yakin during the training camp and on 29 January 2013, it was announced that he had signed a loan contract with Basel up until the end of June 2013. Elneny played his official debut for Basel in the 2012–13 Swiss Super League season on 10 February 2013 in the 3–0 home win against Sion as he was substituted in at half time.

At the end of the Swiss Super League season 2012–13 Elneny won the Championship title and was Swiss Cup runner up with Basel. In the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League Basel advanced as far as the semi-finals, there being matched against the reigning UEFA Champions League holders Chelsea, but they were knocked out, losing both home and away ties, beaten 2–5 on aggregate.

During May 2013 Basel announced that they had taken up the option of signing the Egyptian midfielder on a permanent basis. He signed a four-year contract up-until 30 June 2017.

Egyptian U-23
As explained, following the Port Said Stadium disaster the Egyptian Premier League was stopped and all subsequent matches of the 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League were postponed. Following the incident Elneny was solely able to play for the Egyptian National team and the National U-23 team. The U-23 team's main objectiv was to qualify and play at the All-Africa Games and Olympic Games, and these aims were achieved with effective displays from Elneny. During the association football Men's tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics he played in all four games. The team reached the last eight, but were knocked out by Japan.

Egypt National team
To date Elneney has played 19 games for the Egyptian senior team but has yet to score a goal.