Hanafy Bastan

Bastan in 1960
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 Mediterranean Games 1955 Barcelona Representing   Egypt (as manager) Africa Cup of Nations 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]} and was the captain of the team that won the 1957 African Cup of Nations.

Early life

Hanafy Bastan was born in 1923 in Sayyeda Zeinab, 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.

Career

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 won the Egypt Cup with Zamalek in 1941, 1943, 1944, 1952, 1955, 1957 and 1958.

He won 10 Cairo League titles in 1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52 and 1952–53. Bastan played with several generations of Zamalek, he played with Mohamed Latif in his last 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 and was nicknamed the "Black Rock".

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 annd scored 16 goals. Bastan participated with Egypt in the 1948 Olympic Games in London, then the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, the first 1953 Arab Games in which Egypt won the gold medal. 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 lifted the trophy of the 1957 African Cup of Nations. Bastan retired from football in 1958. ^{[4] [5]}

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 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. ^[6] In the 1960s, Bastan became a senior football adviser in Zamalek, a post which he held until his death in 1995.

Honours

Player

Zamalek

• Egypt Cup: (7)

  1941, 1943, 1944, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958

• Cairo League: (10)

  1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53

Egypt

• Mediterranean Games: (1)

  1955

• Africa Cup of Nations: (1)

  1957

Manager

Egypt

• Africa Cup of Nations: (Runner-up)

  1962

Filmography

• Talk of the City: 1964
• Goodbye Forever: 1976 ^[7]

References

External links

• Hanafy Bastan at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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