The International Football Association issued an important statement regarding allowing international players to be present at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which makes the decision to participate players, especially the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, with the Olympic team for only one side, to resolve the debate about the right of the team or player to choose.
The Egyptian team had climbed to the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and the coach of the team, Shawky Gharib, stated that he wanted to include Mohamed Salah in the national team list, but the International Federation confirmed that Liverpool can prevent his star Mohamed Salah from participating with the Egyptian team in the upcoming Olympic Games.
A FIFA spokesman told the Sun: “The Olympics football tournament, in addition to all the Sunni group tournaments, is not included in the FIFA calendar, and therefore the clubs are not obligated to send their players to these tournaments.” FIFA told the English Premier League officials that They can prevent Salah from participating in the Tokyo Olympics, if they want to. ”
The German coach had confirmed on previous occasions that he had not spoken to Mohamed Salah about this issue, as he indicated, on Friday, that he needed "additional information" to decide on allowing his team's star to participate with the Egyptian team in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Klopp said: "We are very clear about what we want, but we need more information: how will the player's participation be, and when the preparation will begin, all these things."