Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly (born June 15, 1992) is an Egyptian footballer. He plays in the right wing position with Liverpool FC in the English Premier League and the Egyptian national team. He is considered one of the most prominent Arab and African players, as he won many awards, most notably the award for the best player in England 2018, the goal of the season in the English Premier League for the 2017-18 season, the award for the best African player for the years 2017 and 2018, the award for the best African player by the BBC for the years 2017 and 2018, Premier League Player of the Year 2018, and Premier League Golden Boot award (Premier League top scorer) in 2018 and 2019. He was chosen by Time magazine in 2019 among the 100 most influential people in the world.
He began his career in the junior ranks of the Arab Contractors Club until he was promoted to the first team, then turned to professionalism in Europe and joined the Swiss club Basel, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Rome, and his current club, Liverpool. Salah achieved with his first European club, Basel, many titles, and he won the Swiss Super League title in the 2012-2013 season, and the award for the best player in the Swiss Super League for the year 2013, then Mohamed Salah joined Chelsea and won the English Premier League title with them in the 2014 season. -15 as well as the 2014-15 League Cup, but he did not participate primarily with the team, then he moved on loan to Italian club Fiorentina, then moved to Roma and participated with him throughout the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons in 83 matches, in which he scored 34 goals.
In 2017, he joined Liverpool in a deal amounting to 42 million euros, in addition to 8 million euros in incentives. At that time, he became the most expensive Arab and African player in history and the second most expensive player in the club's history. He achieved with them a very strong season, as he was chosen 3 times as the player of the month in the English Premier League, and succeeded in scoring 44 goals during one season to become one of the team's top scorers in terms of the number of goals in one season. . In his second season with the team, Salah also succeeded in providing an outstanding level by scoring 27 goals and making 10 goals and contributing to the team's crowning in the European Champions League.
At the international level, Mohamed Salah played with the Egyptian youth team in the 2011 World Youth Championship, then the Egyptian Olympic team in the 2012 London Olympics and won the award for the best young player in Africa for the year 2012. Then he participated with the first Egyptian team and his first international match was during the qualifying 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 Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Egyptian team did not succeed in qualifying for any of the three tournaments, but Salah was the top scorer in the African qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup, scoring 6 goals in partnership with Asamoah Gyan and Mohamed Aboutrika. He was chosen in the team of the year in Africa in 2016. After that, the Egyptian team succeeded in qualifying for the 2017 African Cup of Nations and succeeded in that tournament in reaching the final of the tournament, but they achieved the runner-up position after losing to Cameroon 1-2 in the final and was chosen in the ideal squad for the Cup African Nations 2017. He also actively participated in the Egyptian team’s qualification for the 2018 World Cup after an absence since the 1990 World Cup, by scoring the two goals of Egypt’s 2-1 victory over Congo, a match that ensured his country’s qualification to the World Cup.