Sherif El-Masri

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Sherif El-Masri
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-02-05) 5 February 1990 (age 33)
Place of birth Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [1]
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Wexford SC
2004–2007 Toronto Lynx
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008 Toronto Lynx 5 (0)
2008 FC Rouen
2009–2011 Home United 27 (5)
2012–2015 Young Lions 80 (14)
International career‡
2012 Canada U23 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:59, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:59, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Sherif El-Masri (born 5 February 1990) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger.

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Early and personal life

He was born in Scarborough, Ontario to a Tunisian father and a Guyanese mother. [1] His younger sister Mariam is also a soccer player who represents Guyana internationally. [1]

Club career

He began playing for Wexford SC at the age of five. [1] He joined the Toronto Lynx when he was 14. When he was 16, he went to Italy for two months training with FC Matera before he decided to return to Canada to finish his high school diploma. [2] He played for the Lynx senior team in the Premier Development League in 2008. [3]

In 2008, he went to France where he joined FC Rouen in the Championnat National 2. [4]

Late in 2008, he went to Singapore for a soccer trial, where he played two games, scoring a hat-trick in the first game. [2] From this trial, he joined Singaporean club Home United in 2009, [5] spending the 2010 and 2011 seasons with their senior team. [6] He then moved to Young Lions, playing for them for the 2012 to 2015 seasons. [6]

International career

El-Masri made three appearances for the Canadian under-23 national team in 2012. [1] In November 2015 he announced his desire to represent Singapore at international level, subject to receiving a Singaporean passport. [5] He was announced as part of the Guyana senior team's provisional squad in September 2016. [7]

Honours

Home United

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Profile". Canadian Soccer Association. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  2. 1 2 Khoo, Hedy (June 25, 2013). "Football: The romantic Sherif El-Masri". Asia One.
  3. ↑ "2008 Toronto Lynx stats". United Soccer League . Archived from the original on June 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ CANM23: Sherif El-Masri after win over USA. YouTube . Canadian Soccer Association. March 25, 2012.
  5. 1 2 Kenneth Tan (4 November 2015). "Webb and El-Masri yearning for Singapore opportunity". FourFourTwo. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 Sherif El-Masri at Soccerway. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Golden Jaguars squad for CFU third round games announced". Guyana Football Federation. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2017.


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