Egyptian striker and Liverpool Football Club ace, Mohamed Salah, has emerged the Professional Footballers Association English Premier League Player of the Year.
Announced at the award yesterday, the reigning African Footballer of the Year outshone other nominees like Tottenham’s Harry Kane; Manchester City trio of Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva, Leroy Sane and Manchester United goalkeeper, David De Gea.
Twenty-five-year-old Salah has netted forty-one goals in all competitions and thirty-one goals in the English Premier League this season.
He becomes the first Egyptian to win the award and the seventh Liverpool player to do so, following the bootprints of Terry McDermott (1980), Kenny Dalglish (1983), Ian Rush (1984), John Barnes (1988), Steven Gerrard (2006), and Luis Suarez (2014).
Meanwhile, Leroy Sane emerged young player of the year, ahead of Harry Kane.
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