A young boy in a red tracksuit sits on a concrete ledge holding a worn football, photographed in the Al-Gamaliya neighborhood near Bab Al-Nasr, Cairo. The background shows a typical Cairo residential building with ground-floor shops, reflecting the dense urban fabric of historic Islamic Cairo. Street football (Koora Al-Sharea) is a deeply rooted part of Egyptian urban childhood culture, played in alleys and open spaces across city neighborhoods.