The leaks from the Confederation of African Football reveal why Salah lost the continent’s best player award

London – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: Confederation internal indiscretions of African Football have unveiled the final standings for the list of the best players in the brown continent, and Senegalese Sadio Mane, who recently moved from Liverpool to Bayern Munich, won the award. According to rumors reported by various press reports, the star Egyptian Mohamed Salah lost the “Golden Ball” award for best African player to Sadio Mane. The reasons for the loss of Mohamed Salah’s Ballon d’Or in Africa, if the rumors are true, are due to the failure to achieve any international results with the Egyptian national team, as reported by the site “Russia Today”. . Egypt, led by Mohamed Salah, lost in final on penalties the African Cup title against Senegal, led by Sadio Mane. The Egyptian national team also lost the opportunity to reach the final of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, after losing to Senegal, also led by Mane. At the level of clubMohamed Salah won the same championships as his colleague Mane, as the two players were in a team. Thus, Mohamed Salah lost the prize for reasons related to the results of the tournaments in which he participated with his country, without considering the illustrious individual successes obtained with Liverpool. The Egyptian star was honored as the best player of the season of the English Premier League, for the second time in his history after winning it in 2018. Mohamed Salah also achieved other individual titles during the season, where he won the award for the best player of the season in the Liverpool team. The Egyptian striker was crowned Premier League top scorer for the third time, alongside South Korean striker Heung-Min Son, Tottenham striker. The Liverpool scorer has also contributed with his team to the competition for the English Premier League and the European Champions League until the end, managing to win the League Cup and the FA Cup with Liverpool. Salah has participated in 51 games with the “Reds” last season, in who scored 31 goals and provided 16 assists, for being the best playmaker in the English Premier League as well as the title of top scorer. According to rumors, the ranking of candidates for the award for the best player on the continent is as follows: 1- the Senegalese Sadio Mane (Bayern Munich) 2- the Egyptian Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 3- the Senegalese Edward Mendy (Chelsea) 4 – Algerian Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) 5- Ivorian Sebastien Haller (Ajax) 6- Moroccan Ashraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain) 7- Cameroonian Vincent Aboubacar (Al Nasr) 8- Guinean Naby Keita (Liverpool ) 9- The Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly (Naples) 10- Karl Toko Ekambi from Cameroon (Olympique Lyonnais). The Confederation awards ceremony of African Football (CAF) for the best in the continent during last season (2021-2022) will be held today, Thursday, in Morocco.

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