Gamil El-Zobair was the son of Al-Zobair Pasha, a governor of Sudan and enemy of the famous General Charles Gordon. Gamil’s interests, however, were in football, and he was recruited to Al-Ahly in 1924. There, he won Egypt Cups in 1924, 1925, and 1928, Sultan Hussein Cups in 1925 and 1929, and the Cairo League (predecessor to the Egyptian Premier League) in 1925, 1928, and 1929. He also played for Zamalek during the first half of the 1930s. Internationally, El-Zobair was a non-playing reserve with the Egyptian national team at the 1924 Paris Olympics, but got to take the field at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, where his country was eliminated in the bronze medal match. He later had a career in government service, culminating in his position as General Director of the Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowments).
Egypt