Mohamed Salah The King of European Football Breakthrough From Egypt

Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian footballer who plays as an attacker. He played for the Egyptian national team and English club, Liverpool. Thanks to its ever-increasing quality, Mo Salah was transformed into one of the deadliest attackers at the moment.

Mohamed Salah was born on June 15, 1992 in Nagrig, Gharbia, Egypt. As a child, Salah was not very good at academics. Following this, Salah tried to find things that could cover his flaws. He then found his love of football.

The days of the little Mohamed Salah were filled with watching football matches on television. At that time, he idolized several Arab footballers. He continues to hone his ability to play ball.

It is a small mistake not only to play soccer on the field or on quiet streets full of dust, but also in local competitions. One of the competitions he participated in was the Pepsi League, a soccer competition for children.

This competition was held in Tanta City, about 30 minutes by road from Nagrig Village. Although at that time his body was thin and not too tall, Salah was very agile and skillful in playing ball.

His attractive game fascinated a talent scout from Contractors FC soccer club, El Mokawloon, based in Cairo. At that moment, the talent scout immediately offered a contract for Mo Salah. Salah also joined the local club academy El Mokawloon. The short distance from his house made Salah have to change several buses to reach the training site.

To reach the training center from his home, Salah reportedly had to change buses 3 to 4 times and it took about 4 to 4.5 hours, one way.

The training session at the club starts at 15.30 until 18:00. The schedule made Salah only attend school for two hours. He left for school at 07.00. After two hours in the lessons, Salah asked for permission to go to the Contractors FC club training center.

After training, Salah arrived home at around 10 pm. He then eats and rests. One goes through this routine for five days a week.

Adolescence Wrongly discharged for football. A busy training schedule plus a long journey that must be taken to practice makes Salah did not have enough time to play with his peers.

However, he was strong enough for that. Because Salah saves the dream of becoming a world soccer player.

In May 2010, at the age of 18, he began to be appointed to the senior level of the academy's club. At the beginning of his professional career, Salah only played as a substitute. But over time, his game at senior level continued to increase and he made it into the main squad. Around 2012, this Egyptian man was made confused by the Egyptian competition which was stopped due to chaos in the country.

Noted on November 22, 2012, hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrated against the President of Egypt, Muhammad Mursi. Mursi issued a constitutional declaration intended to protect the Constituent Assembly of Egypt from judicial intervention.

This demonstration has caused clashes between members of the Freedom and Justice Party supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and anti-Mursi protesters, with at least seven people killed and hundreds injured.

Because the situation in his country is not conducive, Salah then moved to Europe. At that time, who was willing to offer a contract was a Swiss club, FC Basel. In April 2012, Salah signed a 4-year contract with Basel. In the same year, he immediately debuted by playing in the European Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

In the 2012/13 season, Salah had an important role at FC Basel in navigating the Swiss League and Swiss Cup competitions. In the following season, Salah succeeded in bringing FC Basel to win the title of Uhren Cup.

Despite undergoing a glorious season in the country whose capital is in Bern, Salah never had an unpleasant experience.

It happened in 2013. It was wrong to do what was considered as a mistake by the public in their home country. While receiving the award as the best player of the Swiss League in 2013, he embraced the female presenter at the event and kissed her cheek on the stage.

This is common in Western countries. However, for Egyptians who still hold tightly to Arabic and Islamic culture, what Salah does is clearly not reflecting the attitude of a Muslim. He was also bombarded with criticism, one of which said that the action had embarrassed himself.

Continuing his football career in Switzerland until January 2014, Salah impressed Chelsea's talent scouts and he was willing to move to the London-based club.

In February 2014, Salah debuted with Chelsea against Newcastle United. But in that season, Salah had to return to Egypt to take part in compulsory military service for three years, specifically for young people who turned 20 years and over. This certainly makes the career of a player who is only half a season grazing in England was disrupted.

But finally, the Egyptian government freed Salah from these obligations. Because, there have been talks involving Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, Egyptian National Team Coach Shawky Gharib, and the Egyptian Minister of Higher Education to discuss the issue of compulsory military service.

During the meeting, it was reported that the talks concluded that if he kept calling Salah Salah could have a negative impact on Egyptian football itself. So, it was decided that Salah escaped military service, after being permitted not to follow him.

Continuing his football career, Chelsea loaned Salah to an Italian club, Fiorentina, before finally he began his brilliant career with another Serie A club, AS Roma.

One move was caused by his lack of trust from the coach. He felt not given the opportunity and often sat on the bench.

That was also confirmed by Eden Hazard. The Real Madrid star said that at that time the competition at Chelsea was very tight. And Mohamed Salah is considered not competent enough by the coach to play regularly.

After continuing his career with Wolf of Rome, Salah won the title of best player and top scorer by collecting 15 goals. Following his best performance, in 2016, Roma offered a permanent contract to Mo Salah.

His ability to increase makes several clubs attracted to this Egyptian player. Until right in June 2017, Salah could not refuse an offer from Liverpool. He was then charged with a team based at Anfield with a fee of 50 million pounds.

Joining the Reds made Mo Salah the first Egyptian player in Liverpool's uniform. He scored his debut goal against Watford and was named Liverpool's best player in August 2017.

Wrong as if unstoppable with Liverpool, he successfully won the top scoring title and transformed into one of the most ferocious strikers in the English Premier League, even Europe.

He appeared special in his first season by scoring 44 goals in all competitions. Thanks to his goal kicks, Salah was named the best player of the PFA version of the 2017/18 Premier League.

In the process, he broke a number of records. Mohomed Salah is noted to have joined legendary players such as Ian Rush and Roger Hunt. He is a Liverpool player who has scored more than 40 goals in one season.

In addition, he also became the determining actor for Egypt's national team qualification for the World Cup for the first time since 1990. Not only adored by Liverpool fans, the name Mohamed Salah is also increasingly known throughout the world.

Salah's trip to the Egyptian national team began when he joined the U20 and U23 levels. Until in the end he successfully penetrated the senior level and played at the grand 2018 World Cup.

Not only popular on the field, Salah also has the attitude and noble heart. In 2019, Salah even became one of the most influential Muslim figures of The Muslim 500 version. Salah entered the top 50 Muslim figures in the world by occupying the 46th position. Keep in mind that Liverpool penggawa was entered as a new list.

Even news that was quite astonishing about Salah's presence in the city of Liverpool. Salah's presence in Liverpool was able to reduce the bad stigma against Islam. According to research conducted in May 2019, Islamophobia in the United Kingdom, especially on Merseyside, Liverpool headquarters, is diminishing.

Since Salah joined in June 2017, the record of Islamophobia of Britons towards Islam has decreased to 18.9%.

Not only that, other discoveries can also be seen from the activities of Liverpool fans on Twitter. The study said that fans reduced their anti-Muslim sentiments, which dropped from 7.2% to 3.4%.

Experiments based on the survey also showed that the familiarity of Islam in Britain began to increase. This was also encouraged by the presence of role models such as Salah who had a major impact on the decline of Islamophobia in Britain.

His golden journey was able to become such an extraordinary inspiration. In addition to being influential in the State of Queen Elizabeth, Salah's success has also made him an inspiration for many children in Egypt to work hard and follow in his footsteps.

Salah had hoisted the Egyptian flag in England because his goal scoring had passed through his senior record, Ahmed Hossam Mido, who had scored 22 goals in the Premier League. He is also listed as the first Egyptian player to score three to four goals in one Premier League match.

Despite his achievements and inspiration for children in Egypt, Salah does not want to be a proud person. He still remembers where he came from.

Salah is rumored to have donated part of his income to build the city of Nagrig, where he was born. He built a school to help city residents learn. He also set aside money so he could make a hospital in his hometown.

Not only that, Mohamed Salah also donated his land and built a sewage treatment plant to supply clean drinking water to residents of his village.

When he was married to Magi in 2013, Mohamed Salah invited all the people in his hometown to come to his wedding.

From the fruit of his love with Magi, Salah was blessed with a child named Makka. The child's name itself is inspired by the holy city, Mecca.

One other interesting story is when his house was burglarized by a thief.

At that moment, the father wants to imprison the thief. However, Salah rejected the decision of the father and instead gave some money to those who intended him to be evil.

Salah does not want the thief to continue to commit crimes by giving him money and intends to find work for him.

Today, Salah is the most popular player from Egypt who successfully broke into world football. Although he was less fortunate when he appeared at the international level, Salah was still considered one of the players who would undermine the dominance of two great footballers today, namely Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.