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Hamza Ahmed Abdelghany Selim Khaled (Arabic: حمزة أحمد عبدالغني سليم خالد) (Also Known as Hamza) is an Egyptian football player who plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona at age 33 as a Forward. His father is Ahmed Abdelghany Khaled. He was born on the 28th of March 1990 in Tirah, one of villages of the Dakahlia Governorate in northern Egypt.

He is often considered the best football player Egypt has ever seen, Next to Mohamed Salah, that being because of the large amount of trophies, awards and Achievements he has accomplished across his career, which started in 2005 when he was playing with his boyhood club Al Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League. It was also his pace, quick dribbling and the ability to break down defences with quick and smart moves to create goal-scoring opportunities for himself and his teammates, that made him be regarded as Egypt’s best ever, much like his Egypt teammate Mohamed Salah mentioned earlier. Hamza has played for various clubs around Europe, Starting from when he joined the Spanish club Cádiz CF from Al Ahly for €1,500,000. He joined on a 2 year deal and In the 2006/07 season, He helped Cádiz achieve promotion from Segunda División, The second tier of Spanish football after 12 years of being in the division since the club got relegated from La Liga in 1995.

Early life and talent disovery
Hamza was born to a medium family, his family consisted of 1 older brother and 2 younger sisters. His father worked in a small market in Hamza’s hometown, Tirah, for 14 hours a day. The market made just about enough income to sustain the family. And as Hamza grew up, he naturally started working with his father in the market, he would wake up everyday at about 7 o’clock in the morning, he would open the market and get back home at 5 everyday. But as time progressed, Hamza grew a great passion towards playing football. And instead of going home from the market, he would instead go to his neighbours’ house and play football with the Neighbours’ kids for about 5 hours. he was unarguably the best player everyday in the street, and he became popular amongst the kids of Tirah. At around 10 years of age, Hamza convinced his parents to sign with his Hometown U13 team. He played his first match there against the U13 team of Misr Lel Makkasa SC. The match ended 13-2 to Tirah, with Hamza being outstanding throughout the match, scoring seven and assisting six. It added to the great performance that most of the kids on the pitch were 3 or more years older than him. And after the match, An Al Mokawloon Al Arab scout who happened to have watched the match approached Hamza and asked the little boy if he wants to sign for the club. Hamza’s Parents were more than happy to sign, but they insisted that they wait 4-10 months so that Hamza can prepare to leave the Village alone, because his parents could not afford to go with him. Hamza played his first match with Al Mokawloon on 12 October, 2001. The match ended 5-0 To Al Mokawloon, and he scored all five goals for the team. He continued to play for Al Mokawloon up until 2003, Where an Al Ahly scout noticed Hamza’s talent and agreed a contract which would bring Hamza into the Al Ahly youth system. He played his first match with his new club in 2004, it ended 3-0 to Al Ahly but he failed to score as he came off the bench. It didn’t take long until his youth coach, Hassan Abdelsalam, Decided to immediately raise him to the senior team, and soon after, at only 16, he would come off the bench in a league match against Al Masry for his official senior debut in May 2006.

2006/07
After coming off the bench in the 78th minute, Al Ahly were winning 3–1. Hamza was decent in his debut, making good passes and his positioning was good. Hamza would then start the next three matches on the bench, and on 17 May 2006 in a cup match, Al Ahly were playing Pyramids. Hamza came on in the 81st minute and scored the first goal of his senior career, and the match ended 2–0 to Al Ahly. The match right after that was a league match against Tersana, where Hamza got his first start, despite getting a lot of chances, he was unable to score, and the match ended 1–1. Hamza then started against Simba in the CAF Champions League Quarter Finals, where he scored the winning goal for Al Ahly in a 2–1 win. He also came off the bench in the Egyptian Super Cup Final against his old club Al Mokawloon. He assisted in that match, and Al Ahly eventually won 4–0. In his first season with Al Ahly, He won the Egyptian Super Cup, Finished 2nd place in the league only losing it by 3 points to their Rivals Zamalek SC. Al Ahly also managed to reach the CAF Champions League Semi-Finals in that season.