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Mohamed Salah

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Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian professional footballer who has starred as a forward for Liverpool since 2017, becoming one of the club's most prolific goalscorers and helping it win the Premier League and Champions League. Known for his pace and finishing from the right wing, he captains the Egypt national team and is widely regarded as one of the most celebrated African footballers of his generation.

Facts
Birth Year
1992 1
Birth Date
1992-06-15 1
Nationality
Egyptian 1
Career Highlight
Set the Premier League record for most goals in a 38-game season (32) in 2017-18 while at Liverpool and is the Premier League's all-time top African goalscorer. 1
Classification
Competition Category
Team 1
Connections

Competed In

2012 Summer Olympics, Competitions
Source Wikipedia, Mohamed Salah
Africa Cup of Nations, Competitions
Source Wikipedia, Mohamed Salah
FIFA World Cup, Competitions
Source Wikipedia, Mohamed Salah

Plays

Association Football, Sports
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Egypt, nationality there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Mohamed Salah
Wikipedia
  • Lead sentence, birth date
    Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly (born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger and captains the Egypt national team.
  • Lead sentence, birth year
    Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly (born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger and captains the Egypt national team.
  • Lead sentence, nationality
    Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly (born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger and captains the Egypt national team.
  • Lead paragraph, career highlight
    In his first season, he set the record for most Premier League goals scored (32) in a 38-game season... he is the all-time top foreign goalscorer in the Premier League and the all-time top African goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League.
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly (born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor and captains the Egypt national team.
  • Competed In: Africa Cup of Nations, lead paragraph, competed-in
    Salah was named CAF African Footballer of the Year (2017 and 2018), BBC African Footballer of the Year (2017 and 2018), and was selected in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament, 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament and the CAF Team of the Year on several occasions.
  • Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
    Following his performances at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was named CAF Most Promising African Talent of the Year.
  • Competed In: FIFA World Cup, lead paragraph, competed-in
    Since then, he finished as runner-up in the 2017 and 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, and was top scorer during CAF qualification as Egypt qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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