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Mustafa Kamel Mansour (; 2 August 1914 – 24 July 2002) was an Egyptian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Egypt at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He is also notable for being one of the first non-British or Irish players to play in the Scottish leagues.
Mansour also played for Egypt at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Egypt's coach at the World Cup had been a Scotsman, James McCrae, and he may have influenced Mansour's decision to move to Scotland in 1936 to attend Jordanhill College alongside Mohamed Latif. While studying in Glasgow, Mansour appeared for the famous amateur side Queens Park, becoming their regular goalkeeper upon the retirement of Desmond White (future chairman of Celtic) during the 1938–39 season.
Mansour returned to Egypt when the Second World War broke out, where he would later manage former club Al Ahly, as well as become a government minister.
He died in July 2002, at age 87. Only weeks before his death, he had given an interview to BBC Sport on their visit to Cairo in the run-up to the World Cup being held in Japan and South Korea that summer.
Coaching career and later life
In the late thirties, "Tuffy" Mansour as he was known, was a popular adult leader in the 72nd Glasgow Scout Troop.
Categories: 1914 Births, 2002 Deaths, Men's Association Football Goalkeepers, Egyptian Men's Footballers, Al Ahly Sc Players, Egypt Men's International Footballers, Queen's Park F.c. Players, Egyptian Football Managers, 1934 Fifa World Cup Players, Olympic Footballers For Egypt, Footballers At The 1936 Summer Olympics, Egyptian Expatriate Men's Footballers, Expatriate Men's Footballers In Scotland, Al Ahly Sc Managers, Government Ministers Of Egypt, Egyptian Sportsperson-politicians, Scottish Football League Players, Egyptian Expatriate Sportspeople In Scotland, 20th-century Egyptian Sportsmen
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