All you need to know about Mohamed Salah career on football.
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly was born 15 June 1992).
He is commonly known as Mohamed Salah or Mo Salah.
He is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or forward for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Egypt national team.
He is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest African players of all time, he is known for his clinical finishing, dribbling and speed.
Salah made his debut as senior sport career in 2010 playing for Al Mokawloon.
He departed in 2012 to join Basel, where he won two Swiss Super League titles.
In 2014, Salah joined Chelsea for a staggering fee of £11 million according to media reports, but limited gametime led to successive loans to Fiorentina and Roma, who later signed him permanently for €15 million.
In the 2016–2017 season, Salah was a key figure in Roma’s unsuccessful title bid, reaching double figures in both goals and assists.
In 2017, Salah signed for Liverpool for a then-club record transfer of £36.9 million.
In his first season, Salah set the record for most Premier League goals scored (32) in a 38-game season and which propelled Liverpool to the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final.
After forming a formidable attacking trio with Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane soon after the departure of Philippe Coutinho, Salah went ahead to be an integral player in the club’s Champions League and Premier League title successes in the following two seasons, and has since also won the FA Cup, League Cup and FA Community Shield.
He has achieved a number of individual accolades, including two PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards, three Premier League Golden Boots, the Premier League Player of the Season, the Premier League Playmaker of the Season, finished third for the Best FIFA Men’s Player in 2018 and 2021, and finished fifth in the 2019 and 2022 FIFA Ballon according to Wikipedia records.
The young man received the 2018 FIFA Puskas Award for his winning strike in the first Merseyside derby of the 2017–18 season.
In 2023, he became Liverpool’s top Premier League goalscorer, overtaking Robbie Fowler, and became the fifth player to ever score 200 goals for the club.
At international level, Salah represented Egypt at youth level before making his senior debut in 2011.
Following his performances at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was named CAF Most Promising African Talent of the Year.
Since then, he finished as runner-up in the 2017 and 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and was the top scorer during CAF qualification as Egypt qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Salah was named CAF African Footballer of the Year (2017 and 2018), BBC African Footballer of the Year (2017 and 2018), and was selected in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament, 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament and the CAF Team of the Year on several occasions.
In his country, Egypt, he is regarded as a symbol of national pride for his achievements and was named in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2019.
Salah has also been credited for raising the profile of Liverpool among Egyptians.
To Egyptians, Salah is known as the “Fourth Pyramid”.
Favoured across the Arab world, Salah is often known as the “Pride of the Arabs”.
What You Need To Know About His Club Career:
2006-2010: Youth teams.
He started out playing for the youth setups of local teams Ittihad Basyoun and Othmason Tanta.
He told the media that Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Francesco Totti as his childhood idols.
In the year 2006, he joined the youth team of Al Mokawloon.
He was aged 14 after being spotted by a scout who had originally come to watch another child play but was distracted by Salah.
Salah had mostly missed school to make the 3 hour journey to training.
When Salah was 15-years old, he was noticed by then first team manager Mohamed Radwan, who moved him to the senior squad immediately.
He was scheduled to be given a special diet and training program due to his muscles not being fully formed because of his young age.
2010–12: Senior team appearances:
Salah made his senior team debut in the Egyptian Premier League coming on as a substitute on 3 May 2010 in a 1–1 away draw against El Mansoura.
He scored his debut goal for his team on 25 December 2010 in a 1–1 away draw against Al Ahly.
Salah remained a regular player for Al Mokawloon, appearing in every game of the 201.
Other Teams:
He played for Chelsea between 2013–14 as his first team squad.
In 2015, he played for Fiorentina on loan.
He joined Roma in 2016–17 on permanent transfer, Serie A runner-up.
In 2018–19 he won the European champion and second Golden Boot.
In 2020–2021 he joined Liverpool giving it over 100 goal and many records.
In 2022–3023 his contract was extension and European records kept.
