FIFA 13 Review: Egypt’s squad and ratings

Here at King Fut, we’re big fans of EA Sports’ FIFA collection. Having received the 2013 edition a few days early, we’d like to exclusively reveal Egypt’s squad and ratings in the game.

Unfortunately, the 2013 edition is another disappointment in regards to Egypt’s squad selection in the game. EA obviously used the most recent team that featured under coach Bob Bradley (a friendly against Oman) as the foundation of the squad. The team that featured against Oman was a much depleted squad; Ahly and Zamalek both refused to release most of their players to the national team due to their CAF Champions League preparations, Shikabala was yet to be recalled, and most of the European-based Egyptians had to focus with their new clubs during pre-season. The result is a very depleted 3-star Egypt squad in FIFA 13 – consisting of a large portion of Olympic players, who were given senior caps in the friendly after representing Egypt at London 2012.

List of Egypt’s squad and ratings in FIFA 13:

Goalkeepers:

• Essam El-Hadary – 70
• Mohamed Bassam – 62
• Aly Lotfi – 62

No Ahmed El-Shennawy, Sherif Ekramy or Abdel-Wahed El-Sayed, shame.

Defenders:

CB:

• Wael Gomaa – 73
• Ouka – 64 (Ahmed Said ‘Okka’)
• Mahmoud Alaa – 59

LB:

• Sayed Moawad – 66
• Ahmed Samir Farag – 63
• Milo – 60 (Islam Ramadan)

If only Zamalek released Abdel-Shafy (Egypt’s starting LB) against Oman… and apparently Egypt don’t have a right-back.

Midfielders:

CDM:

• Ahmed Fathy – 65
• Ahmed Hassan – 64
• Hossam Hassan – 61
• Mohamed El-Nenny – 60

CM:

• Hosni – 72 (Abd-Rabo)
• Hossam Ghaly – 68
• Hossam Ashour – 61

CAM:

• Mohammed Aboutrika – 77

RM:

• Ahmed Elmohamady – 72
• Basem Ali – 65

LM: 

• Ahmed Magdi – 65

Forwards:

LW:

• Mohamed El-Gabbas – 65

ST:

• Marwan Mohsen – 62
• Ahmed Hassan Mekky – 61

Luckily, this depleted squad can be slightly improved after adding the Pharaohs abroad who never featured against Oman, hence, weren’t included.

Egypt-eligible Pharaohs Abroad in FIFA 13:

• CB – Ahmed Hegazy (Fiorentina) – 65
• CB – Adam El-Abd (Brighton Hove & Albion) – 64
• LW – Mohamed Salah (FC Basel) – 70
• ST – Mido (Barnsley FC) – 69
• ST – Hassan (Rio Ave) – 61 (Ahmed Hassan ‘Koka’)

Mido Egypt’s best striker? I certainly had to recall him. EA also use Salah Soliman’s picture for Ahmed Hegazy, very annoying.

The kits are very similar to the Egypt Olympic teams’ at London 2012, without the Adidas sponsor, though. Red and white home kit (very Arsenal-like) and white and black for away.

Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and South Africa are the other African international teams to choose from in FIFA 13.

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10 Comments

1. 

   Yassin

   October 11, 2012 at 12:50 PM

   Very Annoying and the ratings are so bad .. How come HADARY is 70 ?? review his performance on youtube .. Then Hegazy is 65 and Salah is 70. Wow, who put the standards and evaluations??

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   saif

   November 2, 2012 at 9:14 AM

   hadary must be 75 and mohamed salah 72 and why hegazy 65 he should be at least 70.mahmoud alaa is 59 what is that,make them more than 60 not under and most of the players are not in the squad like amr zaki,shikabala,gedo,Ahmed El-Shennawy, Sherif Ekramy, Abdel-Wahed El-Sayed and the kits are like aresenal and no adidas sign ???????????????? please answer

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     Adam Moustafa

     November 3, 2012 at 11:41 AM

     Unfortunately, we don’t have a say with these ratings..

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3. 

   Sam

   November 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM

   Quite ridiculous how Amr Zaki isn’t in the game

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4. 

   ahmed

   November 15, 2012 at 4:37 AM

   Where are Gedo, Moteab, Zaki, Shikbala, and Zidan?

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5. 

   Ramy

   November 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM

   This is the worst Egypt team in a FIFA game ever!!! I am very annoyed and disappointed. I will now have to create new players and include them manually

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6. 

   mohammed

   January 2, 2013 at 1:56 AM

   How can aboutrika be 77

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7. 

   Lebanon Fan

   January 21, 2013 at 4:44 AM

   It’s pissin me off, Egypt have always bad ratings. Fathi sould be 74 at least , and Hadary 75. Ghaly should be 73 at least !!!! Aboutrika is the only one with the just ratings.. Where is Zidan and Amr zaki ?????? The both have to be upper than 74 … Shikabala ???? 73 at least …

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8. 

   ahmed

   February 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM

   hey man all of these players r in the new update its good but the rating is bad

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9. 

   Ali. Hamidou

   March 25, 2013 at 2:23 AM

   I love the new update, they made ahmed Magdy, bassem ali, and mohamed salah fast. And they made the defense better. But where is amr zaki and Zidan

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