Report: Salah out of competition for the Golden Ball Award

According to a report published on the website "Foot Mercato", the Frenchman Masri Mohammed Salah Wing Liverpool will be out of competition for the Golden Ball Award presented by the magazine "France Football" French.

Salah's early exit with the Egyptian World Cup team without winning, despite winning several individual awards in England, and leads the Premier League scorer with 32 goals .

Salah will not be the only big stars out of the competition: Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi are not expected to win the prize, which they have won since 2008 with five prizes per player.

The result of the World Cup final between France and Croatia should be decisive in determining the identity of the winner: Kilian Mbabé, Njolo Kanti, Rafael Faran and Antoine Grizmann for the final competition, while Croatian Luka Modic remains the favorite. And Ronaldo since 2008, especially if Croatia crowned the World Cup.

There is evidence that the year of the World Cup is crucial in determining the identity of the winner of the Golden Ball, as was the case for Fabio Cannavaro in 2006, Zinedine Zidane in 1998 and Ronaldo in 2002.