Omar Shendi played all of his career in
Zamalek. He started his career in 1938 and played until 1949. He won with Zamalek the
Egypt Cup for four times in (
1937–38,
1940–41,
1942–43,
1943–44). He also won with his team seven titles of the
Cairo League (the predecessor to the Egyptian Premier League) in (1939–40, 1940–41, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47,
1948–49) and the
King's Cup in (1941). Shendi scored once in the infamous 6-0 win for Zamalek over
Al Ahly in the
1942 Cairo Derby, he also played in the infamous 6–0 win over Al Ahly in the
1944 Egypt Cup final. He retired from football in 1949. Internationally, Shendi was called to represent
Egypt at the
1936 Olympics in
Berlin, but did not see any playing time, as the team was eliminated by
Austria in the group stage. Following his retirement from football, he worked as a football coach, primarily for Zamalek, working as a coach in the youth teams and as an assistant coach for the first team. He also had a stint as coach for
Al-Ittihad of Jeddah in
Saudi Pro League, in 1960. From 1963 to 1965 he managed
Qadsia of
Kuwait and won the
Kuwait Emir Cup. ==Honours==