Al-Ahly and former Egyptian national team Mohamed Barakat revealed many secrets about his career as a player before heading to administrative work, as he confirmed that he had received an offer from Al-Ahly during the era of former club president Mahmoud Taher to work on the Contracting Committee through Alaa Abdel-Sadiq, but he apologized. at that time.
The Egyptian star Mohamed Barakat was one of the former football stars, and he crowned with the Egyptian team the 2006 African Cup of Nations, and was crowned with the golden generation of Al-Ahly with many local and continental titles.
Mohamed Barakat said in TV statements: "I apologized for working in Al-Ahly during the period of Mahmoud Taher's presidency of the Board of Directors due to my association with a contract with one of the satellite channels and my work in the media field. I respect the Ismaili fans strongly and left the Dervishes for financial reasons due to great financial hardship and did not move to Al-Ahly Directly, which made my relationship distinguished with the Dervish fans, because I loyal to them and won the League Championship with them. "
Mohamed Barakat revealed the ideal formation of the Egyptian team in history, and chose Thabit Al-Batal in the goalkeeper, alongside Ibrahim Youssef, Mustafa Younis, Ibrahim Hassan, Rabi` Yassin, Hamada Abdel Latif, Sudanese Abdel-Moneim Shata, Hussam Hassan, Hassan Shehata, Mahmoud Al-Khatib, and Mukhtar Mukhtar.
He stressed that he was hoping to present to the Egyptian team more than what he presented, as he won the 2006 African Nations Championship with him while he did not participate in the 2008 and 2010 tournaments, noting that "the children of the halal" succeeded in signing him and Hassan Shehata, the former Egyptian coach, where they told him that Barakat He evaded the team and is fluent with Al-Ahly in the right-back position
He said that he played with Al-Ahly in the right-back position and was always a way to win during this period, which was established by Hassan Shehata, the idea that he evaded the team, so he was excluded, due to his failure to join the team that he was seeing that there is more than one player fluent in the same position They are entitled to play in this position.