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Egypt star Mohamed Salah won the prestigious BBC African Player
of the Year award on Monday, rewarded for a 2017 packed with
sparkling displays for Liverpool, Roma and his national team.
The 25-year-old topped a poll that saw a record number of votes
cast after firing Egypt to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations
and almost single-handedly taking Egypt to their first World Cup
finals since 1990, scoring five and setting up their other two goals
in qualifying.
Salah, the Premier League’s top scorer with 13 goals, also scored
10 times in all competitions for Serie A club Roma in 2017 before
making the move to Merseyside.
“I am very happy to win this award,” Salah told BBC Sport .
“It’s always a special feeling when you win something. I feel like I
had a great year, so I’m very happy.”
Salah beat a star-studded cast of rivals to become the third
Egyptian to win the award and first since Mohamed
Aboutrika picked up the gong in 2008.
Gabon’s Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang,
Guinean Naby Keita — his future Liverpool team-mate currently
at RB Leipzig — fellow Reds star Sadio Mane of Senegal and
Chelsea’s Nigerian winger Victor Moses lost out to the pacy
attacker, nicknamed the “Egyptian Messi” .
“I want to be the best Egyptian ever so I work hard,” added
Salah, who helped with 15 goals helped Roma to their best ever
points total of 87 as they finished second in Serie A last season.
“I always follow my own way and I want everyone in Egypt to
follow my way.”
Salah joins African legends such as Ivorian duo Didier
Drogba and Yaya Toure — the latter won it twice — as well as
Liberian striker George Weah in winning the award.
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of the Year award on Monday, rewarded for a 2017 packed with
sparkling displays for Liverpool, Roma and his national team.
The 25-year-old topped a poll that saw a record number of votes
cast after firing Egypt to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations
and almost single-handedly taking Egypt to their first World Cup
finals since 1990, scoring five and setting up their other two goals
in qualifying.
Salah, the Premier League’s top scorer with 13 goals, also scored
10 times in all competitions for Serie A club Roma in 2017 before
making the move to Merseyside.
“I am very happy to win this award,” Salah told BBC Sport .
“It’s always a special feeling when you win something. I feel like I
had a great year, so I’m very happy.”
Salah beat a star-studded cast of rivals to become the third
Egyptian to win the award and first since Mohamed
Aboutrika picked up the gong in 2008.
Gabon’s Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang,
Guinean Naby Keita — his future Liverpool team-mate currently
at RB Leipzig — fellow Reds star Sadio Mane of Senegal and
Chelsea’s Nigerian winger Victor Moses lost out to the pacy
attacker, nicknamed the “Egyptian Messi” .
“I want to be the best Egyptian ever so I work hard,” added
Salah, who helped with 15 goals helped Roma to their best ever
points total of 87 as they finished second in Serie A last season.
“I always follow my own way and I want everyone in Egypt to
follow my way.”
Salah joins African legends such as Ivorian duo Didier
Drogba and Yaya Toure — the latter won it twice — as well as
Liberian striker George Weah in winning the award.
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