Pharoahs of Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been shortlisted for The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year award.
Salah was shortlisted in the final three-man nominees that was announced on FIFA’s Twitter handle on Friday.
He will contest the award with current holder Robert Lewandowski and Lionel Messi.
Salah is the Premier League’s top goalscorer so far this season, with 16 to his name, and is arguably in the best form of his life.
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The Egypt star is currently with his national team preparing for the Africa Cup of Nations but has been nominated after a blistering start to the season at club level.
He will hope to land a first ever AFCON title and Egypt’s eight.
They will face the Super Eagles of Nigeria in their first game on Tuesday in Garoua.
The Men’s FIFA Best award is voted for by a jury made up of current men’s national team coaches and captains, one specialist journalist from each territory represented by a national team and fans registered on FIFA.com.
Meanwhile, other categories for the award include: Women’s Player of the Year; Men’s Coach of the Year, which has Pep Guardiola, Roberto Mancini and Thomas Tuchel in contention, Women’s Coach of the Year and FIFA Puskas award for the best goal.
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But really it’s good to be at the center of attention o as a player. Cos even without touching the ball the pressure is already on your opponent on how to handle you… LMAO!!!
I know by now Eguavon and his boys will be sweating on YouTube trying to feed their eyes on every mo sallah’s clip they can lay hands on, even though they will never admit that they are loosing precious sleep over the guy..( why sallah is just relax enjoying his sleep) LMFAO!!!
breaking news! – Odion Ighalo has been finally released by Al Shabab of Saidi Arabia to play at AFCON! He is off to Garoua in northern Cameroun on a private jet. Thanks
Missing pieces in the jigsaw is Victor Osimhen, ighalo has nothing to proof in this tourney, we will definitely miss osimhen for sure.
I would rather suggest a man-marking for salah. And I will assign that task to Awaziem. He is a kind of defender that has bride, and loves to bully as well.
Just like how Tomori does in Milan shirt.
Awaziem has speed and also good on aerial balls aswell.
Just a tweak on how to tame salah.
In conclusion, I sincerely do not see Mo putting up threat in this tournament.
Mark my words.
We the stress over Salah … Salah only plays well with Liverpool , both when it comes to the national team ,Omo Salah na small salah … We should be more concern with those home grown players in Al Ahly ..cos they have played together for long