Learn about Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah Hamed Ghali Taha (born June 15, 1992) is an Egyptian international football player who plays in the right wing of Liverpool and also plays for Egypt's national football team. Is one of the most important Arab and African players, and has won several awards, most notably the African Footballer of the Year Award 2017, [4] the 2017 African Player of the Year Award, [5] 6] Roma Player of the Year Award 2015/2016, [7] Swiss Super League Player of the Year Award in 2013, [8] African Player of the Year Award for 2012 [9] and was selected in the African Team of the Year in 2016. [10] After his move to Liverpool he became the most expensive Arab player [11] [12] and an African throughout history [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] and the most expensive player in club history. [19] His most important achievement for the national team is to win the 2017 African Nations Cup and qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after an absence since the 1990 World Cup. [20]
He began his youth career at the Arab Contractors Club until he was promoted to the first team. [21] He then went on to become an outsider in Europe and joined several major European clubs such as Basel, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Roma and Liverpool. Salah won his first European club Basel with a number of titles, [22] [23] and won the Swiss Super League title for the 2012-2013 season and the Swiss Super League Player of the Year award in 2013. Mohammed Salah joined Chelsea in the Champions League Europe coach Jose Mourinho, who continued with Salah to convince him to join his club and his preference for Liverpool, who sent an offer to join Salah also happened what Mourinho wanted and joined Salah to his team and won with them the English Premier League season 2014-2015 and the League Cup professional English League 2014 But did not participate mainly with the Frei Where he participated throughout the season in 19 games, including 13 in the league scored two goals and therefore thought to move to another club and this was by loan to the club Fiorentina Italian, where he regained his form again and performed well in the Italian Premier League and the Italian Cup and then moved to an Italian club The Italian club of the Italian club Roma and spent one of his best periods with him during the seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17 in the Italian Premier League, the Italian Cup, the Champions League and the European Championships in 83 games in all competitions had a total of 34 goals and 22 June 2017 announced Liverpool Club stayed Coach Jürgen Klopp was joined by Mohamed Salah in a deal worth 42 million euros plus 8 million euros as incentives. [15] [24] [25]
At the international level, Mohamed Salah played for Egypt at the 2011 FIFA World Youth Championship. He was one of the players of the Egyptian Olympic team at the 2012 London Olympics. He won the Brazilian national team and scored in all the group matches. He took part in his first international qualifier for the 2013 African Cup of Nations against Sierra Leone and then participated in the African qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup and the 2015 African Nations Cup qualifiers. Egypt did not succeed in qualifying for any of the three tournaments but Salah was the top scorer for Africa To qualify for the World Cup football 2014, scoring 6 goals in partnership with Asamoah Gyan and Mohamed Aboutrika. [26] After that, the Egyptian team managed to qualify for the 2017 African Nations Cup where Salah was instrumental in qualifying with a draw against Nigeria at home to finish the game with a 1-1 victory over Egypt in the return game 1-0 for Ramadan Sobhi, The Egyptian team reached the final and get second place after the defeat of Cameroon with a score of 1-2 in the final and Salah scored two goals and made two goals in that tournament to be selected in the squad for the 2017 African Nations Cup. [27] He also actively participated in Egypt's qualification for the 2018 World Cup.