textarea id="essay_body" class="centerm" style="margintop:105px;height:1174px;">Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer, Liverpool striker and captain of the Egyptian national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his finishing, dribbling and speed. Salah s tarted his senior career in 2010 playing for Al Mokawloon, leaving in 2012 to join Basel, where hewon two Swiss Super League titles. In 2014, Salah joined Chelsea for a claimed fee of £11million, but limited playing time led to subsequent loans to Fiorentina and Roma, who then signed him outright for £15million. euros. In 2017, Salah was the subject of a club-record football transfer when he signed for Liverpool for £36.9million, becoming Egypt's most expensive player of all time. . There, Salah won the Premier League twice, the UEFA Champions League, the Premier League Golden Boot and finished third as the best FIFA men's player in 2018 and 2021.He also holds the record for most Premier League goals scored in a 38-game season and ranks ninth among Liverpool's all-time top scorers.
Internationally, Salah represented Egypt at youth level before making his senior debut in 2011. Following his performances at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was named Most Promising African Talent of the Year of the CAF. Since then, he has finished second in 2017 and the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and was top scorer in CAF qualifying when Egypt qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Salah was named CAF African Footballer of the Year, BBC African Footballer. and was selected in the 2017 Africa Cup Tournament Team of the Year, 2021 Africa Cup Tournament Team of the Year and CAF Team of the Year on several occasions.
Club career
Al Mokawloon
Salah started playing for local youth teams. In 2006, he joined Al Mokawloon's youth team aged 14 after being spotted by a scout who had originally come to watch another child play but was distracted by Salah.He made his first team debut in the Egyptian Premier League when he came on as a substitute on 3 May 2010 in a 1–1 away draw against El Mansoura. During the 2010–11 season, Salah continued to earn minutes on the pitch, eventually becoming a starter in the team. Although he was getting regular playing time, Salah struggled to score. In the locker room after games, he sometimes cried about it, and Radwan says that only motivated him to improve. He scored his first goal for them on 25 December 2010 in a 1–1 away draw against Al Ahly.He remained a regular at Al Mokawloon, appearing in every game in the 2011–12 season. Following the Port Said stadium uprising on 1 February 2012, the Egyptian Premier League was suspended and on 10 March 2012 the Egyptian Football Association announced its decision to cancel the remainder of the season.
Basel
2012–13: Development and breakthrough
Swiss Super League club Basel had been watching Salah for some time, so following the suspension of the Egyptian Premier League, the club arranged a friendly match with the Egyptian U23 side . The game took place on 16 March at the Stadion Rankhof in Basel and, despite only playing in the second half, Salah scored twice, helping the Egyptians win 4–3. Basel then invited Salah to stay in the city for a week of training. On April 10, 2012, it was announced that Salah had signed a four-year contract for Basel starting June 15, 2012.He initially struggled to settle, having arrived unable to speak the language and was signed to replace fan favorite Xherdan Shaqiri. Salah scored on his unofficial debut on 23 June 2012 against Steaua București in a friendly match, a 4–2 loss. He made his official debut for Basel in a UEFA Champions League qualifier against Norwegian club Molde on 8 August, coming on as a 74th-minute substitute. He made his league debut on August 12 against Thun, playing the whole match.
He scored his first league goal a week later, his second in a 2–0 home win against Lausanne. Salah scored his first Europa League goal in the quarter-finals on 11 April 2013, when Basel qualified for the semi-finals by beating Tottenham Hotspur 4–1 on penalties after a 4–4 draw.In semiandlt;/textareaandgt;
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