For the second time in just 4 years, Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, Liverpool's top scorer, is in the fight for the "The Best" award, awarded by FIFA for the best player of the year.

Salah is competing this time with Argentine Lionel Messi, the star of Paris Saint-Germain, and Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich.

Salah was third behind Croatian Luka Modric and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2018 edition of this award.

Salah dreamed of repeating the achievement of Liberian legend George Weah, who is still the only one outside Europe and South America who was previously crowned the best player in the world in the FIFA referendum, and this was in 1995.

Despite Liverpool's exit empty-handed from all tournaments of the 2020-2021 season, Salah continued his brilliance and brilliance with the team, and even gradually rose his level to the point where he became the player that the "Liver" relied on in most matches.

Salah had effectively contributed to Liverpool's victory in the 2018-2019 Champions League, as well as regaining the English Premier League title in the 2019-2020 season after an absence of 3 decades from the club, while the club came out of all last season's tournaments empty-handed.

Despite this, the numbers and statistics have been witness to Salah's continued brilliance in the ranks of the "Reds";

He became the first player in the history of Liverpool to score at least 20 goals per season for 3 consecutive seasons, as he was the team's top scorer in both the Premier League (22 goals) and the Champions League (6 goals) last season.

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He continued his brilliance and hobby of scoring during the current season, and became the first player since the former famous star Ian Rush to score at least 20 goals for Liverpool for 5 consecutive seasons.

Although the evaluation of the 2021 FIFA Award was limited to the period between October 8, 2020 and August 7, 2021, Salah had other distinctive imprints in the following weeks, including the continued abundance of his goals, especially his hat-trick against Manchester United, which he led Liverpool A 5-0 thrashing win at Old Trafford.

With these three goals, Salah became the first player in the history of Liverpool to shake the nets of opponents in 10 consecutive games, and Salah became the most African player to score goals in the English Premier League throughout history, surpassing the balance of former Ivorian Didier Drogba, who scored 104 goals.

In addition to his brilliance with Liverpool and his distinctive goals that made him the darling of the team’s fans, which ensured him winning the best player award in the fan referendum for the year 2021 and for the second year in a row, Salah resumed his brilliant career with the Egyptian team (grandchildren of the Pharaohs) last March after the conditions of the outbreak kept him away. Corona virus infections from the team’s ranks for some time.

Salah topped the list of the Pharaohs' top scorers in the African Nations Cup qualifiers, and he also passed the balance of former star Hassan El Shazly (42 goals) with the Egypt national team, to become second in the team's top scorer throughout history behind former star Hossam Hassan, who scored 68 goals for the Pharaohs.

And in 2021, Salah was crowned with many individual awards, including the award for the best player in the English Premier League in the BBC referendum, the Golden Foot Award, the Professional Players Support Association award for the best player in England, and the award for the best player in Liverpool of the season. The past in the team players’ referendum, and the award for best player in Liverpool last season in the team’s fans’ poll.