The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has written
to Fifa for an explanation of its missing votes for
the Best Fifa Men’s Player award.
The EFA says that Pharaohs’ acting coach Shawky
Gharib and captain Ahmed Elmohamady placed
votes for Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah that were not
counted.
Neither are included on the voting breakdown on
Fifa’s website.
Since the awards ceremony Liverpool striker
Mohamed Salah has removed ‘Egypt’ from his
Twitter profile.
His profile now simply reads: “Footballer for Liverpool FC.”
He also posted a Tweet which translates as :
“Whatever they do to try to change my love for
Egypt, they will not succeed.”
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the Best Fifa Men’s
Player award on Monday night ahead of Juventus
forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Salah’s Liverpool
team-mate Virgil van Dijk.
In 2018, Salah came third in the men’s award and
also took the Puskas Award for goal of the season.
Each nation has three voters: the national team
coach, the national team captain and a media
representative.
The EFA say that both Gharib and Elmohamady had
Salah as their first choices in their votes.
The media representative Hany Danial’s choices
were Sadio Mane followed by Cristiano Ronaldo,
with Salah in third place.
This is not the first time that Salah has been upset
with the EFA, following a row last year over his
image rights that saw him threaten to quit the
national team.
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