{"id":489757,"date":"2019-07-24T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=489757"},"modified":"2019-07-24T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:08:08","slug":"aston-villa-mahmoud-trezeguet-hassan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/24\/aston-villa-mahmoud-trezeguet-hassan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa Complete Signing Of Mahmoud &#8216;Trezeguet&#8217; Hassan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League new boys <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa<\/a> have completed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/3ae14ed1\/Trezeguet\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mahmoud Hassan<\/a>, more commonly known as Trezeguet.<\/p>\n<h2>Mahmoud &#8216;Trezeguet&#8217; Hassan Completes Villa Move<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are delighted to confirm the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trezeguet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Trezeguet<\/a> from Kasimpasa for an undisclosed fee, subject to a work visa and international clearance.. \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Full story ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oOgW3wP2Cs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/oOgW3wP2Cs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeTrezeguet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeTrezeguet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AVFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C2QghlFiaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/C2QghlFiaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1153938466952138754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Undisclosed Signing<\/h3>\n<p>Aston Villa have completed the signing of Trezeguet from Turkish side Kasimpasa. The 24-year-old moves to Villa Park for an undisclosed fee, subject to a work visa and international clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Trezeguet began his career with Al Ahly in Egypt before signing for Anderlecht. He then enjoyed a loan stint with Mouscron in Belgium before a switch to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Trezeguet, a common feature of the Egypt national side, has just returned from the African Nations Cup where he made four appearances, scoring once.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old midfielder has one familiar face at Villa Park; Egyptian team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/615ef733\/Ahmed-Elmohamady\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elmohamady<\/a> is a regular feature under Dean Smith.<\/p>\n<h3>Egyptian Influence<\/h3>\n<p>As a result of Emohamady&#8217;s influence, Trezeguet said it was an easy decision to join the Villans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ahmed is a good friend of mine. He&#8217;s like my brother, who I&#8217;ve played in the national team with for five years.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avfc.co.uk\/News\/2019\/07\/24\/trezeguet-on-joining-aston-villa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s my captain and always speaks with me about Aston Villa, saying it&#8217;s an amazing club and that I&#8217;d be happy here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked him a lot of questions. He will help me and believes I will help the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will help having him here with me and I look forward to working with him again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for joining, I&#8217;m happy to be here at one of the biggest clubs around.\u00a0I hope I can help the team to be successful \u2013 I will do my best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to playing in the Premier League \u2013 it&#8217;s a dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dean Smith spoke of his delight at signing the Egyptian national.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to work with \u2018Trez\u2019. I\u2019ve watched him a number of times.&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avfc.co.uk\/News\/2019\/07\/24\/trezeguet-signs-for-aston-villa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the type of wide player that we have been looking for who is direct, causes problems for the opposition in the final third and scores goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"W5XYUyc8S6d5tH_Gt33fQw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/978855574\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'W5XYUyc8S6d5tH_Gt33fQw',sig:'8jY1AwDFfmqMdx4iBMgolsqfN3SQKD5IMCCE0LGKAZs=',w:'594px',h:'412px',items:'978855574',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League new boys Aston Villa have completed the signing of Mahmoud Hassan, more commonly known as Trezeguet. Mahmoud &#8216;Trezeguet&#8217; Hassan Completes Villa Move We are delighted to confirm the signing of @Trezeguet from Kasimpasa for an undisclosed fee, subject to a work visa and international clearance.. \u270d\ufe0f Full story ? https:\/\/t.co\/oOgW3wP2Cs#WelcomeTrezeguet #AVFC pic.twitter.com\/C2QghlFiaw \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":489758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3838,28],"tags":[177,2023,4005,4007,4006,136],"class_list":["post-489757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-aston-villa","category-transfers","tag-aston-villa","tag-dean-smith","tag-egpyt","tag-kasimpasa","tag-mahmoud-trezeguet-hassan","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}