Surprise...Mohamed Salah is better than Messi in a World League referendum

The players of the German Football League (Bundesliga) preferred the Egyptian Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool star, over the Argentine legend, Lionel Messi, the magician of Paris Saint-Germain, during a referendum conducted by the German “Kicker” magazine to choose the best player in the world for 2021, as he came second behind the Polish Robert Lewandowski, the Bayern striker. Munich, Germany.

The magazine stated that the vote included 234 players, and its results resulted in Lewandowski obtaining the highest vote percentage (43.2%), and Mohamed Salah came in second place (20.5%), then Messi (11.5%), followed by his Portuguese rival Cristiano Ronaldo in fourth place (8.5) Norway's Erling Haaland and France's Kylian Mbappe (4.7%), and his compatriot Karim Benzema (2.6%).

In terms of coaches, Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp won the title of best coach in the world (34.6%), followed by Thomas Tuchel, Chelsea coach (24.8%), and then Spain's Pep Guardiola, Manchester City coach (19.2%).

The "kicker" referendum comes about a month after the announcement of the famous "France Football" award for the best player in the world, which Messi crowned for the seventh time in its history.

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