{"id":6632,"date":"2019-09-03T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2019-09-03T23:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T21:28:52","slug":"star-of-the-month-2-2-3-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/?p=6632","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s Pride & Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah, also known as Mo Salah, is still young, but he has already managed to achieve improbable success in his football career. He is nicknamed \u2018The Pharaoh\u2019 by the press and his fans and was given the nickname \u2018Egyptian King\u2019 by Liverpool supporters. The famous clubs of the world wish to get this masterly player. He is best known for his pace, movement, dribbling skills, ball control and clinical finishing. Salah is often nicknamed as the Egyptian Messi for his playing style.<\/em><\/p>\n

Salah was born on June 15, 1992, in Nagrig, Gharbia, Egypt, to average middle class parents. Mohamed wasn\u2019t good at academics which worried his parents. He tried to find the right balance between his academics and football, but he could never improve his academics. Football remained his priority all through his childhood and teenage days. When he wasn\u2019t playing, he was watching football on television. His parents wanted a conventional career for him, but unaffected by his parents\u2019 wishes, Salah kept himself completely engrossed in football.<\/p>\n

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At first, Salah played football just for fun, but he started taking it as a serious career opportunity when he joined a local youth club \u2018El Mokawloon\u2019 in Cairo. It was far away from his hometown and he had to change five buses to reach the academy, which further harmed his academics, but his passion for the game kept him focussed.<\/p>\n

Salah plays as a forward for the Egyptian national team as well as the Premier League club \u2018Liverpool.\u2019 Born and brought up in Gharbia, Egypt, Salah is a gifted footballer since his childhood. He started his career with the youth team of the Egyptian club \u2018El Mokawloon.\u2019 Soon, his transition happened to the club\u2019s senior team in the \u2018Egyptian Premier League\u2019 in 2010. In 2012, he transferred to the Swiss football club, \u2018FC Basel.\u2019 He played an important role in Basel\u2019s victory in the 2012-13 \u2018Swiss Championship\u2019 and the 2013 \u2018Uhren cup.\u2019 In January 2014, he transferred to \u2018Chelsea,\u2019 becoming the first ever Egyptian player to play with Chelsea. Subsequently, he played for \u2018Roma\u2019 and \u2018Fiorentina,\u2019 on loan, before signing a new contract with \u2018Liverpool\u2019 in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Salah agreed to a long term contract with Liverpool for 50 million Pound, which was a club record. He, thus, became Liverpool\u2019s first ever Egyptian player and scored in his debut match against \u2018Watford.\u2019 He was named as \u2018Player of the Month\u2019 for August by Liverpool fans. Salah won the Premier League Golden Boot in his debut season at Liverpool with 32 goals in 36 league games and also became the record scorer for Liverpool for Liverpool in a debut and a single season with 44 goals in all competitions in 2017\/ 2018. He won PFA Players\u2019 Player of the Year, FWA Footballer of the Year, Premier League Player of the Season and Liverpool Player of the Season in 2017\/ 2018. In 2017, he was named the African Footballer of the Year by BBC and CAF and in 2018, he won the 2018 FIFA Puskas Award. Salah could become the highest paid player in Premier League history if he agrees to Liverpool management\u2019s offer where he would receive 22.4 million euros a year, at 430,000 euros a week.<\/p>\n

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The star of the African football got married in 2013 to a girl called Maggi when he was only 21 years old. They celebrated their wedding in their native village \u2013 all the residents of the settlement gathered for the wedding celebration of their idol. The couple has a daughter called Makka; she was born in London in 2014. The name of his daughter \u2018Makka\u2019 was given in honour of the Islamic holy city. Salah is Muslim and he often celebrates his goals by performing sujood. It has become his signature goal celebration.<\/p>\n

In his homeland, Salah has a reputation of a person with a big, kind heart. The young man helps his village in which he had grown up. He built a school there and opened a centre of youth on his own initiative and an indoor football field. The loving couples are also grateful to the sportsman. Salah transfers money for weddings to those who aren\u2019t able to afford themselves a celebration. He also provides financial aid to the Fund of Football Veterans. During his time in Egypt, Salah\u2019s family was once robbed, however, the thief was caught and arrested by police, with Salah\u2019s father preparing to press charges against him. However, Salah convinced him to drop the case. Afterwards, he helped the thief financially, giving him some money and trying to find him a job.<\/p>\n

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Salah is featured in EA Sports\u2019 FIFA video game series: on FIFA 18 he had a rating of 87 and a potential of 90 following his displays for Liverpool. In a 2018 poll by FIFPLAY, a website run and made for the game\u2019s fans, Salah ranked first, ahead of Lionel Messi, on who should be the global cover star for FIFA 19, obtaining 77 percent of the total number of votes.<\/p>\n

Salah has a sponsorship deal with sportswear and equipment supplier Adidas; he wears Adidas X18 football boots. He appeared in an Adidas 2018 World Cup commercial along with other players in the Adidas stable, including David Beckham, Lionel Messi and Paul Pogba and also singer Pharrell Williams. In March 2018, Salah appeared in an advertisement for Vodafone Egypt. Filmed visiting several Merseyside landmarks, the video was originally released in Arabic, but was also translated to English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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