Top facts you need to know about Mohamed Salah

Liverpool forward 

, born in Gharbia Egypt on 15th June 1992, is the talk of the football world as his magical performances throughout the season got him many awards.

Mohamed salah's age

is 30. In 2017, he was named the ‘African Footballer of the Year’ after scoring a ton of goals.

The Premier League Player of the Year and Golden Boot winner has scored 171 goals for The Reds up until now.

Plenty of airtime has been dedicated to the Egyptian, who even had a Channel 4 documentary broadcasted about his success; however, there are still plenty of things about the forward that a lot of people aren’t aware of.

The followings are top facts about Mohamed Salah:

The first notable fact about Mohamed Salah is that he scored 44 goals in 52 matches and won the division’s Golden Boot to set a record in his first season at Anfield.

Mohamed Salah’s nicknames

Another interesting 

fact about Mohamed Salah

 is that he has several nicknames in both Egypt and the UK. Salah is fondly known as ‘The Pharaoh,’ while few call him ‘The Egyptian Messi.’ Moreover, Liverpool fans call Salah ‘The Egyptian King.’ Some other nicknames are Muslim Messi, Pyramid Pele, Desert Dalglish, Cairo Cristiano, Halal Hazard, Ramadan Robben, Sand Suarez, and Bearded Maradona!

Mohamed Salah’s favorite actors

Salah likes to watch movies and is a huge fan of Leonardo Dicaprio and Egyptian actor Khaled El Nabawy. He probably wants a career in movies after his retirement!

Mohamed Salah’s favorite food

A fun

fact about Mohamed Salah

is that he loves to eat and when in Egypt, he makes sure the first thing he does is to eat Kushari, a traditional dish of Egyptian cuisine consisting of a base of rice, lentils, and pasta mixed together with garlic vinegar and a spiced tomato sauce. It is then topped with crispy fried onions and chickpeas!

“When I go back to Egypt, I call my friend from the airport to buy Kushari for us to eat in the car. I pull my hoodie over my head, jump into the car and then I’m eating it straight away,” Salah said.

Mohamed Salah's idol, Muhammad Ali Clay

Salah is a huge fan of the American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist, Muhammad Ali Clay. Like Ali, he keeps fighting back against all the odds and has emerged incredibly in the football world. It appears that the commitment to greatness is a feature they both have in common.

Young Salah had to make a nine-hour round journey from his hometown to Cairo, using 10 different buses in total, in order to get to training. He did this five days a week for almost four years!

Mohamed Salah's wife

As one of the most prominent footballers ever, Salah married his long-term girlfriend

, inviting the entire village to his wedding party. Many people joined the couple to celebrate their special day; he even asked Egyptian singers to entertain the people.

This invitation showed how gold-hearted he is welcoming his people and keeping the doors open for his fans to attend instead of inviting a limited number of guests with security guards.

Mohamed Salah's Children

Salah is a very religious man, devoted to his Muslim religion and this is shown by how he always bows down to thank God every time he scores a goal at any match he plays.

Salah named his Daughter Mecca Mohammed after the Holy site in Saudi Arabia called Mecca but later changed the name to Makkah to distinguish it from the name Mecca Bingo which is the world’s biggest gambling Casino!

Mohamed Salah welcomed his second daughter in a British hospital in 2020. The couple named the newborn "Kayan", which is an Arabic feminine name, meaning nature and creation.

Salah's second daughter was born in Liverpool, his first daughter Mecca was born in London in 2014 when her father was a player at Chelsea at the time.

The newborn has got British citizenship and according to British laws, obtaining British citizenship does not mean revoking the nationality of the country of origin, as it will be available for Kayan Salah to possess the two nationalities, Egyptian and British.

Salah's controversial award

Salah was named as the Swiss League Player of the Year while he was at FC Basel. At the awards show, the hostess of the event kissed Salah to congratulate him. The forward was heavily criticized on social networking sites by his Egyptian fans.

“They have spoiled my joy,” Salah told to reporters. “They forgot the prize and concentrated on the lady kissing me.”

Saleh added, “Anywhere I go here in Switzerland people applaud, while my native fans criticize me.”

Salah defeated a presidential candidate

In the 2018 presidential elections in Egypt, more than one million people crossed out the names of the two candidates Sisi and Moussa to cast their ballot for Mohamed Salah and wrote Salah’s name on their ballot paper. Had they been counted as legal votes, Salah would have finished in second place in the electoral race!

Compassion to a thief

Another

fact about Mohamed Salah

is that on December 2017, his family got robbed when he was away playing in a game. Egyptian police caught the thief a couple of days later. His father wanted to press charges but Salah convinced his Dad not to press charges. Instead, Salah gave the thief some money and tried to help find him a job in order to turn his life around.

Mohamed Salah’s net worth and salary

The forward who has spent his youth career with Ittihad Basyoun, Othmason Tanta, and El Mokawloon has a net worth of $70 million.

Mo Salah joined El Mokawloon's senior team from 2010 to 2012 where he scored 11 goals in 38 appearances. He played for Basel from 2012 to 2014 and scored 9 goals in 47 games.

Salah played for Chelsea from 2014 to 2016 and was loaned to

in 2015 and

from 2015 to 2016. He joined Roma full time from 2016 to 2017 and scored 15 goals in 31 caps.

Salah joined

in 2017 and scored more goals there than with any other club. He has also represented Egypt at the under-20, under-23, and senior levels.

Salah has won several awards including the Premier League Player of the Month. He finished 3rd for the Best FIFA Men's Player in 2018 and has set several records.

In July 2018 Mohamed signed a 5-year deal with Liverpool that pays $15 million per year. Talking about

Mohamed salah's net worth

, it should be mentioned that with endorsements, he easily earns $25-30 million per year.

Salah is a quick player

When Real Madrid took on Roma in the Champions League, Salah constantly gave the Frenchman problems with his pace. Although Varane is a very fast player, he was often seen catching shadows when chasing the former Basel star.

According to the Premier League statistics for the 2013-14 season, the former Fiorentina wizard was the quickest player in the league with an average top speed of 20.7 kilometers-per-hour. Now, this might not sound much, but the average means that his collective movements in a game were used to make the calculation.

It means that it took into consideration the time he took standing idle or jogging as well, so that is pretty impressive. Pretty sure that Barry Allen isn’t the fastest man alive, it could just be Mohamed Salah.

The best disciplinary record in the Premier League

Salah’s moral virtues extend onto the pitch too. In league games, he has committed lowest possible fouls. This, however, might have something to do with him being too quick for others to catch up.

Mohamed Salah is a philanthropist

Speaking about

Mohamed Salah charity works

, it should be mentioned that he usually donates a lot of his money to projects in his home village of Nagrig. The forward has invested money into building a new school in the area and he also helped kit out the region’s hospital with the latest medical equipment. Salah also donated $681,500 to a Children’s Cancer Hospital in Cairo so they could buy a bone marrow transplant machine.

After Salah scored the penalty that saw Egypt qualify for this summer’s World Cup, the governor of Gharbiya renamed the forward’s former school the ‘Mohamed Salah Industrial High School’.

Mohamed Salah has inspired many people not just his football fans but every person who desires to succeed in life to overcome obstacles faced and to achieve their goals.

From nothing, he has become the talk of football; his hard work, passion, and dedication have taken him to stratospheric heights in his career, and his simplicity and humility have propelled his popularity.

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