** Ismail Youssef Awadallah Mohamed** (born 28 June 1964 in Giza) is a former Egyptian football player. He is currently the assistant manager of the Egyptian Premier League team; Zamalek. Ismail is the youngest brother of two football players; El Sayed and Ibrahim.

Playing career

Club

Youssef spent his entire career with Zamalek, he played from 1983 through 1997. He played a total of 325 matches for Zamalek in both the league and the cup. He won with Zamalek the Egyptian Premier League for four times in (1983-84, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992-93). He also won with his team the Egypt Cup once in 1987-88, and the Egyptian Friendship Cup in 1986. On the continental level, he won with Zamalek four titles of the African Cup of Champions Clubs in (1984, 1986, 1993, 1996), the CAF Super Cup for twice in (1994, 1997), and the Afro-Asian Club Championship twice in (1987, 1997).

International

Youssef played 97 international matches for the Egypt national football team. He scored four goals for his country. Notably, he played in the Egyptian squad that participated in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He played all of Egypt's matches. Youssef also participated in three Africa Cup of Nation tournaments; 1992, 1994 and 1996 editions.

Coaching career

Former Assistant manager of Egyptian national youth team under 20 years Qualified for World Cup & Won African Cup of nations Ismail Youssef coached El Gouna from 2007 till 2010. Ismail joined El Gouna FC after the sacking of Ramadan El Sayed following a disastrous run in the early stages of the competition. He was hired as the head coach of Itesalat after leaving El Gouna in 2010 but resigned 10 months later to join the technical staff of his former club Zamalek SC as the assistant coach to Egyptian coaching legend Hassan Shehata. He was hired as the assistant coach of Zamalek SC with Hassan Shehata, and he took command for only one match against TP Mazembe when Zamalek SC lose by 2 goals, he return to his position as assistant coach with the new manager Jorvan Vieira, leave the club after two matches when the season is finished.

Honours

As a Player

Zamalek

As a Coach

Egypt African Youth Cup of Nations Champion 2003 As assistant manager of Egyptian youth team he qualified for World Cup under 20 years As assistant manager of Egyptian youth team he qualified for African Nation Cup under 20 years