“The Golden Ball” continues its stubbornness to Mohamed Salah

Fortunately, he continued his stubborn player Mohamed Salah, the top scorer of the Liverpool football team, in the inability to win the Golden Ball award, which is awarded annually to the best player in the world, and presented by the famous French “France Football” magazine, for the sixth time.

The captain of the Egyptian national team won the fourth place in the ranking of the world’s best players for the year 2025, which is the best position to win the award, while the French Othman Dembele won the star of Paris Saint -Germain, the award for the first time in his sporting career, beating his closest Spanish appetizer Lamamal Yamal, and Brazilian Vitina, Barcelona and Saint -Germain stars, respectively.

Salah was on the list of candidates for the prestigious award for the sixth time in his career with the round witch, after the distinguished level he presented with Liverpool last season.

(The Egyptian Pharaoh) led Liverpool to win the Premier League title last season for the 20th time in its history, to equal the record as the most clubs winning the ancient competition with its traditional rival Manchester United.

Salah also monopolized the English Premier League awards last season, sympathy with his amazing performance with the Dutch coach team, Arny Slot, which revived his hopes of achieving his dream of getting the golden ball for the first time.

Salah won the best scorer in the English Premier League for the fourth time in his career in the British stadiums, after scoring 29 goals in the championship, to share the record as the most winning players with the prize with the retired French star Terry Henry, the former Arsenal player, and won the award for the best goal maker in the competition, after he presented 18 decisive pass to his teammates.

In general, Salah contributed 57 goals for Liverpool during 52 games he played with the team in various competitions during the 2024/2025 season.

(The Egyptian King), as the Liverpool fans called the award for the season player from the Premier League, as well as the award for the best player from the British Writers Association, in addition to (Durrat Al Awards) in English football, which is the award for the best player in England, presented by the Professional Players Association, for the third time in his football career, to become the most player in history to receive that award.

On the international level, Salah led Egypt last season to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals, which will be held in Morocco late this year, as the (Pharaohs) team was just around the corner from qualifying for the next World Cup finals, where he needs to obtain only two points from its last two matches in the African qualifiers for the tournament against its host, Djibouti and its guest, Guinea Bissau next month to reserve a seat next month In the World Cup for the fourth time in its history.

Salah was on the list of candidates to win the Golden Ball for the first time in 2018, where he won the sixth place with 188 points, before he got fifth place in the following year with 178.

The Liverpool star won the seventh place in the list in 2021, after it was decided to cancel the award in 2020 due to the Korona pandemic at the time, while the fifth place in 2022 won 116 points, and the eleventh place with only 13 points in 2023, then he missed the prize candidates last year because of its decline in the red team at that time.

Perhaps the opportunity will not be favorable for Salah to obtain the award next year, especially with the establishment of the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, which always plays a fundamental role in determining the identity of the winner of the Golden Ball.

France Football, the Golden Ball winner, selects, based on the vote of journalists worldwide, the reality of one of the 100 best countries in the last classification of the International Football Association (FIFA).

Journalists rely on 3 main criteria for defining the best player around the world, as follows, which are individual performance, team performance, achievements, behavior and sportsmanship (fair play).