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Hanafy Bastan

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Hanafy Bastan
Bastan with Egypt in 1947
Personal information
Full name Hanafy Bastan
Date of birth (1922-01-06)6 January 1922
Place of birth Cairo, Egypt
Date of death 13 November 1995(1995-11-13) (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
Men's football
Representing  Egypt (as player)
Africa Cup of Nations
Winner 1957 Egypt
Arab Games
Gold medal – first place 1953 Alexandria
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1955 Barcelona
Representing  Egypt (as manager)
Africa Cup of Nations
Silver medal – second place 1962 Ethiopia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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] Bastan played for Egypt in the 1953 Arab Games, where Egypt won the gold medal. He was also a part of the team that won the gold medal in the 1955 Mediterranean Games. He was the captain of the team that won the 1957 African Cup of Nations, he is the first Egyptian player to lift the African trophy.

He started his football career in 1938, became a regular player in Zamalek in 1942, he won with the team 18 titles. Bastan was Zamalek and Egypt's captain for several years, he was nicknamed the "Black Rock".[4] After retiring from football, he coached Egypt with Mohamed El-Guindi in the 1962 African Cup of Nations, and Egypt won the silver medal.

Early life

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Hanafy Bastan was born on 6 January 1922 in Sayyidah Zainab District, 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.

Playing career

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Club career

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Bastan (second standing from right) with Zamalek in 1952

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 quickly became a key player in the team. He won seven titles of the Egypt Cup with Zamalek (1941, 1943, 1944, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958). He won with Zamalek ten titles of the Cairo League titles (1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53).

Bastan played with several generations of Zamalek, he played with Mohamed Latif in latter's final days as a player, he also played with Abdel-Karim Sakr, Omar Shendi, Abdulrahman Fawzi, finally he was the captain of the team including Essam Baheeg, Alaa El-Hamouly, Nour El-Dali, Sharif El-Far and Abdou Noshi. He was a key player in the team, he played with Zamalek for almost 20 years, with 16 seasons in the starting lineup achieving 18 titles for his club, he was nicknamed the "Black Rock".[5]

International career

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Egypt's captain Bastan carrying the African Cup of Nations trophy in 1957

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 and scored 16 goals for his country. He was a part of the team that participated in the 1948 Olympic Games in London. He also was a part of the team that participated in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He played for his country in the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, where the hosts finished with a silver medal. He won the gold medal with Egypt in the first Arab Games in 1953.[6]

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 is the first Egyptian player to lift the African trophy after his country won the 1957 African Cup of Nations. He retired from football in 1958.[7][8]

Post retirement career

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Hanafy Bastan
Bastan in 1964
Bastan in 1965

After his retirement, he worked as coach in Zamalek, he also coached Egypt with his long time friend Mohamed El-Guindi in the 1962 African Cup of Nations, and Egypt finished second. Afterwards, he left coaching career. In the 1960s, Bastan became a senior football adviser in Zamalek, a post which he held until his death in 1995. 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).[9]

Honours

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Player

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Zamalek
Egypt

Manager

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Egypt

Filmography

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  • Talk of the City: 1964
  • Goodbye Forever: 1976[10]

References

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  1. ^ "أعلام وشخصيات مصريه". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Hanafy Bastan". FIFA. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Hanafy Bastan". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  4. ^ ذكريات وحكايات - ماجدة عاصم - حنفي بسطان. Retrieved 11 May 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  5. ^ ذكريات وحكايات - ماجدة عاصم - حنفي بسطان. Retrieved 11 May 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  6. ^ "1st Pan Arab Games, 1953 (Alexandria, Egypt)". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  7. ^ ذكريات وحكايات - ماجدة عاصم - حنفي بسطان. Retrieved 25 April 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  8. ^ "Olympedia – Hanafy Bastan". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  9. ^ "حنفي بسطان – ﺗﻤﺜﻴﻞ – فيلموجرافيا، صور، فيديو". elCinema.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  10. ^ "حنفي بسطان – ﺗﻤﺜﻴﻞ – فيلموجرافيا، صور، فيديو". elCinema.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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