Mohamed Salah wins CAF Player of the Year

CAIRO – 4 January 2018: Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah won the CAF player of the year award, the first such win for Egypt in 35 years.

Mohamed Salah is the second Egyptian player to win this award after Mahmoud El-Khatib, who won the title in 1983.

Liverpool’s Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah was awarded, in Accra, Ghana where the CAF 2017 ceremony was held. He was alongside his Liverpool teammate, Senegal’s Sadio Mane and Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Salah, 25, is arguably the most accomplished athlete in Egypt as of the last three years. As a symbol of success, Liverpool’s right-winger is changing youth’s attitudes and mentalities.

Salah achieved many records this season with the Egyptian football national team and his club Liverpool FC. The talented fast winger helped the Egyptian national team qualify for the World Cup finals to be held next summer in Russia. Egypt had been absent from the World Cup for 28 years.

Salah has had an amazing season with Liverpool, scoring 23 goals for his team, including 17 goals in the Premier League, to be the league’s top goal scorer.

Salah was awarded the EA Sports Player of the Month award in November.

Salah received BBC’s African Player of the Year award and became the third Egyptian to win such an award after Mohamed Barakat, who won the award in 2005, and Mohamed Aboutrika, who won it in 2008.