 The coach alerted the club’s president Abdel-Rahman Lotfi Pasha and, at the age of 16, the player was signed up for the team.He quickly became a regular in the first team helping the club to win six titles in the Canal Zone League in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, and 1948, also reaching three Egyptian Cup finals.He was eventually called into the national team for the first time in a friendly game with Hungary in 1947.