Sherif El-Masri

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|birth_place = Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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|position = Winger

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|youthclubs1 = Wexford SC

|youthyears2 = 2004–2007

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|clubs2 = FC Rouen

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|years4 = 2012–2015

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Sherif El-Masri (born 5 February 1990) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a winger.

Early and personal life

He was born in Scarborough, Ontario to a Tunisian father and a Guyanese mother. His younger sister Mariam is also a soccer player who represents Guyana internationally.

Club career

He began playing for Wexford SC at the age of five. He joined the Toronto Lynx when he was 14. When he was 16, he went to Italy for two months training with FC Matera before he decided to return to Canada to finish his high school diploma.{{Cite web|url=https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Sports/Story/A1Story20130624-431870.html|title=Football: The romantic Sherif El-Masri|first=Hedy|last=Khoo|work=Asia One|date=June 25, 2013}} He played for the Lynx senior team in the Premier Development League in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.uslsoccer.com/teams/2008/roster/22392.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610071851/http://www.uslsoccer.com/teams/2008/roster/22392.html|title=2008 Toronto Lynx stats|work=United Soccer League|archive-date=June 10, 2011|url-status=dead}}

In 2008, he went to France where he joined FC Rouen in the Championnat National 2.{{cite AV media| date = March 25, 2012|title=CANM23: Sherif El-Masri after win over USA|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAuWE9jWPcA&ab_channel=CanadaSoccer|work=YouTube|publisher=Canadian Soccer Association}}

Late in 2008, he went to Singapore for a soccer trial, where he played two games, scoring a hat-trick in the first game. From this trial, he joined Singaporean club Home United in 2009,{{cite web|url=http://www.fourfortwo.com/sg/news/webb-and-el-masri-yearning-singapore-opportunity|title=Webb and El-Masri yearning for Singapore opportunity|date=4 November 2015|access-date=13 January 2017|author=Kenneth Tan|publisher=FourFourTwo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116151657/http://www.fourfourtwo.com/sg/news/webb-and-el-masri-yearning-singapore-opportunity|archive-date=16 January 2017|url-status=dead}} spending the 2010 and 2011 seasons with their senior team.{{soccerway|sherif-el-masri/119749|access-date=13 January 2017}} He then moved to Young Lions, playing for them for the 2012 to 2015 seasons.

International career

El-Masri made three appearances for the Canadian under-23 national team in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://canadasoccer.com/?t=profile&pid=1064|title=Profile|access-date=13 January 2017|publisher=Canadian Soccer Association}} In November 2015 he announced his desire to represent Singapore at international level, subject to receiving a Singaporean passport. He was announced as part of the Guyana senior team's provisional squad in September 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.gffonline.com/golden-jaguars-squad-for-cfu-third-round-games-announced/|title=Golden Jaguars squad for CFU third round games announced|date=15 September 2016|access-date=13 January 2017|publisher=Guyana Football Federation}}