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Egyptian player and Liverpool star Mohamed Salah won the African Footballer of the Year title for the second time at the African Union (AU) football tournament Tuesday in Dakar, capital of Senegal .
"I do not think that for the second year I'm back on the podium," said Salah after winning the trophy.
"I thank my family, my colleagues and all those who have supported me, and I give this award to my country, Egypt."
Salah beat his Senegalese teammate Sadio Mani and Arsenal striker Pierre Emeric Obamyang to become the fourth player to win the trophy twice after Senegalese striker Alhaji Diouf, the Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto & # 39; o and Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure.
Salah scored 32 goals in the English Premier League last season to win the Golden Boot Trophy as tournament winner in May and best player in the competition.
He also led Liverpool to the Champions League final last season after scoring 10 goals during the tournament, but was injured in the first period before sinking 3-1 at Real Madrid.
Salah has already scored 13 goals in the Premier League and is in the standings after Tottenham Hotspur and Obamyang scored 14 goals.
He led Liverpool this season to qualify for the final round of the Champions League after scoring three goals in the group stage, including that of defeating Napoli in a decisive match, the 13th goal of the season. ex-Roma during his participation in the tournament to become Liverpool's second-leading scorer in the history of the tournament after legend Club Steven Gerrard.
In 2018, Salah won the third prize for the best player after Croatian Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo, becoming the first Egyptians and Arabs in history to reach the final list of the best player in the world.
Salah was also ranked sixth in the list of the world's best players in 2018 according to France Football magazine, the highest African player in Golden Ball since Cameroon's Samuel Eto & # 39; o, who finished fifth in 2009.
At the ceremony of the Confederation of African Football (CA), he announced that Nigeria had won the best women's team in Africa.
While Mauritania won the best men's team in Africa after a competition with Madagascar and Uganda.
Desiree Ellis, from South Africa, has been named best leader of the women's team, while Moroccan coach Herve Rennard won the award for best coach of the African team.
Morocco won the best national federation at the ceremony.
The title of the best young player in Africa to the Moroccan player and Borussia Dortmund Ashraf Hakimi.
The African Football Confederation (CAF) announced the finalists list for the African Footballer 's Trophy of the Year 2018, which included Egyptian Mohamed Salah, his Senegalese teammate Sadio Mani and Pierre Emeric Obamyang. ;Arsenal.
Last year, the trio competed before Mohammed Salah was crowned.
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