Ahmed El-Shenawy is a professional footballer from Egypt who currently plays as the goalkeeper for National Team of Egypt and Egyptian sports club, Zamalek SC. He previously played for Al-Masry.
El-Shenawy has been honored with African Youth Championship Best Goalkeeper(2011) and Egyptian Premier League Best Goalkeeper(2014–016).
Premium Sports Agency is the player's agent.
Ahmed El-Shenawy was born on May 14, 1991, in Port Said, Egypt. Regarding his nationality, El-Shenawy is an Egyptian. He has shared the pictures of his father on Instagram.
El-Shenawy's current market value is estimated to be around £1.80million as of January 3, 2018. Currently, he plays in Egyptian Premier League side, Zamalek SC through which he gets paid $70,000 in a year.
However, Ahmed El-Shenawy's net worth and property details are yet to be published.
Ahmed El-Shenawy began his career as a member of the Masry U-19. In 2009, he was promoted to the first team of El Masry. In 2014, he left the club after making 58 appearances.
On July 1, 2012, El-Shenawy was loaned to Zamalek for 2013 season where he made 1 appearance before ending his loan deal.
El-Shenawy was transferred to Zamalek on July 20, 2014, with the transfer fee of £540k to replace goalkeeper Abdel-Wahed El-Sayed.
El-Shenawy is the member of the team that won Egyptian Premier League( 2014–15), Egypt Cup (2012–016 and Egyptian Super Cup(2016). He has so far played 98 for the club since 2014. Some of his popular teammates are Mohamed Ibrahim, Basem Morsy etc.
In 2009, El-Shenawy made his international debut with the Egypt U-20 team with whom he played 8 games.
El-Shenawy then played 21 games for the U-23 squad from 2010 to 2015. He also played 4 games for Egypt Olympics Team in 2012.
On October 8, 2011, El-Shenawy earned his first senior cap under the coach Hany Ramzy in a 3-0 win against Niger, in an Africa Cup Nations qualification.
El-Shenawy has been capped 28 times for his national team. He has represented his national team at International Friendlies, World Cup Qualification and Africa Cup of Nations.
El-Shenawy is substituted by Mohamed El-Shenawy, Essam El-Hadary, and Mohamed Awad in the international games.
On March 23, 2018, El-Shenawy was called up to face Portugal and Greece along with Ali Gabr, Sam Morsy, and Omar Gaber etc. Egpyt lost the match after a brace in the injury time from Ronaldo though Mohamed Salah scored an early goal.
El-Shenawy is a happily married man and blessed son, Adam, and daughter, Tima. He has shared numerous pictures of his wife but hasn’t revealed anything about his wife. His daughter Tima was born in August 2016. His son was born on January 17, 2014.
El-Shenawy is active on Instagram with more than 1.3 million followers and often posts the pictures of his vacation. He stands at 6 feet 2 inch and his weight is about 83kg.
