The Egyptian Football Federation (EFA) has decided to open an extensive investigation to determine the circumstances of voting in the "Best" competition, and determine why Egypt's vote was not adopted, while the Egyptian Professional Players Federation denied responsibility for not choosing Salah among the world's top three.

Argentine Lionel Messi was crowned FIFA's "Best" on Monday, with the final list announced by FIFA and Salah in fourth place.

The Egyptian Football Federation said in a statement on its Facebook page on Tuesday that it had sent an inquiry today to FIFA about the incident.

The Federation noted that Egypt had sent two votes to FIFA on 15 August, four days before the expiry of the deadline, and the receipt of the voting form was confirmed by FIFA on the last day of voting on 19 August.

And voted for Egypt captain Ahmed Mohammedi, while taking over the coach of the national team coach Shawki Gharib after the dismissal of the former coaching staff and not to appoint a new technical staff at the time, and were given the votes of Mohamed Salah in the first place in the two choices.

For his part, the president of the Association of Egyptian Professional Players Magdy Abdel Ghani that his association is not responsible for the loss of Salah points in the "Best" award.

Abdel-Ghani said in a statement today that "the Association is the only body responsible for collecting the choices of Egyptian players through the voting forms, and send them to the International Federation of Professional Players to count the best 11 players of the season, and the Association is not responsible for nominating or sending the name of Mohamed Salah to the Federation International Football Association.

He added that "the association does not have a voice, and all its role is to receive the voting forms for the award of the ideal squad for the best 11 players in the world, and the players in the clubs vote through the representatives of the association, and the role of the association is only to collect these forms after the vote of the players of the Egyptian league and league Second degree, and sent to the International Federation which has already been done, and this talk is documented in pictures. "

Salah sparked controversy across the media after he deleted Egypt's name and flag from the box in his Twitter account.

Some considered that Salah retaliated for not voting on him from Egypt after the cancellation of the votes allocated to the coach of Egypt and the leader of their arrival after the deadlines.

Salah later published a tweet confirming his commitment to defend the Egyptian team, refuting all the rumors that have circulated in the last hours.