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Season Review: Ayman at Malatya/Gencler
Date: 20-6-2005
Wrote: EP's webmaster

Ayman Abdelaziz, a player known of his consistency spent another successful season in Turkey. Ironically, the midfielder never got called for the Egyptian NT.



Most people in Egypt almost forgot the name Ayman Abdelaziz, the former Zamalek midfielder who travelled to Turkey long years ago to join Kocaelispor. The Egyptian midfielder proved himself in the three clubs that he played for in Turkey and always booked himself a place in the first team in each club.

In the previous season, Ayman started as a player of Malatyaspor, the midtable club, and ended the season at Abdel Zaher El Saka's Genclerbirligi. Ayman helped Gencler to get back on track as the club finished the season in the 5th spot in the table despite their awful start.

Ayman started the season while he was suffering from a long term knee injury that kept him out of action for months and prevented him from signing for Trabzonspor. The Egyptian managed to recover from his injury and got back to action after one month from the season's start.

The first game for Ayman Abdelaziz was against Mohamed Gouda's Ankaragücü and he played only for 30 minutes because of his lack in fitness. Soon after that, Ayman returned strong and booked himself a place among the starting eleven of Malatya who kept themselves in the 5th spot in the Turkish Super League table for sometime.


Despite the interest from France and Trabzonspor, Ayman decided to extend his contract with Malatya for one year. It was an unexpoected decision from Ayman at that time but in another unexpected decision, he signed for Abdel Zaher El Saka's Genclerbirligi after the winter break.

With help from Ayman and El Saka, Gencler got back to victories and managed to end the season in a respectable position (5th).

Ayman scored three goals this season, one for Malatya in their cup clash with Gaziantep Buyuksehir Belediyespor and two for Gencler against Ankaragucu.

The player proved to be a solid performer in the last season as he used to do in the previous seasons. However, Ayman is yet to be called by the national team, maybe due to the abundance of players in his position, the anchor man.

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