Mohamed Salah won the BBC African Player of the year award for the second time in a row! I mean ladies and gentlemen, he is winning hearts, he is winning awards, what’s left to win?
Salah’s expressed his honor to the BBC saying that it feels good to win again and that he hopes to carry on the strike by winning next year as well. You sure know who will be cheering you on that!
The win makes Salah the second African player to win the award two consecutive time, the first player to do so was Nigeria’s Jay-Jay Okocha who won the award in 2003 and 2004.
Salah Also added: “I try to push myself every day to help the team win something.”
Wrapping up some of the achievements that he had done with Liverpool, one is that he led his team to the UEFA championships league final. Second is the 44 goals he scored last season including 32 goals at the league that granted him the Premier League Golden Boot award.
Not to deny the bad start of the season, but Mo Salah was quick to regain his form and scored 10 goals at the league which led his team to Premier League leadership.
Mohamed Salah a star football player is transferring from Liverpool and is willing to join Barcelona. He had been one of the best players in the premier league, is linked to Barcelona in the past, though his deal never came into fruition because the cost was too high. Though his deal expires with liver pool next year, the club needlessly needs to sell him or risk losing him for free. Barcelona considers Liverpool a difficult negotiator though his deal having to consider a deal from Philipe Coutinho. The Catalan team is chasing salah, but is the deal really worth it to him, or not. Mohamed Salah a football player will cost more on just one team in terms of salary, agent fees, and transfer fees. Salah is in negotiation with big teams however Barcelona is not pursuing the option actively as they want to stay on liverpools good terms. Salah is in negotiation with big teams as he continues to search for his deal with several big clubs. All in all salah is rumored to have his deal with many clubs, do you think he should leave Liverpool or not.
Egypt’s squash player Ali Farag won the Optasia Championship title at the Wimbledon Club in London despite a warm-up injury ahead of the match on Saturday, using his victory speech to highlight the discrepancies in sports and politics.
“One more thing that I know is going to get me in trouble, but you know we’ve all seen the what’s going on in the world at the moment with Ukraine and nobody is happy about what’s going,” Farag said.
“Nobody should ever accept any killings in the world, any oppression. But we’ve never been allowed to speak about politics in sports, but all of a sudden now it’s allowed. So, that we’re allowed, I hope that people also look at the oppression everywhere in the world,” he added.
“I mean, the Palestinians have been going through that for the past 74 years and, well, I guess because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the of the media of the West, we couldn’t talk about it, but now that we can talk about the Ukraine, we can talk about Palestinians. So please keep that in mind,” Farag continued.
Farag, World’s No. 2, triumphed 4-11, 11-8, 11-8, 13-11 against World No. 6 Diego Elias at Optasia. His speech was not included in the highlights of the match on the Youtube channel of PSA.
Starting out his story from 2008, he was a player in Zamalek, Abogabal in Egypt Assuit. His real name is Hamad Kotb Abu Gabal Ali, he started his role as a goal keeper since he was a junior player in the youth club of Assuit. In 2008 he started out to play for the ENNPI Egyptian club as a goal keeper, up to 2013. Following the young boy’s passion, it was his dream to play for al Zamalek Club, he stayed there for 3 consecutive years and switched to Smouha at 2019. “According to his father’s advice, he told him the world is always ups and downs, when it’s your turn stay humble”. In 2021 he participated in Egypt’s national team as a goal keeper, he had his chance to shine and succeed in front of the world.