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Biography
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly was born 15 June 1992 to the family of Salah Ghaly, in Nagrig, Basyoun, Egypt. he is currently thirty years old. Mohamed Salah is also known as Mo Salah; he is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays the role of forwarder for Premier League club Liverpool and as well captains the Egypt national team.
Mohamed Salah is perceived as one of the best players in the world and amongst the greatest African players of all time, he is known for his finishing, dribbling, and speed. He started playing football at a very young age with friends.
In 2010, Salah started his senior career by playing for Al Mokawloon, and departing in 2012 to join Basel, where he won two Swiss Super League titles.
In 2014, Salah joined Chelsea for an agreed fee of £11 million, but limited gametime led to successive loans to Fiorentina and Roma, who later signed him permanently for €15 million.
In the 2016–2017 season, Salah was a key figure in Roma’s title race against ultimate league winners Juventus, reaching double figures in both goals and assists.
In 2017, Salah signed for Liverpool for a then-club record transfer of £36.9 million.
In his first season, he set the record for most Premier League goals scored (32) in a 38-game season and helped Liverpool to the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final. Salah went on to be an integral player in the club’s Champions League and Premier League title successes the following two seasons and has since also won the FA Cup and the League Cup. Salah has achieved numerous individual accolades, including two PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards, three Premier League Golden Boots, the Premier League Player of the Season, the Premier League Playmaker of the Season, and finished third for the Best FIFA Men’s Player in 2018 and 2021.
He received the 2018 FIFA Puskás Award for his winning strike in the first Merseyside derby of the 2017–2018 season.
In 2011, Salah represented Egypt at youth level before making his senior debut.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, following his outstanding performances he was named CAF Most Promising African Talent of the Year.
However, In the 2017 and 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, he finished as runner-up and was top scorer during CAF qualification as Egypt qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Between, 2017 and 2018, Salah was named CAF African Footballer of the Year.
In 2017 and 2018, Salah won BBC African Footballer of the Year 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 numerous occasions.
| Full Name: | Mohamed Salah |
| Current club: | Liverpool F.C, Egypt national football team. |
| Born: | June 15 1992 |
| Place of Birth: | Nagrig, Basyoun, Egypt. |
| Nationality: | Poland |
| Height: | 6 feet 1 inches |
| Parents: | Salah Ghaly |
| Siblings: | Nasr Salah, |
| Wife • Spouse: | Magi Sadeq, Magi Salah |
| Zodiac sign: Gemini | |
| Children: | Makkah and Kian Salah |
| Occupation: | Football player |
| Net Worth: | $90 million. |
Early Life & Education
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly was born 15 June 1992 to the family of Salah Ghaly, in Nagrig, Basyoun, Egypt. he is currently thirty years old. Mohamed Salah is also known as Mo Salah; he is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays the role of forwarder for Premier League club Liverpool and as well captains the Egypt national team.
He developed into a good player by playing at very tender age with his brother and friends.
Mohamed Salah signed his first contract when he was 14 years old with El Mokawloon, or the Arab Contractors Sporting Club. Salah travelled and spent up to nine hours on the road in order to train with the team in Cairo.
However, he spent only about two hours a day in school because he combines school and football, therefore he had to share the time into two.
Although, eyewitness had it that Mohamed Salah holds a bachelor’s degree from the faculty of commerce in Alexandria.
All trainings and sacrifices he made to be a footballer came to a joyful ending.
By the time he was 19 years old, he was chosen to be a member of the Egyptian national team.
From 2011 to 2018 he scored 34 goals for the Egyptian team.
Personal Life
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly was born 15 June 1992 to the family of Salah Ghaly, in Nagrig, Basyoun, Egypt. he is currently thirty years old.
Mohamed Salah got married to his wife, Maggi Salah, in 2013. Mohamed Salah and his wife Maggi Salah both gave birth to two lovely girls named Makka and Kayan, They were born in 2014 and 2020 respectively. The first daughter, Makka was named in honour of the Islamic holy city of Mecca. Salah is a Muslim and celebrates goals by performing the sujud.
During his goal celebration, Mohammed Salah told CNN, “It’s something like praying or thanking God for what I have received, but yeah, it’s just praying and praying for a win. I’ve always done that since I was young, everywhere.”
During the 2018 Egyptian presidential election, a large number of spoilt ballot papers, possibly more than a million, involved voters crossing out both names and writing Salah’s name instead.
In November 2020, Salah tested positive for COVID-19, which he later came out stronger.
Salah is a philanthropist and has done numerous projects in Nagrig, his hometown where 65% of people live in poverty, he helps his hometown by donating money to help build a school and hospital.
The project which includes the construction of an Al-Azhar institute and an ambulance unit.
According to Salah’s father, in an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, he claimed that his son refused to accept any financial assistance with the project.
During his time in Egypt, Salah’s family was once robbed, although, the thief was later caught and arrested by police, with Salah’s father preparing to press charges against him, but Mohamed convinced him to drop the case. Later on, Salah helped the thief financially, by giving him some money and trying to find him a job, in other to be useful and stop stealing.
In February 2018, following a match against Tottenham, Mohamed Salah donated a replica shirt to young supporter Mohamed Abdel Karim, who was previously pictured wearing a jumper reading Salah’s name and shirt number.
Source had it that, Mohamed Salah has helped more than 450 families by giving them monthly allowances and he also helped the government by giving approximately $300,000 when the country was experiencing an economic crisis.
On 13 August 2022, when a fire broke out at Abu Sefein Church in Giza, Egypt, with 41 people losing their lives as a result. Salah consciencly expressed his condolences on Twitter and made a donation of three million Egyptian pounds to help rebuild the church.
Career
Salah plays a significant role in Basel’s 2012-2013 ‘Swiss Super League Championship’ victory, and an outstanding performance in the Swiss Cup, where they finished as runner up.
In the beginning of the next season, Salah became part of the Basel squad that won the ‘Uhren Cup.’
He performed extremely great against Chelsea in two matches within a few weeks, which made the club interested in him.
In January 2014, he joined Chelsea.
In February 2014, Salah opted for Chelsea in the ‘Premier League’ against ‘Newcastle United’ and scored his first goal against Arsenal in March.
Before the beginning of the 2014-2015 season, rumored had it that Salah could go back to Egypt to complete his mandatory military training, but as it turned out, Salah had met the Egyptian Prime Minister and got himself exempted.
In February 2015, Chelsea loaned him to Italian club ‘Fiorentina,’ which was valid until the end of 2015-2016 season.
On February 14, he made his debut for the club, and at the end of the season, Salah showed his unwillingness to join ‘Fiorentina’ back.
He was interested in joining another Serie A team ‘A.S. Roma’ instead.
In August 2015, he was transferred to ‘Roma’ on loan.
In September 2015, ‘Fiorentina,’ peeved with Chelsea’s breach of contract, filed a case, but it was later settled, and Salah stayed with ‘Roma.’
By the end of his first season for ‘Roma,’ Salah emerged out as the ‘Best Player’ of the Season and also the top scorer with 15 goals.
In 2016, Roma’s management approached him for a permanent deal and he agreed. notwithstanding signing a long-term deal with ‘Roma,’ Salah finds it difficult to resist an offer by ‘Liverpool’ in 2017.
In June 2017, Salah agreed to a long-term contract with Liverpool for 50 million Pound, which was a club record. However, he became Liverpool’s first ever Egyptian player and scored in his debut match against ‘Watford.’ He was named as ‘Player of the Month’ for August by Liverpool fans.
In one of his matches against ‘Watford,’ he scored 4 goals to secure a 5-0 victory for his team. which was his first hat-trick for ‘Liverpool’ and at the end of the season, he was merged as the leading goal-scorer with 36 goals.
Net Worth
Mohamed Salah has worked as a Footballer at Liverpool F.C, Egypt national football team for years now. he has accumulated a satisfactory fortune from playing football. Mohamed Salah has an astonished net worth of $90 million.
Social Media
Mohamed Salah as humble and hardworking as he is discovered that he also has some social media platforms where he can be connected.
- @Mohamed Salah(@MoSalah) is his Instagram handle.
- @Mohamed Salah(@MoSalah) is his Twitter handle.
