Rabah Mager: Mohamed Salah deserves the Golden Ball

World football

The legend of the Egyptian footballer Rabah Magar that Egypt's Mohamed Salah and the Liverpool club deserve the award of the "Golden Ball" for the best player in the world for 2019, after winning the title of the Champions League.

"Mohamed Salah won the Champions League title with Liverpool, a great achievement for the Egyptian football, and on that occasion I congratulate the Egyptian people for this achievement," said Rabah Magar in remarks carried by the UAE's Al Bayan newspaper.

"Mohamed Salah is a great and hard-working player, very happy with his success in the repeat of his achievement with Porto, and some consideration of the results of the Egyptian team in the African Nations Cup hosted by Egypt on June 21, I see that Mohammed Salah deserves an award The golden ball".

"Mohammed Salah has the right to dream of winning the Golden Ball award, even if his immediate rival is Lionel Messi, whom I describe as footballers."

Mohamed Salah scored a goal in the 2-0 win over Tottenham in the Champions League final in Madrid on Sunday.

Mohamed Salah is the third Arab player in history to qualify for the Champions League after Algerian legend Rabah Mager with Porto in 1987 and Morocco's Ashraf Hakimi with Real Madrid last year.

Mohamed Salah is also the first player in the history of Egyptian football to score in the Champions League final and the second Arab player after Algerian legend Rabah Mager, who scored with Porto in the Bundesliga against Bayern Munich in the 1987 edition of the continental competition.

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