Mohammed Salah: The greatest achievement of the "King of Egypt" who won the BBC Award for Best African Player in 2018

Egypt's Mohamed Salah won the BBC's African Player of the Year Award in 2018, ahead of Morocco's Mehdi Ben Attia, Senegal's Calido Coulibaly, Ghana's Thomas Thomas and Senegal's Sadio Mani.

Salah is the third Egyptian player and the fifth Arab player to win this award, which allowed him to join the legends of African players such as George Wea, Obedi Pele, Jay Okusha, Didier Drogba and Mohammed Abu Trika.

But what are Salah's achievements to win this award for the second year in a row?

Salah scored 32 goals in the English Premier League in the 2017/2018 season to win the Golden Boot Award in May and the title of Premier League Player of the Year.

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Salah is currently the top scorer in the English Premier League with ten goals, tied with Gabonese player Pierre Aimric Obamyang.

The 26-year-old also led Liverpool to the Champions League final last season after scoring 10 goals, but was injured in that match and lost the title to Real Madrid.

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 beating Napoli in a decisive match, the 13th goal of the season. ex-Roma in the Champions League to become the second-best Liverpool top scorer in the history of the tournament after the club legend, Steven Gerrard.

In 2018, Salah won third prize for the best player after Croatian Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo, becoming the first Egyptian and Arab player in history to be on the final list of the best player in the world.

Salah finished sixth on the list of world players in the year 2018, according to France Football magazine, the highest ranked African player in the Golden Ball since Samuel Eto 's, who finished fifth in 2009.

Internationally, Salah participated in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which was also the main reason for the arrival of the Pharaohs at the World Cup with the goal of qualifying for Congo in the match decisive.

Despite Salah's absence in the opening game of Egypt at the World Cup, he played against Russia and Saudi Arabia and scored two goals in the tournament.

He also led Egypt to qualify for the next edition of the Africa Cup of Nations as the team's goal and became the third-place scorers in Egypt. through history with 39 goals.