{"id":2938,"date":"2018-12-15T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2018-12-15T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:21:08","slug":"salah-retains-bbc-african-footballer-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=2938","title":{"rendered":"Salah Retains BBC African Footballer Of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been voted BBC African Footballer of the Year for the second time in a row,\u00a0<em>BBC Sport<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old beat Medhi Benatia, Kalidou Koulibaly, Sadio Mane and Thomas Partey to the prize. The Premier League\u2019s player of the year scored 44 goals in 52 games for Liverpool last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling to win again. I\u2019m happy and I would like to win it also next year!\u201d said Salah.<\/p>\n<p>As well as inspiring his club to the Champions League final, Salah scored twice for Egypt at this year\u2019s World Cup, having netted both goals in the match which took his country to the tournament for the first time since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many good moments in 2018,\u201d he added. \u201cThe game against Roma at Anfield (Champions League semi-final first leg) was unbelievable. I\u2019m scoring goals and helping the team to get the points to be top of the league. That\u2019s always a great feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salah said his aim for 2019 is \u201cto win something with the club so everyone is excited\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to push myself every day to help the team win something,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC received more than 650,000 votes this year \u2013 a record for the award.<\/p>\n<p>Salah becomes the first player since Nigerian Jay-Jay Okocha to win in consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea player signed for the Reds from Roma in the summer of 2017. He scored 15 goals and made 11 others for the Italian side in 2016-17 as they finished second in Serie A, their best league placing for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>In a phenomenal start to his Liverpool career, Salah scored 19 goals in his first 24 appearances. He went on to beat the previous record of 31 goals in a 38-game Premier League season shared by Luis Suarez for the Reds in 2013\/14, Cristiano Ronaldo for Manchester United in 2007\/08 and Alan Shearer for Newcastle in 1995\/96.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Barakat (2005) and Mohamed Aboutrika (2008) are the other Egyptians to have won the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been voted BBC African Footballer of the Year for the second time in a row,\u00a0BBC Sport\u00a0reports. The 26-year-old beat Medhi Benatia, Kalidou Koulibaly, Sadio Mane and Thomas Partey to the prize. The Premier League\u2019s player of the year scored 44 goals in 52 games for Liverpool last season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2084,2083],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year-award","tag-mohammed-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}