Mahmoud Al-Khatib “Bibo” is the password to the success of Al-Ahly Club in all championships and titles for sports teams in various games after assuming supervision of the club’s football team since 2017.
He created a boom in the level and results of the club after the team was renewed with new players, despite women’s plots and the ugly, malicious war that Turki Al-Sheikh started after withdrawing the “honorary” presidency of Al-Ahly from him due to his interference in administrative matters and trying to impose his opinion and control the decisions of the board of directors, and he continued his delusions and machinations (with Broadcaster Amr Adeeb, known for his fanaticism toward Zamalek) after his loyalty to Zamalek and its president, Mortada Mansour, against Al-Ahly, who insulted Al-Ahly, its fans, and its president, Mahboub Al-Khatib, the man who won 12 African Champions League titles since he was a player in 1982, and then as vice president of the club, Captain Saleh Selim, until his death in London in 1994. Captain Hassan Hamdi assumed the presidency, then the council of engineer Mahmoud Taher, and the return of Captain Mahmoud Al-Khatib as president of the club after massive elections from the General Assembly of the Red Club, Al-Jazeera Castle.
Captain Saleh Selim’s goal was to crown Al-Ahly with the league and Egyptian Cup championships, and he took an administrative decision (in objection to poor organization and arbitration in Africa) preventing Al-Ahly from participating in the African Champions League and the Arab Cup for many years. Al-Ahly wasted many championships that perhaps it could have won and excelled more continentally and locally.
Al-Khatib is the king of the hearts of Al-Ahly and all Egyptians
He succeeded as a player in winning the Best Player in Africa award in 1988, and he also succeeded as an administrator with all merit in winning local, continental and international championships in the Club World Cup.
Crowning Al-Ahly of Egypt with the twelfth African Champions Cup is a great achievement worthy of praise and pride
Because at this level, Real Madrid is competing with the European giant, which is about to win the 15th Cup if it wins the final over Germany's Borussia Dortmund.
12 championships for Al-Ahly in the African Champions League starting in 1982 and captain Mustafa Younes
Until 2024, Captain Mohamed El-Shenawy, in addition to participating nine times in the Club World Cup and obtaining three bronze medals, as well as participating in the 2025 American version.
Captain Ramy Rabiaa Al-Ahly alone won six African Cup championships, which means more than Zamalek Club, only five (less than half of what Al-Ahly won)
The rock legends of Al-Ahly were joined by Wael Jumaa and the stud of the midfield, Captain Hossam Ashour, who deserves honor from the great Al-Ahly club and tolerance for his mistake in the confrontation with Turki Al-Sheikh regarding the matter of his retirement match.
Just as the good relationship between the management and fans of the two clubs was spoiled by Mortada Mansour (who did not play sports at all) before he was removed from the club and the election of Hussein Labib, the sportsman, who opened a new page for rebuilding trust and respect between the two poles of Egyptian football.
Sportsmanship Day
This is why I repeat my proposal to declare the month of February annually as a holiday of sportsmanship by having Al-Ahly and Zamalek clubs play a match for the love of Egypt and allocating its income to veteran players and the families of martyrs and stadium victims.
Al-Khatib is about to turn seventy years old, according to his birth on October 30, 1954
Bebo spent his entire life within the walls of the big house, Al-Ahly Club, and did not play for any other club inside or outside. My statement is that he rejected the tempting offer to play professionally in the Swiss Neuchâtel and its owner, the Egyptian billionaire Kamel Abu Ali, a cinema producer and tourism tycoon, and his many hotels in Egypt (Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh) and Morocco.
To preserve its name and history, it is the same club to which goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary fled to from Al-Ahly
And before him were the two brothers Hassan Hossam and Ibrahim. The legend Mahmoud Al-Khatib also conducted a sophisticated interview with the American CNN channel in which he praised Mohamed Salah, who made his football history in Europe for ten years. He started with his colleague Mohamed Elneny in the Arab Contractors, and they played professionally in Basel, Switzerland, then Rome and Fiorentina, Italy, then Chile and Liverpool. In England, he became the darling of the masses there and they sang his name, the Egyptian King
While in his home country, some absentees are trying to destroy his glory and history, which he built with the Egyptian national team since 2011. He played with them in the African Cups and the London 2012 Olympics, then Rio 2016. He scored in Saudi Arabia during Egypt’s third participation in the 2018 World Cup in Russia after Italy 1934/90.
Al-Ahly of Egypt won the African Championship five years in a row, from 2020 to 2025, except for the 2022 edition in Casablanca. It was a black page, unfortunately, from poor organization and favoritism by Wydad Club due to the influence of Fawzi Lekkaa, President of the Moroccan Federation. I attended this match a year ago in Morocco, in which we lost this cup, and it happened. This is due to the organizational injustice of CAF and the African Union in playing one match for the final in the competitor’s stadium, “Wydad of Morocco,” among its fans, which harmed the principle of equal opportunities and not playing the return match in Al-Ahly Stadium.
Al-Ahly of Egypt is the most decorated in the world
He has 151 local and continental championships, surpassing European giants Real Madrid, Barcelona and South America.
Mahmoud Al-Khatib is the 14th president in the history of Al-Ahly Club since 1907 for 118 years.
While Al-Ahly’s competitors with less history have more than double this number of club presidents
With the expert eye of Captain Al-Khatib and his selection of new competent coaches, including the Swiss Rene Weiler, then the South African Pitso Mosimane, and a short experience from the Portuguese Suarez.
Then, they signed the Swiss Marcel Kohler, who won the hearts of Al-Ahly, along with the Portuguese Manuel Jose
This explains Al-Ahly’s superiority due to administrative stability and the influx of club sponsors and advertisements to the club’s treasuries, which were refreshed after receiving winning bonuses with 36 million dollars for participating in the 2025 Club World Cup (200 billion pounds). It will achieve a huge boom in contracts and construction of club branches and the implementation of the new stadium project. Sundowns match with a humiliating five-player in Johannesburg. 70,000 attended, cheering for the team in the return match, and a large banner was raised along the runway with the words: “You’ve awakened the anger of this devil.” Indeed, the red giant has awakened, and it is difficult for any club in Africa, and perhaps in the world, to break his record and achievements half a century ago.