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Egyptian Football National Team

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The Egyptian national football team (Arabic: منتخب مصر لكرة القدم‎), known colloquially as The Pharaohs, represents Egypt in men's International association football, and is governed by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), the governing body of football in Egypt. The team's historical stadium is Cairo International Stadium, although they have played at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria during the recent years. In 2019, and during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, the Pharaohs returned to their historical stadium once again after renovations.
The Egyptian national team is the most successful national team in Africa, having won the Africa Cup of Nations a record seven times: the inaugural edition in 1957 and on home soil in 1959, as well as the 1986 edition, 1998, 2006 in Egypt, 2008 and 2010. Egypt has also been as high as ninth in the FIFA World Rankings, making the team one of only three African national teams to enter the world's top ten (the other two are Nigeria and Morocco). Despite their respectable continental record, Egypt has so far made only three appearances in the World Cup (in 1934, 1990 and 2018). The Egyptian team was the first non-European nor American team to qualify for the World Cup.
Egypt is notorious for holding a spectacular continental record yet failing to deliver in the world stage. Their first and second participation was separated by a record high 56 years and 13 days, spanned between 1934 and 1990. Another record Egypt holds is the oldest player to have ever played at the World Cup; goalkeeper Essam El Hadary played at the 2018 FIFA World Cup aged 45 years and 156 days old. Egypt has yet to win a game in the World Cup.