Mohamed Salah Biography; Career Stats of Egyptian Star

Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly popularly called Mohamed Salah or Mo Salah is an Egyptian professional footballer who was born on the 15th of June 1992 in Nagrig, Basyoun, Egypt. His younger brother’s name is Nasr Salah, and his father is Salah Ghaly.

Mo Salah as he is called is the captain of the Egyptian national team and plays for Liverpool Football Club (We Never Walk Alone) in the English Premier League.

His preferred position is Right Wing (RW) but at times he occupies the position of an Attacking Midfielder (AM) or as a Second Striker.

Mohamed Salah is 31 years old, height 175cm, the preferred foot is Left, current market value is $70m and his current rating is 7.97. He wears the 11 jerseys for Liverpool and the 10-jersey number for the Egyptian national team. Mo Salah is known for his speed, dribbling, and tactical finishing in front of a goal.

Mohamed Salah Wife

Mo Salah got married to his beautiful wife Maggi in the year 2013. They have given birth to two lovely daughters, one of their daughters is called Makka born in 2014 and named after the Holy Islamic city of Mecca. The other girl was born in the year 2020 and is called Kenyan.
Maggi (Sadeq) Salah Mo Salah’s wife is a graduate of Alexandria University with a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology.

Mohamed Salah Lifestyle

Mo Salah is a typical Muslim and always shows it to the world through his goal celebration which he performs the Sujud by kneeling and bowing down his head to thank almighty Allah for what he has given him and to help him win the game. Mohamed Salah once jokingly said “Salah in the video game is stronger than the real one” because he likes playing football on his PlayStation.

Mohamed Salah’s favorite food is Koshare, a delicacy made from rice, pasta, and lentils and topped with a variety of options including spiced tomatoes, chickpeas, and onions.

Mohamed Salah is not into politics, but the 2018 Egyptian presidential election saw many people crossing the names of the presidential candidates and writing his name on the ballot papers.

Mohamed Salah’s Playing Style

Mohamed Salah is smart, fast, hardworking with good technique on and off the ball, a tactical player who plays from the right flank, a position that allows him to cut into the box and on his preferred left foot to cause harm to opposition teams. He hardly misses in front of the goalie.

Mohamed Salah is a tremendous and incredible player, so his qualities are compared to that of the Argentina star Lionel Messi. Mohamed Salah never celebrates against any club he has played for in the past.

Mohamed Salah Sponsorships

Mo Salah wears the X18 football boots as part of his sponsorship deal with sportswear and equipment supplier Adidas. Vodafone Egypt in 2018 acquired the services of Mohamed Salah to feature in an advertising video where he was visiting several Merseyside landmarks.

Mohamed Salah Philanthropy

Mohamed Salah always portrays the teachings of Allah by being a cherished giver; Mo Salah has over 450 families on a monthly allowance. He helped the Egyptian government with an amount of approximately $300,000 when the country was in an economic crisis.

Mo Salah has helped build a hospital and school in his hometown Nag Rig. Mohamed Salah donated three million Egyptian pounds to a church for the rebuilding of it after a fire outbreak on the 13th of August 2022. Mohamed Salah is a lifesaver to his community and country.

Mohamed Salah Awards

As talented as he is, Mohamed Salah has achieved a lot for himself apart from the decoration of his team.

In 2012 Mo Salah was named CAF Most Promising Talent of the Year.
Mo Salah was named UEFA Golden Boy in 2012.
Mohamed Salah was the Swiss Super League Player of the Year in 2013.
Mo Salah was El Haddaf Arab Footballer of the 2013,2017,2018.
Mo Salah was AS Roma Player of the season 2015-2016.
Mo Salah was named Best Arab Player of the Year 2016 by Globe Soccer.
Mo Salah was included in the CAF Team of the Year 2017,2018,2019.
Mo Salah was also named in the Africa Cup of Nation Team of the Tournament 2017,2021.
Mohamed Salah was Premier League Player of the Month; in November 2017, February 2018, March 2018, October 2021, and October 2023.
Mo Salah won the Premier League Goal of the Month in January 2021, and October 2021.
Mohamed Salah was named PFA Player of the Month in November 2017, December 2017, February 2018, March 2018, December 2018, January 2019, April 2019, September 2021, October 2021, February 2022, September 2023, and October 2023.
Mohamed Salah was named BBC African Footballer of the Year in 2017,2018.
Mo Salah was named the African Footballer of the Year in 2017, 2018.
Mohamed Salah was named PFA Player’s Player of the Year 2017-18, and 2021-22 seasons.
For the 2017-18 and 2021-22 football seasons Mo Salah was the FWA Footballer of the Year.
Premier League Golden Boat was won by Mohamed Salah in the 2017-2018 season and 2018-2019, and 2021-22 were shared with two other players.
Mohamed Salah was the Premier League Playmaker of the season 2021-22.
Mo Salah won the Premier League’s Goal of the Season 2021-22.
Mo Salah was included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year 2017-18, 2020-21, 2021-22.
Mohamed Salah won the Liverpool Players’ Player of the Season Award in 2017-18, 2020-2021, 2021-22.
Mohamed Salah was PFA Fan’s Player of the year 2017-18, 2020-21, 2021-22.
Mohamed Salah was included in the 2017-18 UEFA Champions League Squad of the year.
Mohamed Salah was named in the ESM Team of the year 2017-18, and 2021-22 seasons.
Mo salah was Onze d’Argent 2017-18.
Mohamed Salah was the Honorary Citizen of the Chechen Republic in 2018.
FIFA Puskas Award 2018 was won by Mo Salah.
FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball 2019 was won by Mohamed Salah.
FSA Player of the Year 2018, 2021 was Mohamed Salah.
Time 100 was won by Mo Salah in 2019.
Mohamed Salah won Liverpool Goal of the Season 2018-19 against Chelsea FC, 2021-22 against Man City, 2022-23 against Man City.
GQ Middle East Man of the Year Award was Mohamed Salahs’ in 2019.
IFFHS CAF Men’s Team of the year 2020, 2021, 2022.
IFFHS CAF Men’s Team of the Decade 2011-2020
IFFHS Best CAF Men’s Player of the Decade 2011-2020 was Mohamed Salah.
IFFHS Best CAF Men’s Player of the Year 2021.
Mohamed Salah was awarded the Laureus Sporting Inspiration Award 2021.
Mohamed Salah won the BBC Goal of Season 2021-22.
Globe Soccer Fan’s Player of the Year 2022
25 Goals achievements in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
Mo Salah was Top 100 Most Influential African by New African Magazine in 2018.
Premier League Player of the Year by Northern Football Awards 2018, 2021.

Mohamed Salah Individual Records

Egypt

Mohamed Salah is the Egyptian all-time highest Scorer in FIFA World Cup history with 2 goals in 2018 shared with Abdulrahman Fawzi.
Mo Salah is the Egyptian all-time highest Scorer in the CAF Africa Cup of Nations qualification with 18 goals.
Highest-scoring player in Egypt’s Football history with club and national team 330 goals.
Mohamed Salah is the Egyptian all-time highest scorer in FIFA World Cup qualification with 15 goals.

Egypt

Mohamed Salah is the Egyptian Highest-Scoring Player in Serie A history 35 goals in 81 matches.

England

Mohamed Salah was the African Player with the most goals (32) in a season 2017-18.
Mohamed Salah has won Most Premier League Player of the Month awards in a single season 3, November 2017, February 2018, and March 2018.
Mo Salah has the most left-footed goals scored in a season 25 goals in 2017-18.
Most teams scored against in the premier league season, 17 teams shared with Ian Wright and Robin Van Persie.
Mo Salaah was the first player to outscore three Premier League teams in a Premier League season West Brom (31), Swansea City (28), and Huddersfield Town (28) in 2017-18.
Mo Salah is the first player to score on the opening day of six consecutive premier league seasons 2017-18 to 2022-23.
Highest scoring African player in Premier League history 149 goals.
Mo Salah has the record for most Premier League goals scored on the opening weekend: 8 goals (shared with Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, and Wayne Rooney).
No Salah holds the record for the most left-footed goals scored in premier league history 119 goals.
The most assists by an African player in the Premier League history is 64 assists.

Liverpool

Most goals in a debut season, 44 goals in 2017-18.
Most European goals in a season 11 goals in 2017-18 shared with Roberto Firmino.
Most games scored in during a single campaign 34 games in 2017-18 by Mo Salah
Most Top-Flight goals in a season by a Liverpool Player 32 goals in Premier League 2017-18 (shared with Ian Rush)
Mohamed Salah is the Fastest Player to score 50 goals for Liverpool in 65 games in 2018-19.
Mo Salah Fastest Liverpool player to score 50 Premier League goals in 69 games in 2018-19.
The most goals in the first 100 appearances overall in Liverpool history were 69 goals.
Most goals in First 100 Premier League appearances in the history of Liverpool 70 goals.
Mohamed Salah is Liverpool’s All-time Top Goal scorer in the UEFA Champions League with 42 goals.
Mohamed Salah is the First Liverpool Player to score 20-plus goals in four Premier League seasons 2017-18, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-2022.
Fastest Liverpool Player to score 100 top-flight goals in the history of the club.
Most Consecutive games a player has scored for Liverpool, 10 games in 2021-22
Mohamed Salah is Liverpool’s All-Time Top Goal scorer in the Premier League with 147 goals.
All-time top goal scorer in European competition history 44 goals for Liverpool.
Liverpool’s highest-ever away goal scorer in the Premier League is 60 goals.
Most consecutive game a player has scored for Liverpool at Anfield in the games 2032-2023 season.
Mohamed Salah has featured on the Guardian’s list of male footballers eight times.

National Team Duties

From June 2010-2011, Mo Salah represented the Egyptian U20, making a total of 11 appearances and scoring 4 times for his side.

Mohamed Salah played for the Egypt U23 team between the years July 2011 and August 2012 made 11 appearances and scored 3 times.

Mohamed Salah got his first call-up to the Egyptian national team in 2011 and has been a constant player for the team. He has made 95 appearances and scored 55 as of now.

Mohamed Salah’s medal with the Egyptian national team was in the 2017, and 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Runner-up.

Mohamed Salah at Liverpool

Mohamed Salah was signed on 22nd June 2017 at the time a club record fee by Liverpool from the Italian Giants Roma initial amount was £36.5m which could rise to £43m.

Mohamed Salah made a total of 324 appearances for Liverpool in all competitions and scored 198 goals still counting.

On 3rd December 2018 during the Ballon d’Or ceremony, Mohamed Salah was ranked sixth place for his outstanding performance since joining the club the previous season.

Mohamed Salah has won the following trophies with Liverpool FC since joining the Premier League club in 2017.

Premier League 2019-20 season.
FA Cup 2021-22
EFL Cup 2021-22
FA Community Shield 2022
UEFA Champions League Winner 2018-19 season and Runner-up in 2017-18 2021-22 seasons.
UEFA Super Cup 2019
FIFA Club World Cup 2019

Mohamed Salah’s Career History

Mohamed Salah started his Professional footballing Career from Youth teams Ittihad Basyoun and Othmason Tanta before his first Senior Professional Career started.

AI MAKAWLOON

Mohamed Salah started his senior career with AI Mokawloon in Egypt in the year 2010-2012 where he starred 38 times and scored 11 goals.

BASEL FC

He continued to Basel in Switzerland following the suspension of the Egyptian Premier League that year. He played in the Swiss Super League from 2012 to 2014 had 47 appearances and scored 9 times.

He won the Swiss Super League title with Basel in the year 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.

CHELSEA FC

A deal reported to be in the region of £11m was agreed with Basel on January 23rd, 2014, for the signature of Mohamed Salah. His move to Chelsea made him the first Egyptian to sign for a London-based Club.

Salah’s Premier League debut was as a substitute against Newcastle United and his first Premier League goal was against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge in a London derby which saw Chelsea crush Arsenal in a 6-0 victory.

In total, Mohamed Salah only scored twice (2) in 13 league appearances and 19 in all competitions due to lack of playing time.

FLORENTINA (LOAN)

Mohamed Salah was loaned out to Florentina on deadline day 2nd February 2015. He featured 16 times in the league and 26 times in all competitions, scoring 9 goals in total.

ROMA (LOAN)

After Salah’s season-long loan at Florentina ended he went back to Chelsea and was loaned to AS Roma in the 2015-16 season.
Mohamed Salah made 34 appearances and scored 14 times for Roma whilst on loan.

ROMA

Mohamed Salah was signed by AS Roma permanently on the 3rd of August 2016 for a transfer fee worth €15m. He made 31 appearances, scored 15 times in league games and 41 appearances, and scored 19 goals in all competitions.

Mohamed Salah helped Roma to a Series A runner-up in the year 2016-17 season just behind winners Juventus with a point difference of four.

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