Bassem Morsy el-Qotb Abdallah (; born 1 January 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Al-Majd. And he owns a football academy called "Bassem Morsy Academy".
Club career Petrojet Morsy played with Petrojet for 4 years scoring 4 goals in 13 matches. Petrojet manager then, Mokhtar Mokhtar, ended his contract with Petrojet stating that Basem became more obsessed with his looks than playing football.
El Entag El Harby Morsy signed with the military club El Entag El Harby in 2013 where he became the star of the club. Although he scored nine goals in the league, he did not succeed of avoiding relegation to the Egyptian Second Division at the end of the season.
Zamalek On 2 July 2014, Morsy signed for Egyptian giants Zamalek from El Entag El Harby. On 25 October 2014, Morsy scored his first goal for Zamalek against Smouha in the Egyptian Premier League. Morsy scored his first hat-trick with Zamalek on 15 July 2015 against Al Nasr. He succeeded in winning the Egyptian Premier League with Zamalek on his first season. He finished the season as the club top goalscorer with 18 goals and second goalscorer in the league after the top goalscorer Hossam Salama. Morsy succeeded in winning Egypt Cup with Zamalek after he scored two goals against Zamalek rival Al Ahly in the final and he repeated it again and scored another two goals against Al Ahly and won the cup again for Zamalek in the next season.
Career statistics As of 23 June 2023 +ClubSeasonLeagueLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotalAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsPetrojet2012–13Egyptian Premier League13420––––154El Entag El Harby2012–130010––––102013–1415921––––1710Total15931––––1810Zamalek2014–15Egyptian Premier League311852––––36202015–16277551141044162016–1724731731035112017–181734010––223Total99351781972013750AEL (loan)2018–19Super League Greece4010––––50Smouha (loan)2018–19Egyptian Premier League6000––––60El Entag El Harby2019–2024800––––2482020–218200––––82Total321000––––3210El Makkasa2020–21Egyptian Premier League241021––––2611Ceramica Cleopatra2021–2233400––31365Ismaily2022–2314100––––141National Bank of Egypt (loan)2022–2312020––––140Career total2527327101975130391
International career Morsy has been called up for Egypt for the first time in 2015 for a friendly match against Jamaica. On 4 June 2014, Morsy made his debut against Jamaica as a substitute and managed to score his first international goal to make it 2–2.Jamaica Egypt Draw 2–2 in London Jamicaobserver.com He celebrated his goal by pointing out to his shirt number 15, and drawing a heart in the air, dedicating the goal to his injured teammate Gedo, who missed the match due to a severe injury, used to celebrate the same way, and used to wear the same shirt.
International statistics . + Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsEgypt201411201555201641201700201800201900Total107
International goals Egypt score listed first, score column indicates score after each Morsy goal.
+ International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competitionNo.DateVenueCapOpponentScoreResultCompetition14 June 2014Brisbane Road, London, England12–22–2Friendly226 March 2015Petro Sport Stadium, Cairo, Egypt21–02–0Friendly314 June 2015Borg El Arab Stadium, Alexandria, Egypt32–03–02017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification46 September 2015Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya, N'Djamena, Chad41–05–12017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification52–065–1729 January 2016Aswan Stadium, Aswan, Egypt72–02–0Friendly
Honours
Club Zamalek Egyptian Premier League: 2014–15 Egypt Cup: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18 Egyptian Super Cup: 2016–17
Individual Egypt Cup Top goalscorer: 2015–16
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