Essam Baheeg

Essam Baheeg

Personal information
Full name	Essam Baheeg
Date of birth	(1931-02-26)26 February 1931
Place of birth	Alexandria, Egypt
Date of death
Place of death	Cairo, Egypt
Position(s)	Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1949–1960	Farouk / Zamalek
International career
	Egypt
Managerial career
1987–1988	Zamalek
1999–2000	Qanah
2000–2001	Sharqiya
	Sohag
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Essam Baheeg (Arabic: عصام بهيج‎‎) (born 26 February 1931 – 4 December 2008) was an Egyptian footballer who played as a winger for Zamalek. He also played for the Egyptian national team, and represented his country and was part of the team that won the 1959 Africa Cup of Nations.

Honours

Player

Egypt

• Africa Cup of Nations: (1)

  1959

Zamalek SC

• Egypt Cup: (5)

  1951–52, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59

• Cairo League: (3)

  1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53

Head coach

Zamalek SC

• Egyptian Premier League: (1)

  1987–88

• Egypt Cup: (1)

  1987–88

• Afro-Asian Club Championship: (1)

  1987

Artistic activity

He appeared at the movie Talk of the City (Hadeeth Al-Madina Arabic: حديث المدينة‎‎) in 1964.