Mohamed Salah wins African Player of the Year award and Mahrez is the best playmaker

Mahrez and Salah are among the best players in the world today, and the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) announced Sunday that Egypt's Mohamed Salah won the African Player of the Year award for 2021, while the Algerian star Riyad Mahrez won the Best Game Maker Award.

And the International Federation of Football History and Statistics published on its website an image of the Liverpool star, through which it announced that Mohamed Salah had been crowned with the award, which comes among several awards offered by the federation to players from tasks the centers, and also in tasks the continents.

Salah mocks his position in the list of the first players of the Ballon d'Or

Salah is going through a golden period this year, as he scored 21 goals and assisted 9, to contribute a complete of 30 goals, in just the first 22 games of this season with Liverpool, and also ranked second among the best scorers. last season. a goal behind Tottenham striker Harry Kane.

Salah is currently the English Premier League's top scorer with 14 goals, 5 goals ahead of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy.

In the rest of the awards, the Algerian Riyad Mahrez, star of Manchester City, won the award for the best playmaker on the continent, and Senegalese Edward Mendy, defender of Chelsea's lair, the award for the best goalkeeper.