Alaa El-Din Hassanin El-Hamouly was born on 4 July 1930 in
Cairo. He played in his youth in Al Ahly before joining
Zamalek in the prime of his professional career. El-Hamouly started his professional career in 1949. He played all of his career in Zamalek and was a talented goal scorer. As part of the Zamalek team, he won the
Egypt Cup seven times: in
1952,
1955,
1957,
1958,
1959,
1960, and
1962. While El-Hamouly was on the Zamalek team, they won the
Cairo League three consecutive times (1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53). Zamalek also won the
1959–60 Egyptian Premier League title, the first
Egyptian league title for El-Hamouly's club. He is Zamalek's
all-time top scorer of the Egypt Cup with 23 goals, and Zamalek's
3rd all-time top scorer of the
Cairo derby with 9 goals, after
Mostafa Taha (12 goals) and
Abdel-Karim Sakr (10 goals). El-Hamouly played for almost a decade on the
Egypt national football team. His first international match was in 1950. He and his team represented Egypt at the
1951 Mediterranean Games in
Alexandria and won the
silver medal. El-Hamouly was also part of the team that won the
gold medal at the
1953 Arab Games in Alexandria. His team won the
gold medal at the
1955 Mediterranean Games in
Barcelona, and the
1957 African Cup of Nations and the
1959 African Cup of Nations. He also represented his country in the
1952 Summer Olympics in
Helsinki and
1960 Summer Olympics in
Rome. After his retirement, El-Hamouly worked in the field of football commentary, and he was one of the most prominent football pundits on
Egyptian television in the 1970s and 1980s. He died on 13 January 1984, aged 53, in Cairo. ==Honours==