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Egyptians Rising in Japan!

Date: 8-12-2008
Wrote: EP's editor Islam Issa

EgyptianPlayers.com can reveal that two Egyptians - Osama and Ali El-Samni - are currently playing in the Japanese League.


EgyptianPlayers.com found another Egyptian talent towards the east. Osama El-Samni plays for Tokyo Verdy 1969, the former champions of Japan.

El-Samni is now 20 years of age, having been born in Japan on the 29th September 1988 to an Egyptian father. His father is currently a football coach in Japan. He is 175cm tall and weighs around 66kg.

El-Samni wears the number 32 shirt with his team, and has been a member of the first-team for around a year after impressing at youth level, earning him promotion to the senior first-team squad in 2007. This is his second season, and his first full season, in the A team, but he is yet to play. At Under-18 level, he won three Japanese competitions, and plated in the International Soccer Youth Challenge 2005, where he excelled against AC Milan, and scored against Aston Villa.


The player has both the Japanese and Egyptian nationalities, and has been called up for the Japanese U17 and U19 youth teams, and has been dubbed a promising prospect by Japanese fans.

Meanwhile, his older brother, Ali El-Samni, is two years his senior (born November 1986), and was promoted to the first-team with Osama.

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